Hard to imagine more than one percent of Slashdot readers giving a lick about this. Although ESPN is about the only thing on cable or satellite that you can't get elsewhere.
Reading through these comments, it amazes me how many of them are along the line of "He deserved it" or "He tried to provoke it". If that had been President Bush or Vice-President Cheney that this incident occurred to, I would have seen the word "Nazi" in many forms at least 200 times by now in these comments. This underlines the point that the vast majority of US campuses support free speech, as long as it is left speech.