Duke: America's Team? Feel Good Story of the Year?
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Duke: America's Team? Feel Good Story of the Year?
Posted by: CornellFan (---.nyc.megapath.net)
Date: May 25, 2007 09:10AM
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Give me a break, please. These guys had a disgusting party with under-aged kids drinking, complete with strippers. This is America's team? A feel good story? Was O.J. the feel good story of the year when the jury found him innocent?
The Duke kids did not commit a rape, but I am getting tired of the media celebrating them.
America's team are the kids wearing the Red from Cornell, playing without scholarships, and actually having to overcome an academic index for admission.
Give me a break, please. These guys had a disgusting party with under-aged kids drinking, complete with strippers. This is America's team? A feel good story? Was O.J. the feel good story of the year when the jury found him innocent?
The Duke kids did not commit a rape, but I am getting tired of the media celebrating them.
America's team are the kids wearing the Red from Cornell, playing without scholarships, and actually having to overcome an academic index for admission.
Re: Duke: America's Team? Feel Good Story of the Year?
Posted by: CornellFan (---.nyc.megapath.net)
Date: May 25, 2007 09:11AM
Re: Duke: America's Team? Feel Good Story of the Year?
Posted by: Chris '03 (---.hsd1.ct.comcast.net)
Date: May 25, 2007 09:47AM
The Duke media darlings story has to at least be in part due to the enormous guilt bearing down on all those in the media who wanted to crucify them a year ago for a rape that never happened.
Re: Duke: America's Team? Feel Good Story of the Year?
Posted by: Josh '99 (---.net)
Date: May 25, 2007 10:19AM
Oh no, under-aged drinking? Surely nobody at CORNELL has ever done that.CornellFan
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=125372&ran=219623
Give me a break, please. These guys had a disgusting party with under-aged kids drinking, complete with strippers. This is America's team? A feel good story? Was O.J. the feel good story of the year when the jury found him innocent?
The Duke kids did not commit a rape, but I am getting tired of the media celebrating them.
America's team are the kids wearing the Red from Cornell, playing without scholarships, and actually having to overcome an academic index for admission.
Re: Duke: America's Team? Feel Good Story of the Year?
Posted by: ugarte (38.136.14.---)
Date: May 25, 2007 11:23AM
Seriously. It isn't quite as bad as falsely accusing the players of rape, but the Puritans acting shocked! shocked! at booze and strippers at a college party and trying to turn that into a separate smear against the players are pretty goddamn annoying.Josh '99Oh no, under-aged drinking? Surely nobody at CORNELL has ever done that.CornellFan
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=125372&ran=219623
Give me a break, please. These guys had a disgusting party with under-aged kids drinking, complete with strippers. This is America's team? A feel good story? Was O.J. the feel good story of the year when the jury found him innocent?
The Duke kids did not commit a rape, but I am getting tired of the media celebrating them.
America's team are the kids wearing the Red from Cornell, playing without scholarships, and actually having to overcome an academic index for admission.
I'm not saying the Dukies deserve medals, but if there haven't been more than a handful of similar parties thrown at Cornell this year, I'd be sincerely shocked.
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Re: Duke: America's Team? Feel Good Story of the Year?
Posted by: KeithK (---.external.lmco.com)
Date: May 25, 2007 12:37PM
Exactly. After what the team and the three players were put through but both Nifong and the the media (not to mention the Duke community) they deserve a little bit of positive coverage.Chris '03
The Duke media darlings story has to at least be in part due to the enormous guilt bearing down on all those in the media who wanted to crucify them a year ago for a rape that never happened.
They also deserve to lose in the semis, but that's beside the point.
Re: Duke: America's Team? Feel Good Story of the Year?
Posted by: schoaff (---.endlessloopsoftware.com)
Date: May 25, 2007 01:16PM
CornellFan
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=125372&ran=219623
Give me a break, please. These guys had a disgusting party with under-aged kids drinking, complete with strippers.
I have no problem with the kids drinking or hiring strippers. However they were rude to the strippers and that's just wrong.
Re: Duke: America's Team? Feel Good Story of the Year?
Posted by: marty (---.nycap.res.rr.com)
Date: May 25, 2007 01:31PM
ugarteSeriously. It isn't quite as bad as falsely accusing the players of rape, but the Puritans acting shocked! shocked! at booze and strippers at a college party and trying to turn that into a separate smear against the players are pretty goddamn annoying.Josh '99Oh no, under-aged drinking? Surely nobody at CORNELL has ever done that.CornellFan
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=125372&ran=219623
Give me a break, please. These guys had a disgusting party with under-aged kids drinking, complete with strippers. This is America's team? A feel good story? Was O.J. the feel good story of the year when the jury found him innocent?
The Duke kids did not commit a rape, but I am getting tired of the media celebrating them.
America's team are the kids wearing the Red from Cornell, playing without scholarships, and actually having to overcome an academic index for admission.
I'm not saying the Dukies deserve medals, but if there haven't been more than a handful of similar parties thrown at Cornell this year, I'd be sincerely shocked.
All true, but I'm taking bets that there won't be strippers at any booze party attended by the lacrosse team in the foreseeable future.
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