<table> </table> Another reminder why it can be a bad idea to trust the blogosphere for reliable information.</p><p>Because contrary to an &#8220;exclusive&#8221; report in a local blog, it wasn&#8217;t former Chiefs receiver Eddie Kennison who saved an 81-year-old umpire supervisor from being beaten up by an irate coach at a 3&amp;2 baseball game last Friday.</p><p>It was another former Chiefs player, Mark Collins, who stepped in, I learned when I checked into the story.</p><p>And the umpire was 79, not 81, as the blog said.</p><p>And the old guy didn&#8217;t have a bad hip. Nor was he curled up in a fetal position on the ground to protect himself from a fusillade of punches.</p><p>Nor for that matter was the coach arrested for tugging on the official&#8217;s arm, which was the extent of the physical contact, according to Shawnee police.</p><p>But otherwise, everything else in the blog report (further spread on radio broadcasts) was right on the money.</p><p>Don&#8217;t you love the Internet? So much information. So much of it utter tripe.</p><p>Not saying there aren&#8217;t some good, reliable blogs out there. Even the blogger in question gets it right occasionally.</p><p>But many citizen journalists, as they like to call themselves, should have their keyboards confiscated. They&#8217;re too busy telling a good story to ever bother checking their facts.</p><p>Thing of it is, what actually happened during that game between two teams of 10-year-olds is a tale worth telling. Even with the more dramatic &#8212; and false &#8212; details removed, it fits nicely into the genre of parents who take kids&#8217; sports way too seriously.</p><p>This particular incident began the way so many of these stories do, with some hothead complaining about what he perceived as a bad call.</p><p>The coach acknowledges he overreacted. Yes, I talked with him, as I talked with Collins, other witnesses and the cops. (Note to bloggers: Pick up the phone now and then, why don&#8217;t you?)</p><p>And the irate coach said he regretted losing his cool.</p><p>&#8220;I understand how completely wrong I am in this,&#8221; said the man, whom I won&#8217;t identify because it&#8217;s the paper&#8217;s policy to withhold names of suspects until they have been formally charged.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m afraid this incident will lead to the end of my involvement in 3&amp;2 after 10 years of such &#8230;</p><p>&#8220;I hate bringing hate and shame to myself and my family. In hindsight, all I had to do was walk away.&#8221;</p><p>A good lesson for us all. Instead, this coach allegedly grabbed the umpire supervisor by the arm, after the latter made a call the coach didn&#8217;t like.</p><p>Grabbed him so hard that it left a bruise.</p><p>Then he allegedly grabbed the man&#8217;s shoulders, which is when Collins and two others, including a retired Overland Park police officer, got between them.</p><p>&#8220;It was wild, man,&#8221; said Collins, who played cornerback for the Chiefs in the mid-1990s. &#8220;This coach just didn&#8217;t let it go.&#8221;</p><p>Or want to let go, either, according to Frank Cappo, the former OP cop who informed the coach that it was a crime to lay his hands on umpire supervisor Bob Heidenburg.</p><p>&#8220;He finally realized that he was way out of line and started walking away,&#8221; Cappo said.</p><p>That&#8217;s not going to be the end of it. The coach may be banned from the facility.</p><p>And because he wants to send a message that this kind of stupid behavior won&#8217;t be tolerated, Heidenburg plans to press a charge of battery.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been out there 34 years at 3&amp;2,&#8221; Heidenburg told me. &#8220;And I have never been assaulted by a player, a coach, a fan, a manager in all that time. This doesn&#8217;t happen. But when it does happen, you&#8217;ve got to follow up.&#8221;</p><p>For the record, 3&amp;2 takes the incident seriously and works hard to highlight the importance of good sportsmanship, executive director Jeff Chalk told me.</p><p>&#8220;Overall it&#8217;s been a below-average year in the number of ejections,&#8221; Chalk said. &#8220;Probably less than a dozen.&#8221;</p><p>As for Kennison, yeah, he was there that day, cheering on his kid, who plays for the coach who couldn&#8217;t keep his hands to himself. I couldn&#8217;t reach Kennison, but no one remembers him intervening.</p><p>&#8220;Eddie Kennison didn&#8217;t stop anything,&#8221; Cappo said.</p><p>Well, he did stop playing for the Chiefs, but that&#8217;s another story.