Sports column gets basketball fight all wrong
Friday, Nov. 19: It was a pleasant night at our apartment. We were entertaining plenty of slightly tipsy, rather joyful bright young men and women, listening to Mos Def's new jam and preparing to head out to our friend's 21st birthday party. The Television was playing an entertaining basketball game between two heated NBA rivals, the Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers. The Pacers had begun to pull away and sealed up the game. On a meaningless fast break with less than a minute to go, Ron Artest fouled Ben Wallace probably a little too hard as Big Ben swooped in for the dunk. Wallace was pissed and shoved Artest hard in the face, which prompted a "WHOA!" from the crowd in Apartment 618.