Let&#39;s not emulate violence in NBA
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Attention high school administrators and coaches: Fight Night at the local gym or football field could be coming soon. I hope I&#39;m wrong, but unless schools, players and parents take steps in response to recent news reports, it will happen locally.
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The most shocking thing about the NBA melee that occurred last weekend is that it didn&#39;t happen sooner. Or that it wasn&#39;t worse.
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The NBA mandate to crack down on malicious attempts to injure didn&#39;t last until even the start of the regular season. At least that was one conclusion that could be drawn from the punishments
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CHICAGO -- Sometimes a first-quarter pep talk, a halftime speech, a postgame rant speaks volumes. Even in the NBA, where all that really counts is what takes place on the court, a few well-chosen, well-timed words can be particularly revealing. Those words can show how a player or coach truly feels about his team. That was the case during the ...
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Ever since last Friday night&#39;s NBA brawl in Detroit, I have tried to make sense out of the whole mess. I have watched replay after replay of the ordeal, hoping to come up with some sort of reason
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When professional athletes start slugging fans, severe penalties pretty much are a no-brainer. So few tears will be shed for the nine basketball players suspended - at the cost of millions in salary â-fter
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JACKSON, Tenn. (BP)--Since Thanksgiving is upon us, I was pondering a holiday-related topic for this week&#39;s column. But then Ron Artest and the Indiana Pacers decided to pick a fight with
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THERE IS no excuse for the behavior exhibited by a few Oakland A&#39;s fans and some members of the Texas Rangers baseball team that sent a player to jail and left a spectator with a broken nose.
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Make no mistake about it. Ron Artest of the Indiana Pacers was to blame for the ugly fans-players brawl at The Palace. That&#39;s not to give the dumb fan who threw a cup of beer
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I&#39;M going to say it: A lot of the problems with violence in sports rests with the officials. Referees vary in how they apply the rules.
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Fighting an opponent doesn&#39;t always mean opposing his force. When faced with overwhelming power, good fighters often use their attacker&#39;s force to their advantage, as in judo, for example.
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I am not about to condone the Indiana Pacer&#39;s behavior for charging into the stands and swinging at some Detroit Piston fans. As a professional and public figure, he has a responsibility to take the high road with unruly fans.
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With all the widespread national interest in Friday&#39;s NBA brawl between the Indiana Pacers, the Detroit Pistons and seemingly hundreds of fans, it&#39;s easy for Saturday&#39;s melee involving NCAA
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It&#39;s moments like this when boxing fans must know that the folks at HBO and the Garden don&#39;t take you seriously. Seriously now.
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&quot;Most fans don&#39;t understand the sport,&quot; he said. &quot;They want to see two guys get in there and be Rock-em Sock-em Robots until somebody gets knocked out.
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If you&#39;re looking for nasty, for a football-style rivalry with two teams that just don&#39;t like each other, don&#39;t look here.
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Now that everybody in and around USA Basketball has breathed a huge sigh of relief, let&#39;s not get carried away.