The American magazine, Sports Illustrated, reports that a college basketball team has recently had two games abandoned - the first because one of its players brandished a chair and threatened a referee and the second following a bench-clearing brawl with the opposition. Nothing unusual you might think, given the alarming propensity of United States student athletes for over-the-top and antisocial behaviour. But you would think they might manage slightly more restrained behaviour at an institution called National Christian University.