I'm thinking most rivalry games could be canceled, if this is the reasoning. The University of Utah has announced it won't play BYU in basketball next year, due to the danger. One of BYU's players took a swing at a Utah player in this year's game.
There is a danger someone will get angry and take a swing in any basketball game. One could argue, then, we should cancel them all. Rivalry games are especially intense. The BYU-Utah rivalry doesn't stand alone in the realm of rivalries in which players have taken swings at each other. So, why not cancel them all? Once the intensity of playing a foe reaches rivalry status, that signifies the game has reached the level where it should be canceled, right?
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