Basketball games these days are filled with a variety of audience-participation games, as if that whole 2 to 3 minutes during a TV timeout completely offsets the frantic back-and-forth action of the game. Among the competitions that go on are the half-court shot games, where the winner gets nice prize - you know, like a $250 gift certificate to a furniture store that doesn't even sell lamps that cheap. Anyway, a University of Nevada student heaved in a half-court shot - and won himself a year's free tuition. That is great news - especially if he can sell it on eBay and then buy himself a nice couch.