Initially, Madison, Wisc., police characterized the early morning incident that briefly hospitalized Wisconsin?s All-American tailback, Montee Ball, earlier this week as “an unprovoked assault” by five unidentified attackers. As the layers of the onion are peeled back, though, it seems increasingly likely that Ball was targeted specifically in retaliation to a previous incident involving Badger players ? if not necessarily involving Ball himself.
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