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" Back in my daily sportswriting days, I covered a lot of college basketball in the Big East Conference and, thus, spent a lot of time in Syracuse. (Professionally, I go back to the pre-Pearl Washington, Manley Field House days.) Hence, I spent a lot of time talking with Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, who has his detractors, but whom I always liked. Last night, he won his 900th game as a college coach. He marked the occasion by stepping into our ongoing national debate. &amp;quot;If one person in this world; the NRA president, anybody, can tell me why we need assault weapons with 30 shots in the thing...&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;This is our fault. This is my fault and your fault. All of your faults if we don&amp;#039;t get out and do something about this.&amp;quot;  This is a particularly bold stand for Boeheim, given that he coaches in a part of New York state that has more in common with West Virginia than it does with Manhattan, but it does not surprise me. Since 9/11, more than a few administrators, coaches and athletes have expressed to me the concern that one of their events may be used for a statement by one of our many sociopaths with a motive, political or otherwise. (This has a little to do with the fact that so many of our athletes have armed themselves.) After all, these are people whose lives depend on regularly scheduled mass events. And, while major events like the Olympics and the Super Bowl are thick with security, the average major college football or basketball game is not, and an incident at one of those would be just as devastating. (Boeheim&amp;#039;s teams average over 30,000 people per game.) The people involved in our games have been talking among themselves about this for years. Boeheim wasn&amp;#039;t just talking gun policy there. He was talking about workplace violence, and good for him. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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