define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); espn.com – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:02:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court Big 12 Morning Five: 11.08.11 Edition http://rushthecourt.net/2011/11/08/big-12-morning-five-11-08-11-edition/ http://rushthecourt.net/2011/11/08/big-12-morning-five-11-08-11-edition/#respond Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:00:40 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=45120

The pre-season Naismith Award list was released Monday by the Atlanta Tip-Off Club’s Board of Selectors, and it includes five Big 12 players: Perry Jones (Baylor), Quincy Miller (Baylor), Khris Middleton (Texas A&M), Marcus Denmon (Missouri), and Thomas Robinson (Kansas). All five are more than deserving to make the list, and they’ll all contend for Player of the Year honors in the Big 12, at the very least. The committee left off a couple of notable names, though. If Miller can get a vote, then why can’t Oklahoma State’s LeBryan Nash? In the end, of course, it’s all semantics. The [...]]]>
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Tim Donaghy Scandal Fallout http://rushthecourt.net/2007/07/21/tim-donaghy-scandal-fallout/ http://rushthecourt.net/2007/07/21/tim-donaghy-scandal-fallout/#respond Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:44:30 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/2007/07/21/tim-donaghy-scandal-fallout/

Much is going to be made over the next week over the disclosure broken Friday by the New York Post that Tim Donaghy, a veteran NBA referee, allegedly became heavily indebted through illegal gambling and was using his position as an official to manipulate point spreads by proxy of organized crime. In other words… pointshaving, quite possibly the dirtiest word in sports. The only good news for the NBA was that the news hit on a summer Friday afternoon after a week of wall-to-wall Michael Vick and Barry Bonds-related outrage coverage.

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