Tackle or Attack?

• Position: Sports injuries that border on assault - Brief Article

Slamming a stranger to the ground is an assault, unless you do it in a football game. If there's a line, 17-year-old Robert Mammone came close to crossing it. In what's believed to be the first such case in football, the high school senior from Hewlett, New York, was arrested and charged with assault for a particularly violent play that broke an opponent's elbow.

The prosecutor recently dropped the...