Papa John paid $250,000 dollars to regain his beloved Camaro. John Schnatter sold the gold-and-black 1971 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 for $2,800 in 1983. The money helped save his father’s tavern in Jeffersonville, Ind., and he used the rest to start what would become a worldwide pizza business.

The popular pizza franchise owner was so desperate to find his muscle car he started a web site dedicated to the search and offered a 250K reward.

He didn’t have to look far as the car only changed hands twice and was still in Kentucky, where Papa John’s headquarters is located in Lousville.

The original buyers found out about the search after Schnatter spoke before an NFL game about the search for his old car. An online search led them to the car blog Jalopnik, which has followed the search and tipped off Papa John’s.

Robinson, who bought the car about five years ago for $4,000, recently delivered the Camaro to Schnatter, earning the $250,000 reward. The original buyers will get $25,000 for their help tracking it down.

The Solheim Cup is a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers contested by teams representing the best of Europe. It is named for the Norwegian-American golf club manufacturer Karsten Solheim, who was a driving force behind its creation.The US team is selected by a points system, with American players on the LPGA Tour receiving points for each top-twenty finish on tour. For the European team, up to 2005, only seven players were selected on a points system based on results on the Ladies European Tour (LET).

Here are the pairing for the tournament:

Suzann Pettersen
Paula Creamer

Becky Brewerton
Angela Stanford

Helen Alfredsson
Michelle Wie

Laura Davies
Brittany Lang

Gwladys Nocera
Juli Inkster

Catriona Matthew
Kristy McPherson

Sophie Gustafson
Brittany Lincicome

Diana Luna
Nicole Castrale

Tania Elosegui
Christina Kim

Maria Hjorth
Cristie Kerr

Anna Nordqvist
Morgan Pressel

Janice Moodie
Natalie Gulbis

Louisville University basketball coach Rick Pitino told law enforcement he had sex with, and paid for an abortion for, his girlfriend named Karen Sypher.

Pitino is not charged with any crime as a result. On the contrary, he came forward to accuse Sypher (pictured above) of attempting to extort $10 million from him.

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports Pitino admits he was drinking and had sex with Karen Sypher in 2003, and gave her $3,000 for an abortion.

Only a month ago, Sypher filed a report alleging the 2003 rape, but Pitino’s attorney said, “Karen Sypher is indicted for extortion. The commonwealth’s attorney has said [Sypher] is void of any credibility on these 6-year-old allegations.”

Sypher only made the rape allegations after being indicted. Prosecutors who have reviewed Sypher’s claims say Pitino, 56, won’t be charged.

According to ABC News, Tim Sypher worked as Pitino’s personal assistant with the Boston Celtics from 1997-2001, and followed him to Louisville in 2001.

The criminal complaint filed in the case claims Tim Sypher gave Pitino a list of written demands from his wife, which included college tuition for her kids, money to pay off their house, two cars, and $3,000 … later increasing to $10 million.

Karen Sypher pleaded not guilty to the charges of attempting to extort $10 million from Rick Pitino, who has been married to his wife Joanne for 30 years.

Sypher, 49, a blond stunner who used to model, met Pitino in a restaurant on August 1, 2003. He claimed Sypher walked up to him early in the evening and asked if he would call one of her sons, which Pitino said he did.

Rick Pitino said that Sypher left and returned about closing time. After the restaurant closed, Sypher “started coming on to him and that they had sex.”

Rape allegations surfaced much later, but police found several descrepnecies and no evidence that anything other than a consensual encounter occurred.

John Wall the star recruit for the Kentucky Wildcats dunked over Jerry Stackhouse during a basketball camp. The young riser made the veteran from the Mavericks look horrible when he dunked in his face.

Sure it wasn’t as bad as Lebron James getting dunked on due to Stackhouse being over the hill.

Here is the video:

The world is in a state of panic! Twitter is down!

I just find it hilarious how Twitter performs a 30 min maintanence and everyone freaks out that they can’t tweet and lose their composure. They treat it like a major crisis, like a nuke went off in New York or something.

People! Twitter will come back, you don’t realise how hard it is to maintain servers for a site that gets millions of visits each day.

Use your facebook status updates as a temporary fix.

An Obama poster that resembles the “Heath Ledger” Joker is showing up in the L.A. area. At the bottom of the poster it reads ‘Socialism’.

The poster has an image of Obama with the same face makeup as “The Joker” from “The Dark Knight”. No one knows who put is posting this image on street posts and walls or why. They obviously see Obama as a madman who tricked us all into socialism. It is a very powerful message that gets the point across. Much more effective than sitting around complaining about the president.

Do you view Obama as a socialist?

We all know most of the power sluggers in baseball have been caught with steroids. But is David Ortiz of the Red Sox spiking his protein shakes with more than creatine? I hope not, but it seems all the people we thought were clean (Clemens, Bonds, Palmeiro) tend to turn out to be users.

Now there is a report coming out that has a list of 104 players that tested positive in 2003 for steroids, David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez have there names on that list.

Ortiz essentially said that he had “no info” on the matter and would try to find out more before he gives any apology or statement.

We hope these allegations turn out to be false, but we aren’t holding our breath.

We try not to get into politics to much on our site, but this one was unavoidable. There is an “Impeach Obama” bumper sticker that is in mass production along with many others.

While this has Democrats and Obama lovers up in arms in some cases (i.e. protest at malls that sell them), for Repulicans and other conservatives, it is a ‘must have’. You can find the impeach bumper sticker along with many other anti-obama messages at www.upyoursobama.com. I was stunned to see how many ideas there are that can diss the president. My fav was Obama 08 Depression 09.

They also still sell Pro McCain Palin stickers, although I’d say it’s a little late for that.

Solange Knowles didn’t so much get a new haircut – as it was more like shaving her head nearly bald.

As tempting as it was to compare her to Britney, unlike all the other sites out there, I’m going to avoid doing that. She is not having a nervous break down, she probably thought it would be trendy.

Who know why Solange decided to change her hair style, it doesn’t look horrible. Maybe she wanted to stay cool for the summer, or donate her hair for a good cause. Whatever the reasoning, she did look better with long hair, but this will defintitely distinguish her from older sister Beyonce.

The Pirates have traded first baseman Adam LaRoche to the Red Sox. According to Boston radio station WEEI, Pittsburgh will receive Double-A shortstop Argenis Diaz and Class A right-hander Hunter Strickland.

Pittsburgh was known to be seeking a suitor for LaRoche, who is earning $7.05 million this season and will be a first-time free agent next season.

Diaz, who was signed as a non-drafted free agent out of Venezuela in 2003, is hitting .253 with 24 RBIs in 76 Double-A games this season. Diaz, 22, split last season between Class A and Double-A.

Strickland, an 18th-round pick in the 2007 First-Year Player Draft, is 5-4 with a 3.35 ERA in 18 appearances (12 starts) at the low Class A level. He has 51 strikeouts and 13 walks in 83 1/3 innings.

LaRoche has hit .247 with a team-high 12 homers and 40 RBIs this season. In Boston, he’ll be reunited with former Pittsburgh teammate Jason Bay, who was dealt there at this time last season.