Our say: NBA brawl a dismal sign of the times
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WE&#39;VE ABANDONED the notion that professional basketball games can provide a model of good sportsmanship. We&#39;d settle for NBA games that didn&#39;t celebrate thuggishness.
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Last week&#39;s basketball brawl in Detroit, triggered by an on-court fight that spilled into the stands when a fan tossed a drink, has set the sports world buzzing.
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NBA Indiana Pacers&#39; Ron Artest and three teammates testified about the basketball brawl. Ron Artest took the witness stand and described, in his words, one of the worst brawls
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Ron Artest, like so many poor souls in sports, is misunderstood. His coach doesn't understand him. His teammates don't understand him. Fans don't understand him. Half the time he doesn't understand himself.
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DETROIT The city of Detroit is trying to overcome its latest black eye after a brawl between NBA players and fans. One woman says she thinks Friday&#39;s melee reemphasizes the stereotypes many people have about Detroit.
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It is one of sports&#39; greatest tragedies now that the Shaquille O&#39;Neal and Kobe Bryant marriage couldn&#39;t last longer than the eight turbulent years that it did.
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We are in the midst of whatâs usually a prime season for sporting events. So why have most of them lost their luster?
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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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The NBA has numerous ills, but after last weekend&#39;s brawl in Auburn Hills, Mich., players jumping into the stands to fight fans probably is off the list.
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Rudy Tomjanovich isn&#39;t sure whether the TV images of the brawl between the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers affected him more deeply because of what he went through in another on-court brawl 27 years ago.
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New York - Unprecedented suspensions and tighter arena security were imposed by the National Basketball Association (NBA) after an ugly brawl between players and fans that could deliver the league a painful blow.
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The line between mediocrity and parity is blurring nightl in the N.B.A.Âs Eastern Conference. Joe Dumars, the Detroit PistonsÂ president, coined a word to explain the trend: paridocrity.
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Last month's basketball riot in suburban Detroit was a disgrace, a shameful moment in the history of American sports -- and the most entertaining TV show of the year.
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By Frank Fitzpatrick, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 9--This Philadelphia February, filled with flops, failures, fraternal felonies and foot problems, possesses little to cheer the sporting soul.
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BASKETBALL RIOT: The outbreak of violence in Detroit is merely the latest problem to plague professional sports. This newspaper may be the last publication in America to comment on last weekâs National Basketball
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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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Not everything that ails the NBA is solved by the rest-of-the-season suspension of the Indiana Pacers&#39; Ron Artest. It would be irresponsible to suggest anybody should have foreseen a brawl coming.