Brockman leads No. 16 Washington past Seattle

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03/04/2009 - Seattle, WA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jon Brockman scored 16 points and pulled down 10 rebounds, as 16th-ranked Washington blew out Seattle University, 87-60.

Isaiah Thomas scored 12, Justin Dentmon had 11 and Quincy Pondexter registered 10 points for the Huskies (23-7), who have won four in a row.

The Huskies earned a tie for the Pac-10 crown, their first since 1985, with last weekend's 83-78 win over Arizona. The team can claim the outright title, its first since 1953, when it finishes up the regular season Saturday against Washington State. The Huskies can also claim the conference championship if UCLA loses Thursday to Oregon State.

Pondexter left after taking a nasty fall going for a dunk on an alley-oop play late in the first half. Pondexter, who came into the game averaging 11.5 points, went up for the ball after a pass from Venoy Overton with 4:17 left in the half, but tumbled over the top of Seattle's Chris Gweth. Pondexter remained on his side on the court before being helped to the locker room, but came back with bruised ribs to play in the second half.

Aaron Broussard scored 13 for the Red Hawks (19-8), who have played their share of Division I opponents this season, but Tuesday suffered their second loss in the last 13 games. Leigh Swanson scored 12 and Drew Harris had 11 in defeat. Austen Powers tallied eight points and 11 rebounds.

The outcome was never in doubt, especially after the Huskies built a 25-8 lead. Pondexter's layup capped the early spurt. Thomas added a pair of jumpers in the final minute of the half, moving the Huskies to a 42-19 lead at the break.

Pondexter's two quick buckets expanded the margin to 59-27 with under 15 minutes remaining.

Game Notes

Washington is 20-4 all-time against Seattle U in a series that started in 1953...Overton had nine points, five assists and five steals...The Huskies shot 56.1 percent from the field.

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NFL owners, already life's biggest winners, want to try their luck with the lottery.


That was the news out of their meetings last week, where team bosses voted unanimously to allow stamping state and local lottery tickets with franchise logos, if, ahem, any governments wanted to do a deal.

A shocker: Within days the Pats announced they'd be sponsoring the Massachusetts state lottery, the Skins said they'd slap their sticker on Virginia scratch-offs and the Ravens admitted they were talking to Maryland lottery bosses. In all likelihood, it won't be long before every team is a presenting sponsor of scratch-offs or just plain old pick fives. "The change in policy was approved 32-0," said NFL spokesman Greg Aiello. "So you can expect to see more deals soon."

It's a branding opportunity too big for the owners to ignore, and one a couple of dozen baseball franchises have enjoyed for years. The fact the NFL has been slower to act than those slack-brained Seligites is indicative of its complicated relationship with all forms of gambling. Consider this: Last Thursday, as the Pats and the Redskins finalized their new lottery deals, a lawyer representing the NFL argued before Delaware's Supreme Court that the state's newly signed sports betting law should be repealed.

The NFL betting is the face of opposition to sports gambling . And as much as it would like to share that responsibility with other leagues, that's not going to happen as long as more than 40% of all money legally wagered on games is bet on football. That's why the Brewers can do a multi-million dollar deal with a local casino, or the Celtics can make their own pact with the Mass lottery, and the response is, "Sweet, let's play." But when the NFL does it the stakes are higher, and everyone from NPR's Frank Deford to the Associated Press to the guys blogging at Deadspin will line up to play gotcha.

So I asked Aiello, who surely knew there'd be piling on, how the league can rail against being bait for sports bettors, then allow its franchises to be just that for lotteries, the most insidious and addictive form of gambling around. He emailed me this response: "We are not moral crusaders. NFL personnel are permitted to engage in legal forms of gambling, except for betting on NFL games. We are making a distinction here between the spread of gambling on the outcome of our games and supporting state lottery scratch-off games, that have nothing to do with the outcome of our games."

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