define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); tony mejia – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:14:18 +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 09.19.07 Fast Breaks http://rushthecourt.net/2007/09/19/091907-fast-breaks/ http://rushthecourt.net/2007/09/19/091907-fast-breaks/#respond Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:38:25 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/2007/09/19/091907-fast-breaks/

Aside from Bruce Pearl’s newly-freed, um, pearls, what else is going on this week?

From the we-don’t-see-this-often file, Memphis’s home newspaper called out Tiger star and smack-ophist Joey Dorsey for being a piece of oversized dung troublemaker who deserves expulsion from the team. Speaking of trouble, former Oklahoma State all-american Byron Houston was sentenced to four years in prison for violating probation based on a public nudity charge.  Memo to Byron: please stay away from railroad tracks.     Rivals makes a pair of arguments that the Big 10 or the ACC will be the worst major conference this year.  Our vote, just like last year:  Big 10.  Tim [...]]]>
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Billy the Kid Fallout http://rushthecourt.net/2007/06/02/billy-the-kid-fallout/ http://rushthecourt.net/2007/06/02/billy-the-kid-fallout/#respond Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:15:48 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/2007/06/02/billy-the-kid-fallout/

As expected, the college hoops/NBA blogospheres have been abuzz with thoughts on the reasoning behind Billy Donovan’s decision to leave Florida for the Orlando Magic, as well as speculation as to how well BTK will do when he gets there. As we said on Thursday when the news was breaking, it’s unlikely that Donovan will become an abject failure in the NBA like his mentor Pitino in Boston or several of the other successful college coaches who made that jump – most notably, Carlesimo, Calipari, Tim Floyd, Mike Montgomery and even switching sports with another ex-Gator, Steve Spurrier. [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2007/06/02/billy-the-kid-fallout/feed/ 0