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Sarah Palin Had a Fling With Former Laker Glen Rice in His College Days
Sarah Palin had a one-night stand with former Laker Glen Rice, when the towering University of Michigan junior was playing at a basketball tournament in Alaska, according to The National Enquirer.
The affair happened in 1987, while she was working as a sports reporter for the Anchorage TV station KTUU and less than a year before she eloped with First Dude Todd Palin.
The Enquirer says that Rice confirmed the juicy detail in Joe McGiniss' upcoming book on Sarah Palin "The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin." (The Enquirer calls the affair a "steamy interracial hookup," which means it is either slumming for Google keywords or hoping to stir up racist controversy.)
Fishbowl LA points out that (despite what you see in the movies) sleeping with your subjects is a big ethical no-no in journalism:
For the record: we're not judging that Palin may have slept with Rice. Good for her. But we do submit this little tidbit as a window into Palin's journalistic ethics. We're not the SPJ here, but we're pretty sure you're not supposed to sleep with the subjects of your reporting — at least until after your stories are done.
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