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Sunday, December 17, 2006

Wide World of Sports

I can't pick on the NBA for tonight's Knicks/Nuggets melee: no universities involved.

I'll make due with the two thousand students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who rioted on Friday after their football team lost a game. They

poured out of buildings and began setting fires, smashing windows, and throwing rocks and cans of beer after the university’s football team lost the Division I-AA football championship to Appalachian State University Friday night. State police were called to help university officers quell the two-and-a-half-hour disturbance, according to a university statement, and two officers were treated for bruises after being hit. More than 60 officers in riot gear used pepper spray, smoke, and other tactics to break up the gathering.


Lots of people - police and students - were hurt.

Some rioters threw bicycles -- at the police, and at their horses.

In a shocking development, the university revealed the students were drunk.
Posted at: 12/17/2006 12:28:00 AM