The ex-girlfriend who lost her lawsuit accusing NBA star Derrick Rose and two friends of raping her appealed the verdict Thursday on the grounds that damning testimony should have been excluded and other evidence should have been admitted at trial. Jurors cleared the Knicks point guard and his friends last month in Los Angeles federal court after they testified that the woman was coherent and willingly engaged in sex with them during an evening get-together at Rose's rented mansion in Beverly Hills and again early the next morning at her apartment in August 2013. ''We combed the records, looked at the transcripts and I think the judge misapplied the rape shield law and, in doing so, abused his discretion,'' the woman's lawyer, Waukeen McCoy, told The Associated Press. More...