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As a side note, for once in my lifetime, ESPN finally made some intelligent remarks regarding hockey yesterday. They said that hockey is being unfairly picked on for violence, when intentional actions that have the potential to cause injury in other sports are just called "playing with intensity." What about when a pitcher throws a ball at a batter's head? This happens every year at least once. What about when that same batter throws a bat at the pitcher, then rushes the mound? How many years go by in baseball that you don't see a bench clearing brawl? Those are blips in the news, and everbody moves on, with nobody slamming the sport for being violent. Or how about when a football player spears another player with his helmet, with the potential to end that players career? Or in basketball, when a player gets hacked driving to the basket, gets up and starts swinging at that player, then when a ref tries to break it up, punches the ref and has to be tackled by many of his teammates to end the brawl? All of these events have happened, and many of them happen to lesser extent on a regular basis in these sports, but no one calls for radical changes to be made. They just agree it went too far, hand down a suspension, and go on with the game, with the same "intensity" as before.
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