define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); mlk day – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:49:00 +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 ATB: Kemba Is For Closers http://rushthecourt.net/2011/01/18/atb-kemba-is-for-closers/ http://rushthecourt.net/2011/01/18/atb-kemba-is-for-closers/#respond Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:49:00 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=31245

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.  — MLK, 1963

The Lede.  We hope everyone had a brilliant MLK Day Weekend.  We know that you had a great MLK Day with the great hoops on all afternoon, culminating in two top ten matchups between Big East teams (aren’t [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2011/01/18/atb-kemba-is-for-closers/feed/ 0 Morning Five: MLK Day Edition http://rushthecourt.net/2010/01/18/morning-five-mlk-day-edition/ http://rushthecourt.net/2010/01/18/morning-five-mlk-day-edition/#respond Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:20:10 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=15781

Happy MLK Day, everyone.  There’s probably no other American sport as impacted by the civil rights legislation spearheaded by the nonviolent resistance of Dr. King and his fellow agents of change as that of basketball.  Fifty years ago, major college basketball was whiter than virgin snow and the prevailing sentiment was that black players were too undisciplined to play the game at an elite level.  Look around today — how could so many people be so dreadfully wrong?  King’s lifelong work helped so many people in this country, and one of the relatively insignificant (in the grand scheme) results of [...]]]>
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