Arboleda had just been called for his second flagrant foul of the game and apparently did not like the "profane" language hurled at him by a hapless spectator. Thankfully, the heckler was in the front row, which not only made for easy pummeling, it meant he didn't have to leap over ten rows of seats and incite a riot to take his revenge. Much more efficient that way.

The league commissioner, Sonny "Crockett" Barrios, issued a stern warning (get it?) to Arboleda, pointing out that the PBA already has a bad rep in this conservative nation and crap like this doesn't help. If it happens again the 10-year veteran will be banned for life.

Lost in the all controversy, however, is a much more disturbing truth about the state of international basketball. Arboleda plays for a team called the Burger King Whoppers. He will be suspended without pay or fries.

Filipino basketball player banned for season after punching fan [Ball Don't Lie]
Arboleda banned for rest of the season [Manilla Bulletin]

New Mexico also wants to make it clear that he is not being suspended because of the harassment lawsuit filed by a former administrative assistant. No, no. That was taken care of days ago. Okay, it was yesterday. But all legal claims are "resolved" so it's like it never even happened. Keep that money coming, Alumni Donors!

Locksley will miss the Lobos' next game against UNLV on October 24, and if all goes according to plan, he'll be fired just as soon as the school can figure out the least embarrassing way to get him out of town.

Source: New Mexico Lobos coach Mike Locksley suspended 1 game [ESPN]

Supposedly, Locklsey and Lobo's receivers coach J.B. Gerald had been at odds ever since training camp, when Locksley dressed him down in front of players and the media during practice. Then after New Mexico got embarrassed by Air Force last month, Locksley let him have it again. Only Gerald refused to take it quietly and neither coach would back down.

According to a police report filed by Gerald, Locksley became angry and approached Gerald in an aggressive manner. Gerald told Locksley that not even his mother talks to him that way. Locksley, witnesses said, fired back that his mother wasn't paying Gerald $90,000 a year.

Then after all the harsh words, it was a simple "Whatever" from Gerald that brought Locksley back into the room after he had begun to leave.

Locksley told Fanhouse he was trying to leave the room where the argument was taking place, but that one little "whatever" sent him over the edge and charging back in to grab Gerald. (Although Locksley still claims that he didn't actually hit him. Whatever.) Somehow Gerald is the one on administrative leave, although that might benefit him in the long run. Add assault to the sexual harassment charges and an 0-4 record and Coach Locksley might not even survive his first year as a head coach. That would make me want to give someone a fat lip.

How Push Led to Shove in New MexicoFanHouse [Fanhouse]

However, Taylor did give some warning on his Facebook page:

"keep my name out ya' mouth for you get smacked in it," he wrote at 11:12 a.m. Tuesday, and 30 minutes later he posted, "never get outta character .. I'm always a G about it."

About 4 p.m., Taylor posted, "(racial slur)s be muggin me ..you know I'm mugging back."

(Racial slur)s, huh? I wish those people would just (derogatory remark.) Taylor later admitted to dislocating his finger "throwing a punch," which will be very helpful to authorities should they decide to press charges. This is at least the third high-profile fight in the last year between athletes from rival teams at the same school. (Michigan and Michigan State have both had notable football-on-hockey violence.) Can't they all just agree to stick together and beat up on the kids from weaker D-III schools instead? You're tearing us apart!

At least Taylor did provide this blogger with a new motto about old media, warning folks not to believe everything they read in the papers—even when the papers report exactly what happened and what you confirmed on Facebook.

"don't let the news paper gas yall up aite!"

Consider myself ungassed.

Fracas sends KU guard Tyshawn Taylor to hospitals [KU Sports]
In Facebook post, Kansas player Tyshawn Taylor says he dislocated finger throwing punch [KC Star]
Tyshawn Taylor injured in a fight with KU's football team [Ballin Is A Habit]

UPDATE: More fighting today! Police broke up an "altercation" between hoops and football players who may or may not have a "beef" with Sherron Collins. Developing? [Daily Kansan]
Witnesses report second altercation between basketball, football players [Lawrence Journal-World]

UPDATE 2: Yep, it was over a woman. [KUsports.com

Congratulations to the American Football Coaches Association for dreaming up the brilliant PR gambit known as Sportsmanship Weekend. Getting two football teams who do not like each other to shake hands before the game really taught everyone a valuable lesson about the importance of fair play and respecting your opponent. Blount also wiped that idea right off the map, but let's not forget that it was Hout's equally egregious display of poor sportsmanship that sparked last night's incident.

