Duke: America's Team? Feel Good Story of the Year?

[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.

[CornellFan]

Another story...

http://www.news-daily.com/sports/local_story_144223259.html?keyword=topstory

[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.

[Josh '99]

[quote 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.[/quote]Oh no, under-aged drinking?  Surely nobody at CORNELL has ever done that.

[ugarte]

[quote Josh '99][quote 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.[/quote]Oh no, under-aged drinking?  Surely nobody at CORNELL has ever done that.[/quote]
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.

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.

[KeithK]

[quote 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.[/quote]
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.

They also deserve to lose in the semis, but that's beside the point.

[schoaff]

[quote 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.[/quote]

I have no problem with the kids drinking or hiring strippers. However they were rude to the strippers and that's just wrong.

[marty]

[quote ugarte][quote Josh '99][quote 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.[/quote]Oh no, under-aged drinking?  Surely nobody at CORNELL has ever done that.[/quote]
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.

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.[/quote]

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.