define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); katina powell – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Thu, 07 Jan 2016 01:12:20 +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 Media Timeout: Louisville Recruiting Scandal Sparks Unchecked Wave of Sexism http://rushthecourt.net/2016/01/06/media-timeout-louisville-recruiting-scandal-sparks-unchecked-wave-of-sexism/ http://rushthecourt.net/2016/01/06/media-timeout-louisville-recruiting-scandal-sparks-unchecked-wave-of-sexism/#respond Wed, 06 Jan 2016 16:01:25 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=114568

College basketball places huge emphasis on individual games — showdowns between top-ranked teams, annual rivalry clashes, single-elimination tournaments — but it’s important to take a step back and look at the bigger picture from time to time. The Media Timeout considers how fans and journalists watch, follow, and talk about the sport.

Controversy placed several college basketball programs squarely in the national spotlight last offseason. The most lurid and sensational of these headlines came from the Bluegrass State, where allegations surfaced in October that Louisville men’s basketball personnel had systematically used sex to lure high school recruits to the school over a period of several years. The [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2016/01/06/media-timeout-louisville-recruiting-scandal-sparks-unchecked-wave-of-sexism/feed/ 0