The holiday weekend is over, and it's time, for now, to put the Sammy-Davey thing to rest (but at least check out what Tom Boswell of the Post wrote about the Orioles today). Same for the NCAA lacrosse Final Four, but not before congratulating Johns Hopkins, again, and not before wondering how Duke's loss is going to affect the campaign for a memorial to its fallen heroes down on the Mall in Washington. And, for now, the less said about Michael Vick and his hobby, the better.

Now it's time to ask the fans, the paying customers, the people who have the final word on the deeds and misdeeds of athletes everywhere: when are you gonna get your act together?

After the disgrace at the end of the Spurs-Jazz playoff game in Salt Lake last night, it had better be soon. Everybody has plenty to say about the players when an incident like the brawl in Auburn Hills takes place, but to this day, very little is said about the acts by fans in the stands that not only started it, but escalated it. The thrown cup, the thrown chair, the thrown beer and food, the people running out of the stands and onto the court. All sorts of rules and policies were put in place to rein in the players, and one of them bit the league in the rear a couple of weeks ago in the Spurs-Suns series.

But as far as the fans go, it's business as usual. No one seems to want to rein them in. No one seems to want to really call them out. No one seems to want to hold them accountable for their low-class, low-rent actions. Yeah, yeah, the players make a lot of money, they should be able to take it, you pay a lot for your ticket and it gives you the right to do this and that, blah blah blah.

But c'mon. Your team is losing, you don't like some of the calls, you can't take the fact that your team is choking and your coach is melting down and your players are cheap-shotting opponents in retaliation, so you start throwing things on the court?

The last scene from the arena post-game last night was of Spurs players ducking their heads and, inexplicably, looking up to their left as they went through the tunnel to the locker rooms. Something was going on up in (or coming out of) the stands there, but ESPN never addressed it. Michele Tafoya then came on and said she wasn't able to get any post-game interviews because Gregg Popovich was trying to herd everybody into the tunnel to avoid the hurled objects. According to one report, Bruce Bowen did get hit.

You go, Jazz fans, support your team by any means necessary. Be the Sixth Man, without fear of punishment.

Some 10 hours later, it's still being treated as a footnote. Here's one exception, from CBS Sportsline. Understandably, the main story was the way the Jazz completely lost their poise at the end. But the fans were no less of a story. They acted ignorant, and it's not the first time, contrary to what the above column implies - back in the late '90s, when the Jazz were always playing deep in the playoffs, fans there rarely hesitated to reach as deeply into their bag of insults and stereotypes as possible, from what they said to the signs they waved. To their credit, they didn't make this a nightly occurrence throughout the regular season, but the playoffs definitely were a different story. Even this postseason, the Warriors' Stephen Jackson accused those fans of hurling racial epithets.

But not until last night, from what I can recall, did they ever resort to throwing objects at the players.

Then again, if nobody talks about it afterward, did it really happen? Or does it only become a real, tangible act when players snap and retaliate? When they become the villains and the poor, paying customers the "innocent'' victims?