Jimmy Connors charged with Misdemeanor

Jimmy Connors has been charged with a misdemeanor involving an altercation that took place last week before a basketball game between UC Santa Barbara and North Carolina.

Connors was charged Wednesday with disrupting campus activities and refusing to leave a university facility.

An unidentified man tried to pick a fight with Connors and his son before Friday night’s game and police asked him to leave. Jimmy was arrested after he said he wanted to wait for his son to finish watching the game.

Connors is “extremely disappointed and embarrassed” about the incident, his business manager says.

Jimmy Connors Arrested!

BREAKING NEWS

Eight-time Grand Slam champ Jimmy Connors was arrested and taken into custody Friday outside the UC Santa Barbara campus after refusing to comply with an order to leave an area following a confrontation.

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