Teams don&#39;t agree about fight blame
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The Oakland Athletics and Texas Rangers disagreed over who&#39;s to blame for an altercation in the stands that led to the arrest of Rangers pitcher Frank Francisco after Francisco threw a chair that hit a woman and broke her nose.
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First place was not at stake in the Central Division on Thursday night when the Pistons squared off against the Cleveland Cavaliers, but the defending champs&#39; reputation was on the line
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Friday&#39;s brawl ended the basketball game between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons. But the national conversation about the fraying bond between sports fans and players should continue.
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Four out of five times these teams meet, there's something on the line: playoffs, league titles, etc. But even without something big at stake, there's always something to play for in this border rivalry -- playing for pride, for keeps, and for bragging rights.
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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.
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Maybe it was The Trade. Maybe it was The Fight. Maybe it was just the inevitable byproduct of a supremely talented team finding its groove.
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It is an all-for-one, one-for-all game if ever one existed. The complexity, the speed, the violence all dictate that, and even those who practice the team concept fervently sometimes find it isn&#39;t good enough.
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L arry Brown still is depressed about the violence in the stands at the Palace of Auburn Hills. And why not, his team certainly didn&#39;t play the right way last Friday night.
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A coherent argument can usually be made in support of the view that the World Cup doesn&#39;t really begin until the knock-out stages get going.
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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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Funny thing about pro sports. One team&#39;s mess is another team&#39;s messiah. In Toronto last week, the Vince Carter era came to a close, and not a minute too soon.
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Our position is: Steroid scandal grows out of a culture that accepts winning at any cost. Shock, outrage and uproar have surrounded New York Yankees slugger Jason Giambi&#39;s admission that he used steroids and
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Momentum does not appear to play a big role in determining a World Series champion. For every example of a team that seemed to feed off its recent success, there is a counterexample.
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If theyâd lost a game, they would understand. If they hadnât won their conference championship game, they wouldnât argue. If theyâd even ever really struggled to win, they could see being left out on the championship picture.
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Score tied. One round to go. A shot at an Olympic boxing gold medal at stake. Apparently only US coach Basheer Abdullah didn&#39;t know his 178-pound fighter, Andre Ward, was even with
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It is an accepted axiom in the NFL: Every team has problems. Coaches and team executives commiserate about them like old folks complaining about aches and pains.