define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); kidnapping – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:59:47 +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 Morning Five: 06.20.13 Edition http://rushthecourt.net/2013/06/20/morning-five-06-20-13-edition/ http://rushthecourt.net/2013/06/20/morning-five-06-20-13-edition/#respond Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:01:04 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=97553

Today’s biggest news in the college athletics world is likely to come down from Oakland, California, as a federal judge is expected to rule on a motion from Ed O’Bannon‘s legal team that would certify his lawsuit against the NCAA into a class action. We’ll have more on the importance of this topic later this morning, but the long and short of it is that if the motion is granted it would open the door for literally thousands of past and present athletes to sue the NCAA for the use of their likeness for, oh, the last four or five [...]]]>
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Morning Five: 06.05.13 Edition http://rushthecourt.net/2013/06/05/morning-five-06-05-13-edition/ http://rushthecourt.net/2013/06/05/morning-five-06-05-13-edition/#respond Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:01:15 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=97424

In what turned out to be a rough Tuesday in terms of college basketball-related news, a federal grand jury in Alabama unsealed an indictment that alleges former Auburn guard Varez Ward of attempting to throw a game against Arkansas in the 2011-12 season. Ward, a junior at the time, is accused of two counts of sports bribery (or more commonly known as point-shaving) where he allegedly conspired with gamblers and tried to solicit other players to throw the game. (full indictment here) Ward only played 19 seconds in that contest against the Hawgs, suffering a thigh bruise very early that kept him [...]]]>
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