“Adidas has never, one time gotten me a basketball player in my 15 years. . . . They don’t promote their schools to recruits. Maybe it’s more because they are a European outfit, but Adidas has never one time directed a player my way.”
— University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino, speaking to The Courier-Journal and other media outlets about the school’s sticking with a five-year endorsement contract where Adidas pays U of L a combined $39 million.
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The contract helps pay Pitino’s huge annual salary: $5.1 million next year vs. $4.4 million this year. He’s also due $7.5 million in retention bonuses kicking in every three years starting in 2017. All told, his 10-year contract is worth $50.9 million in salary, according to the CJ.
“We never have gone to one of these parties because we’re usually stressing the night before. This year, we’re just relaxed, chilled and enjoying the moment.”
— celebrated white-haired horse trainer Bob Baffert, speaking to The Courier-Journal about attending the first Vanity Fair derby party at 21c Museum Hotel Friday night.
At $200,000 per “date,” The New York Timessays today, the Triple Crown-winner’s earning owners Ashford Stud up to $600,000 a day — a $30 million annual haul — over the course of the five-month breeding season. The story is by long-time racing writer Joe Drape, whose book about the horse was published late last month; that’s the cover, left.
We’re talking about the 143rd Kentucky Derby, of course! That’s according to our exclusive 2017 Derby Countdown Clock™.
“Adidas has never, one time gotten me a basketball player in my 15 years. . . . They don’t promote their schools to recruits. Maybe it’s more because they are a European outfit, but Adidas has never one time directed a player my way.”
At $200,000 per “date,” The New York Times says today, the Triple Crown-winner’s earning owners Ashford Stud up to $600,000 a day — a $30 million annual haul — over the course of the five-month breeding season. The story is by long-time racing writer Joe Drape, whose book about the horse was published late last month; that’s the cover, left.
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