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Morning Five: 07.21.11 Edition

jstevrtc — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:18:48 +0000

“My account was hacked!” goes the common cry of players and sometimes even coaches who tweet something they soon end up regretting, right? Well, you wont hear anything like that coming from any of the University of New Mexico’s players. In fact, you won’t hear anything at all in the way of tweets from them, because Steve Alford has mandated a Twitter gag order for everyone on his squad. As of this writing, Facebook is still allowed. So, what do you think? Overprotective, or sound judgment by Coach Alford? And now, your daily Salinas: most of the talk in this area on [...]

Mbakwe’s Mea Culpa: Lauding Minnesota’s Decision

rtmsf — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:50:38 +0000

In an environment where everyone is quicker than a hiccup to play the role of judge, jury and executioner, consider the case of Trevor Mbakwe at Minnesota. The talented big man and Gophers’ best player was arrested and jailed Monday night for violating a restraining order placed on him by a woman in neighboring St. Paul after he posted a comment on her Facebook page. The restraining order, placed upon him in 2009, allows no contact whatsoever between Mbakwe and the woman, even through the relatively safe distance of the internet. Yesterday Minnesota officials released the blurb that Mbakwe wrote:

Mbakwe's [...]

Morning Five: 11.24.10 Edition

rtmsf — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:25:37 +0000

Did you hear that there was an earthquake at the Maui Invitational last night? RTC Live was there covering the Kentucky-Washington game and thought something was a little off when the desk in front of the correspondent and the basket supports from the ceiling began shaking back and forth. Read this at the 6:36 mark. The amazing thing is that the game and that moment in particular (when UW’s Venoy Overton elbowed a Kentucky player and received a technical foul) were so intense that few fans and actual participants even noticed the 4.6 temblor. As John Calipari responded when asked [...]