Warford v. Lexington Herald-Leader Co.

LAMBERT, Justice.

Appellant Reggie Warford sued the Lexington Herald-Leader Company and editor John S. Carroll for defamation in the Fay-ette Circuit Court in 1986. The allegedly false statements of which appellant complained concerned published allegations of recruiting improprieties he committed in his capacity as assistant basketball coach at the University of Pittsburgh. The statements at issue originally appeared in the Lexington Herald-Leader in the fall of 1985, but were reprinted in 1986 in a special publication under the heading “NCAA Reprint” which was entitled 1985: A Year of Crisis…