Finally, NCAA gives basketball ’Bows a break

Let’s go, ‘Bows! That rallying cry deserves to be more full-throated than ever for the University of Hawaii men’s basketball team, now that the NCAA has lifted a postseason ban on the team. The long-awaited decision came Friday morning, just before the hoopsters boarded a flight to Los Angeles, where they play Long Beach State today in the regular-season finale.

A raft of sanctions was imposed for NCAA violations committed under former coach Gib Arnold’s watch. But all that is now in the past, as Coach Eran Ganot & Co. prepare to defend their Big West title in post-season play, starting next week in Anaheim, Calif.

A 30-minute bike ride for $3.50?

A bikesharing program is supposed to lure people who are casual cyclists who might consider it if it is more convenient than other transportation. And affordable — don’t forget. It seems that, with its summer launch of 100 rental stations between Chinatown and Diamond Head, Bikeshare Hawaii might welcome kamaaina customers.

But only tourists, it seems, would pay $3.50 per half-hour period. That may be all someone needs to make a hop somewhere just a tad too far for hoofing it. But once you get there — another $3.50 to go back?