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Americans taken aback by events like the NBA brawl can find some solace in the fact that they have been spared the violence that routinely accompanies soccer games in Europe, where fans throw bottles and knives at the opposing team--unless they can find something bigger. "You have people who don't even watch the game," says Sergio Campana of Italy's players union. "They just come to cause havoc...
Many commentators have delicately cited race as a factor in the brawl (all the players involved were black, most of the fans white), but Shropshire argues that race is less a factor than it was during the 1970s, when the predominance of black players in the NBA gained widespread attention--not to mention in an earlier era when black players in any sport were a novelty. "Look at what Jackie Robinson had to endure," Shropshire says. "For three years, he never went into the stands, and the abuse hurled at that time was more severe. A small percentage of fans...
Gammons also touched briefly on several contentious issues, ranging from the recent NBA Pacers-Pistons brawl to union negotiations and performance-enhancing drug use, which he said was rampant in baseball in the mid-1990?...
DAVID STERN, NBA commissioner, describing the Nov. 19 brawl between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons...
...field, yeah, he’s the nicest guy... On the field, he is the fiercest competitor out there, between him and Ryan [Fitzpatrick] they would brawl anybody out there.” -—Brian Edwards