The Sunflower Series turned gruesome Tuesday night at stately Allen Fieldhouse. The Kansas State-Kansas game ended in an ugly brawl that resulted in a variety of suspensions and a black eye for the Kansas schools, the Big 12 and college basketball itself. Are we having more brawls than ever before? Seems like it. Steelers-Browns. Nevada/Nevada-Las Vegas. KU/K-State. All in the past three months. But heck, we’ve always had sports brawls. Juan Marichal hitting John Roseboro over the head with a baseball bat in 1965. Kermit Washington decking Rudy Tomjanovich with a vicious punch in 1976. Hockey brawls long have been a fabric of the game. Baseball brawls are not rare. NASCAR pits often have become boxing rings. The Malice in the Palace – the 2004 Pacers-Pistons brawl — became the NBA’s most famous fight, but there have been others. Carmelo Anthony once cold-cocked mild-mannered Jared Jeffries and turned him into…
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