I never thought I’d be writing about Sarah Palin.

After all, I’m a sports reporter and she is a rogue.

But there is a story that Palin allegedly had a brief relationship with Glen Rice back in 1987.

Rice was playing for the University of Michigan then, and the Wolverines were involved in the Great Alaska Shootout.

He was a junior at U-M and Palin was fresh out of college working as a sports reporter at television station KTUU.

Rice has supposedly confirmed the brief encounter, according to “The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin,” Joe McGinniss’ soon-to-be published book.

So be it. On a personal level, I don’t have any problem with a Palin-Rice one-on-one fast break.

But it’s different on a professional level. A reporter sleeping with a player pretty much obliterates every journalistic ethic there is.

So much for objectivity.

Less than a year later, Palin married her husband, Todd.