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...Still's group now provides "assault insurance" for its 19,000 members. And 14 states have passed laws toughening penalties for violence against officials. Hundreds of leagues also offer parental sportsmanship classes, though only a fraction of those are mandatory. In the wake of Michael Costin's death, that may soon change...
...season scrimmage for a bunch of preteen hockey nuts, hoping, perhaps, to add some power to their slapshots. On July 5, from the stands of the Burbank Ice Arena, in Reading, Mass., Thomas Junta watched his 10-year-old son shoot the puck. The kid wasn't faring well. Though contact was forbidden, an elbow nearly smashed his nose. With play getting rougher, Junta, 42, a truck driver, called down to the only adult on the ice, Michael Costin, demanding that he intervene. Costin, whose three boys were playing too, reportedly replied, "That's what hockey's all about...
...Both men, in fact, were no strangers to it. In 1992 Junta was charged with assault and battery, though there was no finding in the case. Costin's past was more troubled. While still a teenager, his father was convicted of manslaughter for stabbing his 17-year-old brother Dennis. Costin himself went to jail for offenses ranging from assaulting a police officer to breaking and entering. Recently, he seemed to be making amends. A recovering alcoholic, he had won full custody of his children, and friends say he devoted himself to their care...
...Here's how L. Brent Bozell III, chairman of the Media Research Center, described what happened next: "After the interview ended the camera inadvertently came back on the unsuspecting Gumbel... Though the audio was turned off halfway through the sentence, a sneering Gumbel let it be known what he thought of Knight's moral values: 'What a f---ing idiot...
Anyway, the ban as currently constituted is a good start, though frankly I don't see why it should take any sort of law at all to end this silly habit. I realize that many Americans have managed to convince themselves that they are so important that no one should be deprived of their attention for any amount of time, no matter how minuscule. We carry not only cell phones these days but beepers and Palm Pilots and probably some other gadgets I haven't even heard of yet. And certainly in emergencies, or if you're a doctor...