A man who stabbed a University of Connecticut football player during a fight in which another player was killed was sentenced Friday to 2½ years in prison after apologizing for what he called "senseless violence." Hakim Muhammad, 22, of Bloomfield was sentenced in Rockville Superior Court after pleading guilty to second-degree assault and hindering prosecution. He will serve 2½ years of special parole after the prison time. Muhammad apologized for stabbing UConn player Brian Parker during an October 2009 fight on the Storrs campus. Parker suffered a minor stab wound in the back. Parker's teammate, Jasper Howard, was fatally stabbed in the abdomen by Muhammad's friend, John Lomax III, who was sentenced last month to 18 years in prison for manslaughter. Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6307670
