Duke - Goodbye Season 2006?

[Minotaur]

I hope Inside Lacrosse is ready to finally put an indepth investigative piece together about the events currently unfolding at Duke involving rape allegations and the men's lacrosse team. There are a myriad of issues wrapt up in this....I love the magazine, but have been hoping the writers would sink their teeth into issues that have always been around this game. Not that I think the magazine should be turned into a scandal sheet, but enough with the fluff and starry eyed player profiles. Put those journalistic skills to work & good luck!

[WHEELAX2]

they might be a little busy beefing up TLF and writing happy articles about the growth of lacrosse ans "stuff"... I suspect you won't be hearing much negative lacrosse talk in the magazine for years..

[atacklax]

Yea, IL doesn't need to publicize the affair. Mothers will read it and not want their kids playing. It will give lacrosse players a bad name.

[smooth87]

Mothers also watch the news.

[whateverusay]

Well one thing is for sure. The elephant in the room is being ignored, and millions of people around the world are finding out what Lacrosse is, for the wrong reasons.
Seems like the rooms on this site are claming up like the Duke team.

[stegmakk]

There just isn't anything newsworthy as of right now.
Lots of accusations from the alleged victim.
Duke players are silent thus their story is not in public yet.
DNA has not come back yet. The DA sounds like he is going to keep all evidence from the press from now on.
So unfortunately at this point there is no story worth printing.
A news source does not want to speculate in print because if they are wrong, the backlash would be bad.

And yes there is also the fact that most stories are of the happy stuff, and none of the dirty stuff of the sport. But this is a secondary reason to all of the first stuff.
I had prepared something but decided to hold off because it is a controversial view, and i did not want to get anyone in trouble or sued.

[grlaxcoach]

Do you feel any differently now that Pressler has resigned, the season has been cancelled and the warrant has been released?

[pantherLax]

I was really scared it would be in SI, which i got today. I skimed through it and thankfully found none about the scandal. Like stegmakk said though, as things become more clear, im sure it will be in big name, more popular mags like Sports Illustrated...

[goalieskcickay]

Yea, IL doesn't need to publicize the affair. Mothers will read it and not want their kids playing. It will give lacrosse players a bad name.

IMHO It's better to publicly disown it, and agree that they did a heinous thing and should be punished to the full extent of the law. That way, lacrosse comes off as a serious sport, rather than a spring fling for dumb jocks. :banghead:

[FallIntoIt]

IMHO It's better to publicly disown it, and agree that they did a heinous thing and should be punished to the full extent of the law. That way, lacrosse comes off as a serious sport, rather than a spring fling for dumb jocks. :banghead:


Whoa, whoa, whoa. You're charging the accused when that's not your job!
a. Everyone is still "innocent" in the sense that the DNA isn't back yet, so nobody knows if the victim isn't just trying to stir stuff up.
b. The magazine shouldn't (and I imagine - won't) take any steps to say that the Duke team did anything, including publicly say that they need to be punished, because nobody knows what the deal is yet.
c. No matter what anyone says now, the sensationalizing media has done enough damage in the public's mind. Especially if it turns out that any members of the team did anything.

[mrmccool]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. You're charging the accused when that's not your job!
a. Everyone is still "innocent" in the sense that the DNA isn't back yet, so nobody knows if the victim isn't just trying to stir stuff up.
b. The magazine shouldn't (and I imagine - won't) take any steps to say that the Duke team did anything, including publicly say that they need to be punished, because nobody knows what the deal is yet.
c. No matter what anyone says now, the sensationalizing media has done enough damage in the public's mind. Especially if it turns out that any members of the team did anything.
DA's usually don't express confidence that a sexual assault occured unless they have something. I still want the whole thing to come out, and now. My roommate and I were thinking about the consequences if found guilty: going from a rich white school and being the favored team in the nation to being a rich white kid in north carolina jail convicted of raping a black girl with racial angles.... not fun.

[Lkantola]

I was really scared it would be in SI, which i got today. I skimed through it and thankfully found none about the scandal. Like stegmakk said though, as things become more clear, im sure it will be in big name, more popular mags like Sports Illustrated...


hmmmm im almost completely sure i read about it in SI earlier this week....hold on lemme check


yaaaaaa its actually on page 16 of the May issue of SI...dno what issue u were talking aobut too lazy to check date of post etc.
but that aside there is a 2 page spread with crappy drawing that makes lacrosse players seem stereotypically bad.
the article seems pretty observational and unobjective. Unfortunatly it ends saying "There may now be a third party [of lacrosse players] ..... who wants the privilege without having to practice the value."

I don't like the publicity lacrosse is getting now