Connors charged over altercation
Published: Thu, Nov. 27, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Thu, Nov. 27, 2008 01:41AM
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closeTennis great Jimmy Connors has been charged with a misdemeanor for an altercation last week before a basketball game between UC Santa Barbara and top-ranked North Carolina.
Connors, an eight-time Grand Slam champion, was charged Wednesday in Santa Barbara (Calif.) Superior Court with disrupting campus activities and refusing to leave a university facility.
His business manager, Karen Scott, says a man tried to pick a fight with Connors and his son before Friday's game and police asked him to leave. Scott says Connors was arrested after he said he wanted to wait for his son to finish watching the game.
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She says he was "extremely disappointed and embarrassed."
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