‘Breaking Cardinal Rules’ Basketball Book: 15- And 17-Year-Old Daughters Of Author Katina Powell Allegedly Gave Sex To University Of Louisville Players As Mom Made Them Escorts


Breaking Cardinal Rules is certainly a book that’s breaking plenty of unwritten rules in the sports world. Katina Powell’s Breaking Cardinal Rules reminds one of another explosive book. Confessions of a Video Vixen hit the book scene back on October 17, 2006, written by Karrine Steffans. Karrine wasn’t a woman afraid to name names, and neither is Katina afraid of naming names of those whom Powell says paid her to provide escorts and sex to members of the University of Louisville’s basketball program.

In Breaking Cardinal Rules, Katina begins by explaining the rules that an escort should adhere to when meeting a client. The Breaking Cardinal Rules book, which was published on October 2, is listed as the #1 basketball non-fiction tome. Breaking Cardinal Rules is only 104 pages — at least in the Kindle edition of Breaking Cardinal Rules, since the hardcover version of Breaking Cardinal Rules is forthcoming.

Most of Breaking Cardinal Rules was derived from Powell’s diary, and the author chose to preserve Katina’s language. Breaking Cardinal Rules is called graphic and raw — also shocking. Real names were used, along with stripper names, such as Katina’s “Bam” nickname.

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Beyond that, Breaking Cardinal Rules taught escorts to never accept a check as payment for sex, and to always meet the basketball recruits at the exit doors and never in the lobby under any circumstances. Go with your gut, advises the author to escorts who should also stay away from saying words like “price, rate or money” — and to go with “donations” instead.

Lending credibility to Breaking Cardinal Rules is co-author Dick Cady, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist. Also backing up Katina’s prostitution claims that Andre McGee, a former graduate assistant, paid Powell to supply certain University of Louisville players with sex is the fact that a Moneygram from McGee to Katina is printed in the book, reports WHAS11.

“There’s a Moneygram that is payment from Andre [McGee] to Katina and there’s a copy or photo of that in the book.”

Powell had a lot to draw on when writing Breaking Cardinal Rules, since she’d already had content from five journals to pull from during the years of 2010 to 2014 that Katina says she provided escorts and sex to U of L players in the men’s dorm. Katina, according to the Breaking Cardinal Rules book description, doesn’t regret the things she did. Amazingly, that includes Breaking Cardinal Rules confessions that Powell provided her own 15-year-old and 17-year-old (at the time) daughters, as escorts for sex, reports the Courier-Journal. It’s a confession that could potentially get Katina in trouble for sex trafficking, and McGee as well.

NEW YORK - MARCH 14: Andre McGee #33 of the Louisville Cardinals cuts down the net after defeating the Syracuse Orange during to win championship game of the Big East Tournament at Madison Square Garden on March 14, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
NEW YORK – MARCH 14: Andre McGee #33 of the Louisville Cardinals cuts down the net after defeating the Syracuse Orange during to win championship game of the Big East Tournament at Madison Square Garden on March 14, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

Using compelling keywords such as “University Of Louisville, Cardinals, Recruitment, Basketball, College, Sports, Recruitment Violations, Sex, Striptease Andre Mcgee, and Escorting Services” on Amazon, Breaking Cardinal Rules has even garnered book blurbs from notable journalists such as Mike Lopresti, a retired USA Today sports columnist.

“If you think you’ve heard seamy tales about recruiting before, wait till you get a load of this. The Louisville high command has vowed to take the matter very seriously. It should.”

Breaking Cardinal Rules opens with confessions that Powell felt like she was part of the U of L recruitment team. Breaking Cardinal Rules describes how Katina was in her late 30s, a mother of three, when the Breaking Cardinal Rules author realized that men would pay for sex — not only from the Breaking Cardinal Rules author herself, since men always seemed to want her body, but from others as well. As for those who have anything to say about the Breaking Cardinal Rules writer providing her daughters for sex, Katina tells them to “kiss my a**.”

Breaking Cardinal Rules is certainly a compelling look inside an underground world that opened up to Katina the moment she realized she could get $100 for sex from a man she called “The Arab” who ran a local business. That led to scenes in Breaking Cardinal Rules described as showing McGee arranging for Katina to bring her friends to the U of L players in a dorm, where they stripped down to nothing. The Breaking Cardinal Rules author goes on to describe how the players would tell McGee which girl they wanted. With such salacious stories breaking open a world not often spoken of, Breaking Cardinal Rules is sure to top the bestseller lists.

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