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March 07, 2008

When College Sports Fans Get Out Of Hand

College basketball games have always been rowdy events where students pack arenas and cheer at ear-splitting volume. A fired-up student body can give the home team an advantage. But there's cheering and there's, well, something else. What students did at the University of Oregon on Jan. 24 and at the University of Illinois on Feb. 7 went way over the line. College administrators teach students a terrible lesson when they fail to stop obscenities, one-finger salutes and harassment of visiting players' families. Read more at:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/03/our-view-on-fan.html

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Some of these college basketball fans really cross the line....I've heard stalking players to find out info

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