Deadspin catches this Ejection of the Week:
Missouri high-school sports officials are going to have a major incident to look into near the end of the televised match last night between Blue Springs and Lee's Summit West.
On a fourth-down play with under two minutes to go and Blue Springs up by one point, Jaylen Ivey breaks a tackle and goes 23 yards down to the LSW 8, where he is tackled.
He then gets up and shoves the defender to the ground (one flag goes down here), then kicks the defender on the ground (it is unknown if additional yardage is assessed here, but he is ejected from the game at this point).
The KSMO footage, which accompanies this article at the link I give above, then shows Ivey setting the whole "football player as thug" debate back when he basically appears to act insulted by the mere act of the defender actually making the play to stop him, and, as he gets to his bench, appears to be goading members of the audience to fight him!
The game is stopped while, I would have to think, Ivey is taken from the field. The game does continue and Blue Springs wins.
This will be worth following.
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