A straw provoked from the obnoxious son of an adversary. However, lets not blame the straw, as much as the load that rightly burdened the camel. Conservatives are often held to a higher standard. We should work to hold liberals to those high standards, rather then allowing our kind to stoop to their standards. Knight gives a bad name to conservatives' efforts to restore decency, civility, and order to our society.
True sport provokes emotion, but the genious of sport is to direct emotion at performance.
No assault or battery should be accepted in sport. Hockey players, defensive football players and everyone acting in view of the public should be held to strict standards of assault and battery. Woody Hayes was a great coach but he committed a crime against that player when he close lined him. Bobby Knight has committed numerous crimes. His public unaccountability made him a target for provacateurs, true, but it is the action without consequences that caused that.