Former Cavs center Chris Dudley was one of the men allegedly involved in a bar fight in Connecticut in the 1980s alongside Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, according to reporting by the New York Times. A witness to the fight, which occurred after a UB40 concert in 1985 during Kavanaugh’s junior year at Yale, said that Dudley threw a glass and hit a man in the ear after Kavanaugh allegedly threw ice on him “for some unknown reason.” Dudley has reportedly denied the accusation. Dudley played basketball for Yale, and began his NBA career with the Cavaliers from 1987 to 1990. In 2010, he was the Republican nominee for the Governor of Oregon.<doc-sep>UB40 singer Ali Campbell spoke with The Guardian about finding himself and his band roped into the latest controversy surrounding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. On Monday, The New York Times uncovered a police report that detailed Kavanaugh’s involvement in a 1985 bar fight when he was a junior at Yale University. The altercation not only took place after a UB40 concert, but broke out because Kavanaugh and his friends were trying to figure out whether another man at the bar was Campbell. When the man – who was not Campbell – told them to stop staring at him, Kavanaugh reportedly threw ice at him. “I first found out that my name was being dragged into the biggest news story of the year when I woke up and my wife came in and said: ‘What’s all this about you and Brett Kavanaugh?,'” Campbell told The Guardian. “I said: ‘I have absolutely no idea.’ Then people started ringing up asking for a comment on this supposed ruckus in a bar between him and someone who looked like me in 1985. My obvious comment is: ‘It wasn’t me! '” While Campbell insisted that he would’ve remembered someone throwing ice at him, he also noted that he rarely went out after UB40’s concerts. “We did more than 1,000 shows in the US in the Eighties,” he said. “They blur into one another, but the last thing I would do is go to the bar over the road after a show – I jump straight into a car and go back to the hotel.” Campbell noted that he’d been following the tumultuous Kavanaugh confirmation process during UB40’s recent North American tour, and spoke on the sexual assault allegations that have been leveled against the nominee. “American politics seems particularly unsavoury at the moment: it’s at an all-time low,” he said. “I don’t know the bloke, so I don’t know whether he’s innocent or guilty, but I wouldn’t support anyone assaulting women.” Campbell closed with a sly remark about Kavanaugh’s UB40 fandom. While he insisted that the band welcomes everyone to their shows – “so long as they leave their politics at the door” – he remarked, “It is a big surprise to find out that Kavanaugh used to come to see us in his Yale days. You don’t expect a rightwing Republican to follow a leftwing reggae socialist band from Birmingham. But we used to sing about really heavy stuff and wrap it up in frothy, happy tunes, so a lot of people got into us who had no idea what we were singing about. Maybe he just loves reggae… and didn’t listen to our lyrics.”<doc-sep>NEW HAVEN, CT — U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was questioned by New Haven Police after a 1985 incident at a local bar. Kavanaugh along with four other men were questioned by police, according to the New York Times. Kavanaugh wasn't arrested, but another man accused him of throwing ice at him. A witness told police that Kavanaugh's friend Chris Dudley threw a glass that hit a man. The incident happened at a bar named Demery's.<doc-sep>
British reggae band UB40 have found themselves ensnared in the latest probe into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s collegial drinking habits following a report that Kavanaugh and some Yale classmates were involved in a bar fight following a UB40 concert in September 1985. The New York Times reports that the altercation took place at a bar in New Haven, Connecticut – where Yale University resides – during Kavanaugh’s junior year at the college. According to the police report from the incident, Kavanaugh instigated the altercation by throwing ice at another man “for some unknown reason”; the New York Times states that Kavanaugh and his friends – which included future NBA player Chris Dudley – were trying to determine whether the man was UB40 singer Ali Campbell. Chad Ludington, Kavanaugh’s Yale classmate and fellow member of the school’s basketball team, initially issued a statement Sunday that detailed the incident, however Ludington accused Kavanaugh of throwing his beer, and not ice, at the man. “The guy swung at Brett,” Ludington said, adding that Dudley “took his beer and smashed it into the head of the guy, who by now had Brett in an embrace. I then tried to pull Chris back, and a bunch of other guys tried to pull the other guy back. I don’t know what Brett was doing in the melee, but there was blood, there was glass, there was beer and there was some shouting, and the police showed up.” Neither UB40, which turned Neil Diamond’s “Red, Red Wine” and Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love With You” into Hot 100-topping hits, nor former lead singer Ali Campbell have commented on the latest Kavanaugh report. A representative for Campbell did not respond to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment.