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Pitino stresses the positive to fans

ESPN.com news services

Friday, October 9, 2009

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Despite the chaos that engulfed his life over the summer and a preseason forecast full of low expectations, Louisville coach Rick Pitino is urging his team's supporters to focus on the positive. Pitino used the team's annual tipoff luncheon Thursday to deliver a speech that might have fit just as well at a recent motivational seminar in Louisville when he shared the stage with speakers like Laura Bush and Rudy Giuliani. The program's assembled supporters gave him a standing ...

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