As Hout passed Blount in the post-game celebration he pointed at Blount, clearly said something insulting, and then slapped him on the shoulder. The reason he didn't see the punch coming was because his own coach was pulling him aside to politely point out that he was being a jackass. Not to sound like a third-grader, but he started it and if anyone wants to cry about the need to eliminate this scourge from the game then that does matter.

Does that excuse Blount at all? No way. You've got be to bigger than that, especially later on when it was the fans who were doing the taunting. (Fans who should probably have kept their mouth shut too. Blount would have ripped them in half if they didn't have security to protect them.) He should be suspended for multiple games, but if Hout gets off with nothing but a sore jaw that'll be too bad.

What does everyone else think?

The Oregonian

The Ducks running back should be arrested and charged with assault today for slugging Hout, who wasn't even looking. Also, Blount should be served up by first-year head coach Chip Kelly as a reminder of everything the program should never become. It was cheap. It was embarrassing. It was disgusting.

Sports Pros(e)

Blount, who's own coaches say he has a lot of maturing to do and was suspended once in pre-season practice already, put the key quote on the board, saying Oregon owed Boise State an "ass-whoopin' " after the Ducks 37-32 upset lost last season in Boise. Unfortunately for Blount, he forgot to open up his can in the 19-8 loss.

Bleacher Report

I have been embarrassed by happenings at the Oregon athletic department before. Dismissals, the lack of action after Luke Bellotti was arrested for drunk driving, Dante Rosario kicking a Cal player in the head and not being punished, you name it. The kinds of things that happen to every college football team and I never like, especially when it happens to my team. But this was so public, so egregious, and showed such a lack of maturity that I simply feel like all my Ducks' paraphernalia needs a good washing.

Willamette Week

Is this the end of the white jerseys?

Wiz of Odds

This last video was posted before the game by something called the Armenian Demon. After Thursday's loss, his whereabouts are unknown.

Every Day Should Be Saturday

He's as completely suspended as Byron Hout was completely bitchmade by Blount's sucker punch. Unsportsmanlike? Oh, certainly. Dirty? Completely, yes, but shit, would you so much as step on Blount's shadow without his permission now? Somewhere he and Ron Artest are walking through a suburban mall right now punching people in the face randomly and talking about how awesome smoothies are.

Sergio Jauregui of Blooming caught an elbow from Leonardo Medina of Oriente in a Bolivian league match this weekend and he retaliated by chasing after Medina and knocking him to the ground. But he wasn't satisfied with that. So as Medina was making his way to the tunnel at halftime, Jauregui came flying out of nowhere and put his cleat right in Medina's chin. That'll learn him.

Okay, so maybe knocking a guy out and forcing him into 12 days of bed rest is a little extreme, but at least when the stretcher came out on the field he actually needed it.

Bolivian flying head kick! [Dirty Tackle]

Are we being fair to Jeremy Shockey? Of course not. Houston's DeMeco Ryans was at least equally to blame (if not more so) for the altercation that began with a simple pass route, a grab of the jersey, a forearm to the head and all kinds of shoving. Plus, that was only the second fight of the day started by a Saints tight end. Buck Ortega started his own scrum against the Houston defense. Why so angry, America's tight ends?

One thing that everyone can agree on is that fighting in the preseason is a positive sign that demonstrates your team's determination to win ... or it's a horrible omen that exposes your team as wild and undisciplined. That's why we play the fake games!

Shockey at center of Saints-Texans brawl [WWLTV]

Jason Chighizola, a 34-year-old coach of the Slidell (Louisiana) Bantam league "Yankees," was convicted this week of slugging the coach of the "Red Sox" after refusing to shake his hand during the post-game lineup. The Red Sox had just beaten the Yankees in the final game of the season to claim first place, so Chighizola was understandably upset. So upset that after being pulled off of the other coach, he ran to the dugout to get a bat and started swinging that like a mad man. (The game took place last year, but the trial was held Thursday.)

