City Royals at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Royals first base coach Tom Gamboa was violently assaulted by 34-year-old William Ligue Jr. and his 15-year-old son, William Ligue III. November 23 – As tensions between the two teams built throughout a penalty-filled college football game between Hawaii and Cincinnati at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, a controversial late hit on the already injured Hawaii quarterback Timmy Chang caused a bench-clearing brawl which also involved both teams' mascots. Cincinnati's athletic director Bob Goin accused Hawaii fans of threatening Cincinnati players, coaches, and cheerleaders, and police used pepper spray on fans who threw beer cups and garbage at Cincinnati players after the game. 2003 April 15 – During a game between the Chicago White Sox and the Kansas City Royals in Chicago, a fan ran onto the field (mid-play) and tried to tackle umpire Laz Diaz; Diaz, a former Marine, easily threw the fan to the ground. April 19 – Texas Rangers right fielder Carl Everett was hit in the back of a head by a cell phone at Oakland's Network Associates Coliseum. The male fan who threw the phone was arrested. April 26 – During a League One match between Queens Park Rangers F.C. and Crewe at Loftus Road, a beer can and a coin were thrown at the referee, Andy Hall; at the end of the match, which ended in a 0–0 draw that ensured Crewe's promotion and saw two QPR players ejected, a pitch invasion occurred, with a QPR fan running onto the pitch to remonstrate with and abuse Hall before being ejected from the arena. May 17 – During a Czech First League association football match between AC Sparta Prague and FC Bohemians Prague, a drunk fan climbed over the fence, ran onto the pitch, and repeatedly hit an assistant referee with fists (after Bohemians conceded a goal from a suspected offside). The match was abandoned and afterwards forfeited as a 3–0 win for Sparta, with Sparta claiming the league championship and Bohemians losing the last chance of avoiding relegation to the second league; the fan was later jailed for three years (for this and other offenses). October 11 – At the end of a college football game between the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Missouri Tigers in Columbia, Missouri, celebrating Missouri fans invaded the field, and Nebraska cornerback Kellen Huston punched a Missouri fan, Matthew Scott, in the face, knocking