Fans are to blame, but players will face biggest penalties
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Look for David Stern to come down hard on the principals in Friday&#39;s Pacers-Pistons brawl. With the NBA&#39;s image possibly at stake, many around the league expect him to send a strong message when he makes his final ruling.
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UEFA could act after a section of Real Madrid supporters aimed racist abuse at Bayer Leverkusen players. A week after the Bernabeu was witness to appalling crowd behaviour during England&#39;s international friendly
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ROMA are bracing themselves for a huge financial penalty following the incident which brought an early end to their Champions League game against Dynamo Kiev.
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Before last night&#39;s game with Tampa Bay at Fenway Park, every Boston player in sight was bombarded by questions about the drama that will be played out this weekend at Yankee Stadium against the Red Sox&#39; hated rivals.
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A massive fight between Detroit Piston fans and Indiana Pacers players last week has drawn some of the largest suspensions in the history of the NBA.
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Hooligans have rarely been a feature of America&#39;s pastime, baseball, but fans and officials were creasing their brows yesterday over an ugly fracas that broke out at a game between
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LOWELL -- The Bruins learned two valuable lessons yesterday. One was from the officials, who repeatedly taught the team what an NHL penalty was. And the other was from the New Jersey Devils, who demonstrated that if you take undisciplined penalties, they will make you pay.
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan  - Ryder Cup officials  have pledged to throw any fan barracking players off the course  at this week's biennial match starting on Friday.
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Frisk was hit on the head by an object thrown from the crowd during a Champions League match with Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday. But the apology is unlikely to cut much ice with UEFA, who will meet next week to decide Roma&#39;s punishment.
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ROMA might have their troubles, what with some fairly hefty punishment from UEFA this week. Next week in the Champions League, though, they will come up against a club even more riven with recriminations and traumas.
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I&#39;m mad at people who think it&#39;s funny to taunt black soccer players. I&#39;m saddened that a small group - I hope it&#39;s just a small group but I have my doubts â-f stupid fans are ruining, what
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Wasted chances, edgy crowd, gradual retreat into defence, late panic, strange negative substitution, two points wasted. A pessimistic Liverpool supporter turned around at half-time and said: &quot;It can&#39;t get any worse than this.
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In the aftermath of the fiasco that was the Pacers-Pistons game last Friday night, you would think that pro sports leagues would be looking to move fans farther away from the action.
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College hockey fans may have noticed an increase in penalties as local teams play early in the season, a result of the emphasis the NCAA commissioners and supervisors of officials and NCAA men's and women's ice hockey rules committee have placed on rules enforcement.
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The Football Association intends to act after crowd trouble marred Wednesday&#39;s Carling Cup tie at Stamford Bridge between Chelsea and West Ham.
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Outside Madison Square Garden, a small group of Knicks fans voiced their dissatisfaction with the teamâs coach, Isiah Thomas.  Inside the arena, that message can get one ejected.
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A fan was fined 1,000 pounds (1,880) and banned from soccer grounds for the maximum five years on Wednesday when he pleaded guilty to racially abusing Birmingham striker Dwight Yorke.