Naturally this particular rivalry extended back well before the game. The Red Sox coach with the bloodied face, Robert Johnson, may have taunted Chighizola a bit, since Johnson has lost his coveted spot as coach of the league all-star team to Chighizola earlier that year. Both men had been fighting for control of the league's board of directors, because the hand that controls the Slidell Bantam Baseball Association board is the hand that rules the world. The kids, of course, just want ice cream after the game and could not care less.

So now both men are banned from all league events and can't even watch their own kids play baseball, which is fine because people this ridiculous should not actually be parents.

Brawling Slidell youth baseball coach is found guilty of battery [New Orleans Times-Picayune]

This fantastic donnybrook took place between the Winnipeg Goldeneyes and the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks on Monday. The backstory is a little confusing because both teams wear red and it involves Canada, but the gist is this. Goldeneye pitcher Ace Walker (who is also a Bond villain) threw his first pitch of the fourth inning behind a RedHawk batter. This was because third baseman Kevin West, who can be seen yelling at the dugout after the throw, had been hit in the head earlier in the game. The RedHawks' third base coach, who is also manager Doug Simunic, says he was trying to calm West down, when West's manager Tom Vaeth got in his face and allegedly bumped him. That's when the slapping started.

Amazingly, neither manager will be suspended, although they did receive fines. Simunic said in a radio interview the next day that he was simply defending himself and was not going to take any guff from an opponent. (He also gets heckled by Winnipeg fans during the interview, which makes it worth a listen.) Frankly, I think this is how all beanball wars should be settled. The umpire warning should actually be instructions to keep your hands up and fight clean.

If that doesn't work ... rock, paper, scissors.

RedHawks pitcher sparked brawl: West [Winnipeg Free Press]
Simunic: "I'm not going to take this, man" [In Forum]
Fargo-Moorhead manager in on-field brawl with Winnipeg coach [Star-Tribune]

That's Egor, the Manly Sea Eagle, and he more than held his own during a recent sideline dust-up. The dooshbag who came out of the stands and sucker punched Egor, got in quite a few headshots. Unfortunately, he was punching a giant foam head.

The fans love it, the players love it, and we bet Egor got some sweet feather action from the lady birds that night.

Manly Sea Eagle Mascot brawling [YouTube]

Castillo, who is a Cubs prospect (of course) was found guilty of felonious assault for chucking a high hard one that was intended for an opponent's dugout, but ended up hitting a fan in the stands. The incident happened during a Peoria Chiefs-Dayton Dragons game that started with two managers shoving each other and ended with all-out war. (The video is still here, amazingly.) He was found not guilty of "assault with a deadly weapon" because I guess his velocity was a little off.

Sentencing will be August 3, and on September 1 he will be called up to hurl t-shirts into the Wrigley Field bleachers.

Pitcher guilty of felonious assault [Dayton Daily News]

This story's wormed its way into the national spotlight and, not surprisingly, has been used as more ammunition for people to blame this incident on Philadelphia's collective troglodyte fan base instead of focusing on the three shitzoids who killed the kid. Colin Cowherd apparently blamed the incident on Philadelphia's "low college matriculation rate" whatever that means.

This fight began in the bar when one group attending a bachelor party and another group of men on a Phillies bus trip sponsored by a Fishtown bar began getting all huffy over a spilled drink and then were thrown out of the place. The fight turned physical out in the parking lot, where the Fishtown three (again, say it with me, allegedly) pounced on 22-year-old David Sale, the brother of the bride, held him down and repeatedly kicked him in the head. Here's David Sale:

He certainly looks quarrelsome. Allegedly.

But, again, this type of thing could have happened at any ballpark in the country (it has, in case you forgot) so let's consider this a pretty tragic incident that happened at one stadium as opposed to, you know, blaming it on the college matriculation rate.

Cops Searching For Third Suspect In Ballpark Beating [NBCPhiladelphia]