In testimony at Karen Sypher's extortion trial, University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino swore Wednesday that he did not rape Sypher in 2003 or force her to have an abortion. "I could never rape a woman," Pitino told the jury. "I could never be physically harmful to a woman." Sypher had sex with the married Pitino in July 2003, claims she got pregnant and he paid for her abortion, married Pitino's assistant Tim Sypher and allegedly tried to extort $10 million from the coach. All for a 15-second encounter.
