Tough Saturday. Nevada basketball player Tyrone Hanson was beaten unconscious and robbed at a Halloween party in Reno on Saturday night where three people were shot to death. Hanson, who has since been released from a local hospital, has been kicked off the basketball team because head coach Mark Fox told his players not to go out that night. Hanson had violated team rules earlier in the year and the second miscue was too much for Fox. Although he didn???t do anything wrong at the party, Hanson just wasn???t supposed to be there, and will now pay the price. It seems to be a hard lesson for a kid who is recovering from a brutal beating, but he isn???t crying foul. Do you think the punishment is too severe? Should coaches be able to dictate when their players go out and when they don???t?

Pass the baton. Haverford???s men???s cross country team won its 15th consecutive Centennial Conference championship on Saturday, finishing well in front of second-place Dickinson. A pair of Haverford runners led the pack and headed into the final stretch in the lead, on their way to a certain one-two finish. Before the line, senior Ian Ramsey-North slowed by a step to allow classmate Donald Letts to finish first and claim the individual conference crown. Last year, Letts slowed down at the finish line to allow senior Zachary Vaslow to be the individual champion. In 2005, Grant Scott allowed Ramsey-North to finish first and the senior wanted to pass forward the favor to his friend Donald this time around. Stepping aside to allow a teammate to win an individual conference championship is quite an unselfish act ??? and an unusual tradition. But if Haverford keeps on winning conference titles, can anybody argue with the practice?

Good news for cheeseheads. Wisconsin sports fans have much more to cheer about than the 6-1 Green Bay Packers. On Monday, Charter Communications announced the launch of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) channel through its Video On-Demand service. The channel will feature athletics events from one of the premier conferences in the country and is the first initiative of its kind in Division III. A variety of sports will be broadcast, including football, basketball, swimming, wrestling, volleyball and track and field.