Sports Official Arrested

[Illini_Ref]

The Deputy obtained written statements from two school employees and conferred with his supervisor first.

Being both a cop and an official, I have to side witht eh Deputy here. The Deputy took the offenders out of the playing area. Mr. Knapp (who is a great official BTW) should have left well enough alone. Sometimes when you go searching for a battle you find one. I can assure you that, as an officer, if I am trying to assist an official and take care of an unruly fan, the official needs to let me handle it. If you get into the middle of an incident that I am handling, and you grab me, you will probably go to jail.

This is all southern Illinois needs. There have been two incidents that I remember happening recently where officials were attacked. Then there was the riot at Cairo in the Regional. Now this!