Court moving McNair's way

Appeals Court hearing Tuesday went almost all in the former USC assistant coach Todd McNair's direction and against the NCAA.

Until Presiding Judge Lee Smalley Edmon announced it to start the proceedings Tuesday afternoon in the Second District of the California Court of Appeals, you wouldn't have known there had been a "tentative ruling" already issued by the three-judge panel in the NCAA's appeal to dismiss the lawsuit of former USC assistant Todd McNair.

And even though Edmon did not make the decision public before or after the oral arguments, the smiles and upbeat manner of McNair's attorneys and the way the judges questioned each side made it clear. This was a good day for Todd McNair.

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