Testimony In Coach Price Lawsuit Revealed
EL PASO, TX – According to published reports, Sports Illustrated may have made some mistakes in their story on Mike Price and his time spent at a Floridahotel.
In a front-page story in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal, a Sports Illustrated (SI)reporter who had claimed to have notes on Price’s allegednight with dancers, now says he did not take any notes.
Wednesday’s story says Don Yaeger, awriter for SI, testified under oath that he had taken notes while interviewing his anonymous source but then two months later said he did not take notes.
Also according to the Wall Street Journal, “Court documents show Sports Illustrated, working on a tight deadline, depended heavily on a single anonymous source for an unflattering portrait of the man who then headed one of college football’s most celebrated programs.”
In the original article SI wrote that Coach Price, who was then the head coach at Alabama, paid two women to have sex with him in a Florida hotel. Price was later fired and he’s now suingSI for $20 million.
The newinformation could help Coach Price’s case, however because he’s a public figure he must still prove “actual malice.” “Auctual malice” meansa story published even though the publisherknew it was false and/or didn’t care if it was true or false.
Coach Price, who in the past has denied having sex with a woman who spent the night in his hotel room, as unavailabe for comment on Wednesday afternoon.
