seth1805's blog Profile | Galleries | Favorites | Fanbase | Clubs | Comments | Blog Sarah Palin article. This is for my own edification,  Posting it her to show my wife.  I knew about it when the story broke so I know it is old news.         Posted on : May 15, 2014     Add Comment seth1805 Comments: 4,699 Commented on May 15, 2014 Sarah hooked up with Rice, a 6-foot-8 junior at the University of Michigan, while he was in town for the 1987 Thanksgiving weekend "Great Alaska Shootout" basketball tournament, according to the book. McGinniss quotes a friend as saying Sarah had "hauled his [Rice's] ass down." While the pal coyly states: "I can't say I know they had sex," the friend is also quoted as saying: "I remember Sarah feeling pretty good that she'd been with a black basketball star," according to the source. Their encounter reportedly occurred in the dorm room of Sarah's younger sister Molly at the University of Alaska Anchorage, according to the book. Rice confirms the hookup in McGinniss' book, according to the source, "but he's quoted as saying he didn't think Sarah harbored any bad feelings over being with him because he was black. And he remembers only nice things about Sarah, recalling her as 'gorgeous' and saying she was a big crush of his at the time." According to the book, Rice and Sarah continued to chat on the phone right up until she married Todd just nine months later.