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SickDSM

09-12-2004, 10:56 PM

How about this one?

www.insidehoops.com/nba_rumors.shtml (http://www.insidehoops.com/nba_rumors.shtml)

9/12/04

Jim Stack, the former St. Laurence High School and Northwestern University basketball star--and the brand new general manager of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves--didn't belong in that courtroom the other day. The NBA executive was too buttoned down to fit in with the petty shoplifters, the greasy indecent exposers and the drunks. But Stack sat with them, a public man amid their anonymously small and tawdry stories. Stack was accused, tried and convicted in a bench trial Friday of misdemeanor battery for punching a boy's baseball coach in the face, knocking the much smaller man down at a youth baseball tournament in Schaumburg on the 4th of July." Chicago Tribune

"According to witnesses, on the evening of July 4 in Schaumburg, a team of 9-year-old All Stars from Barrington--a team that included Stack's son--had finished a tournament game. A team of 14-year-old stars from the Darien Youth Club was warming up on the sidelines. When the 9-year-olds' game had ended, a parent from the little kids' team brought out some water balloons. Some of the kids ran through the area where the 14-year-olds were throwing. Rather than tell the 9-year-olds to keep away from the older boys, Stack admonished Mitchell and the teenagers." Chicago Tribune

"I told them please be careful, you've got strong arms, and our kids with the water balloons were running around like wild Indians," Stack testified. "I was worried that something bad would happen." Something did. "He started walking toward me," Stack said, "He had a clenched fist and I put my hand up to protect myself and unfortunately made contact with him. I was worried that he would roundhouse me or something." But Judge Kavitt didn't buy it. And he heard witnesses say that it was Stack who strode up angrily to Mitchell." Chicago Tribune