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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 4174500, member: 966"]
Handshake lines are good. One incident every thousand NCAA games and a few every 50,000 high school games is not a reason to cancel them. Character is still a thing. Not being able to deal with a loss and act like a human being with perspective shouldn’t be the new normal.

I‘m kinda sick of these adults being unable to handle those nebulous ‘unwritten rules,’ across all sports. And, at the same time, I can understand how people take offense to what might seem like little **** to casual onlookers. These coaches and players are involved in this event emotionally, so a bit of ‘disrespect‘ is amplified versus what we experience. I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often. In baseball, they settle it by throwing at you, and that, somehow, is accepted. In hockey, you throw the gloves down. No recourse in most other sports, though, so this happens.

Not an excuse for this, but we have to recognize context and that there isn’t an even ‘playing field’ across all sports.

Howard should be suspended for a significant period for the first level of this, but probably fired for the ‘second strike’ and ’third strike’ being the result, which inevitably led to players being involved in the escalation.
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