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Brawl mars Xavier's win over rival Cincinnati
Tribune News Services ^ | December 10, 2011

Posted on 12/10/2011 3:32:42 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

CINCINNATI — Eighth-ranked Xavier beat crosstown rival Cincinnati 76-53 Saturday in a game that featured a steady stream of trash talking and was called with 9.4 seconds left when the teams got into a brawl on court.

Words escalated into shoving and swings as the final seconds ticked down. Both benches cleared and coaches pulled their players away. The referees called it.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: basketball; cincinnati; colleges; xavier

1 posted on 12/10/2011 3:32:50 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

The brawl wasn’t nearly as indicative of the thuggishness that’s afoot here.

In the post-game presser, a couple of xavier thuggies were saying (in response to questions about why the brawl took place), in essence: “They a lot of gangstas out they on the flo’. If they be dissin us, we be messin dem up, yo.”

They need to kill those programs and start over, if at all.


2 posted on 12/10/2011 3:44:11 PM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great; until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Migraine
I watched the Army-Navy game and came across this fight during the post-game report. A tad difference to say the least.
3 posted on 12/10/2011 3:48:21 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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As someone who has followed the Shootout for nigh on 50 years, I was not surprised that today's Shootout broke down into this ugliness. The Shootout has seen its share of bad moments over the years. Toss into the mix, today's gangsta baloney, vicious tweets and message board comments, stir in some loudmouth punk of a sport shock jock wanting some drama for his ratings, then a dose of an knuckle head of a head coach who did little to tone it all down, and I was surprised it didn't get even uglier with fan involvement, Just where all this will go, hard for me to say. There was an attempt years ago to stop the Shootout when things where getting nasty back then...
4 posted on 12/10/2011 4:18:10 PM PST by LRS ("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

I believe the student-athletes became embroiled in a discussion over the relative merits of nominalism and realism—it’s a perennial crux—and the arguments slid into the ad hominem variety.


5 posted on 12/10/2011 4:21:59 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (That must have been it.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Our culture has descended to a point that our constitutional republic will never be revived.


6 posted on 12/10/2011 4:29:13 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Just gettin in a little early training for their next step, the NBA.


7 posted on 12/10/2011 4:43:54 PM PST by Newtoidaho (Fight organized crime. Vote out all incumbent Democrats!)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Any Ohioan can tell you that civilization never really took hold in the Cincinnati area.
8 posted on 12/10/2011 5:06:13 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Migraine

Just don’t call them “nappy headed hos”.


9 posted on 12/10/2011 5:07:10 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Migraine

“They a lot of gangstas out they on the flo’. If they be dissin us, we be messin dem up, yo.”

Imagine their level of conversational skills if they hadn’t made it to college.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.


10 posted on 12/10/2011 5:15:36 PM PST by SharpRightTurn ( White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Charles Henrickson

“I believe the student-athletes became embroiled in a discussion over the relative merits of nominalism and realism—it’s a perennial crux—and the arguments slid into the ad hominem variety.”

Insightful analysis.


11 posted on 12/10/2011 5:24:58 PM PST by SharpRightTurn ( White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: LRS

I missed the game. Which coach was the knucklehead? Cronin or Mack?


12 posted on 12/10/2011 5:26:44 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: ConservativeStatement

Cancel the next 3 games for each team. End the seasons for those who threw punches, especially the criminal sucker puncher on Cinci.


13 posted on 12/10/2011 5:43:01 PM PST by montag813
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Mack is a knucklehead. He helped set the tone for what happened, let his players talk trash the whole game, and didn’t call time to pull his players off and and let the bench finish the game.


14 posted on 12/11/2011 3:45:39 AM PST by LRS ("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

I just saw a tape of it all. The thing that impressed me the most was the Cincinnati coach.....wow. He made them remove their uniforms and told them HE would decide if they ever had the honor of wearing them again. He said he stripped a uniform shirt off of one of his players. Told his players that there are plenty of young men who would die for a chance at a college education on a full scholarship and they are lucky to be getting this chance. He went on to say that after that disgusting brawl, HE was hoping he still had a coaching job. I am just so impressed with his words. Just wow.


15 posted on 12/11/2011 6:51:22 AM PST by tioga ( Holder lost the guns, Corzine lost the money, Obama lost the jobs....a dem trifecta.)
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