{"id":3056,"date":"2004-11-21T23:44:40","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T23:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgtstryker.com\/index.php\/archives\/a-72-game-suspension\/"},"modified":"2004-11-21T23:44:40","modified_gmt":"2004-11-21T23:44:40","slug":"a-72-game-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/a-72-game-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"A 72 Game Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA has just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/sports\/nba\/20041121-1459-bkn-pacers-pistonsbrawl.html\">suspended the Pacers&#8217; Ron Artest for the rest of the season<\/a> &#8211; <b>great<\/b>! I hope the Pacers dock his pay for it too.<\/p>\n<p>This offense was inexcusable. Whatever the fans are yelling or throwing, you don&#8217;t go into the stands.<\/p>\n<p>Our other major professional sports, particularly basketball, should really take a lesson from NASCAR. of course, it&#8217;s a different situation with auto racing (at least in the US, those F1 guys are another story). Do you think a big corporation like Lowe&#8217;s, Kellogg&#8217;s, or Procter and Gamble is going to put out millions in sponsorship money if the driver doesn&#8217;t have a squeaky-clean image?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA has just suspended the Pacers&#8217; Ron Artest for the rest of the season &#8211; great! I hope the Pacers dock his pay for it too. This offense was inexcusable. Whatever the fans are yelling or throwing, you don&#8217;t go into the stands. Our other major professional sports, particularly basketball, should really take a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}