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Rod Allen had Mario Impemba in choke hold during fracas

They have been a baseball broadcast team for 16 years, but now Mario Impemba and Rod Allen, as well as Fox Sports Detroit, are dealing with the aftermath of a physical fracas following Tuesday night’s Tigers-White Sox game in Chicago.

Impemba and Allen had to be separated after they had an immediate postgame flare-up in which Allen had Impemba in a choke hold, a source familiar with the event told The Detroit News. The source requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the incident.

The nature of their tussle was not known, but the source said the two men had been in a heated pre-game exchange within the FSD booth at U.