NATIONAL ENQUIRER: Publishing sources familiar with the contents of author Joe McGinniss’ highly-anticipated book “The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin” have revealed shocking secrets that will impact her decision to enter the 2012 presidential race. In the book, which will be published on September 20th, McGinniss claims Sarah had a steamy interracial hookup with basketball stud GLEN RICE [pictured above, with wife Cristina Fernandez] less than a year before she eloped with her husband Todd. Sarah hooked up with the NBA great, then a 6-foot-8 junior at the University of Michigan when he was playing in a college basketball tournament in Alaska in 1987, the book says. At the time, Sarah, just out of college, was working as a sports reporter for the Anchorage TV station KTUU. A publishing source told The ENQUIRER that McGinniss claims Sarah had a “fetish” for black men at the time and he quotes a friend as saying Sarah had “hauled (Rice’s) ass down.” A source unrelated to the book told The ENQUIRER, Todd was very much in the picture at the time and the couple married just nine months later. MORE
RELATED: Glen Rice: After the you-know what, he had “a big crush” on her” & “we talked a lot on the phone.” “She was a well-rounded young lady” MORE
RELATED: McGinniss tales: In high school, Palin walked about naked during overnight athletic trips in front of teammates & Todd was a “racist bully.” MORE
RELATED: If Palin was a 20-something local television personality snorting some lines and hitting on college kids back in 1987, then so be it. Who didn’t back in 1987?! Crazy times, those `80’s! (Side bar: I love how cocaine use in the `80’s has evolved into something that is practically written off now as “everyone was doing it.” Um, okay.) If we want confirmation that this tryst went down, all we need to do is go to some old YouTube footage of Palin’s (then under her maiden name of Sarah Heath) sportscasting career in Alaska and the proof is right there. MORE