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Somewhere, Andy Bernard Is Crying To His Banjo
In one corner: No. 5 Cornell (ever heard of it?) coming off a monumental upset of top-seeded Virginia, leading 9-6 with about four minutes left in the NCAA final Monday. In the other: No. 2 Syracuse, defending national champion and, for once, the late-game underdog. More »
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By Ben CohenComment by DeepFriar: As a white male of European descent who was raised in Fairfield County, CT and attended a small northeastern liberal... 28 Responses | Other threads
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Monday's Lax Final Set, No One Outside Upstate New York Notices
Syracuse slams Duke in the Greg Paulus Bowl, Cornell shocks — shocks! — No. 1 Virginia in the nightcap. There really is nothing going on today. Softball on ESPN, lacrosse on ESPN2, Bernie Williams playing jazz on YES. Plus, Daulerio's making a packing list and checking it twice. [ESPN]
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By Ben CohenComment by Chris Hanson's Axe: I sincerely wish lacrosse was a more popular sport. Its fun to watch on TV, fun to play, easy to... 7 Responses | Other threads
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More Top Cheese From Our Favorite Lacrosse Emailer
Perhaps you've seen this amusing email that's been making the rounds, authored by a former college lacrosse player who's looking for a spot on a club team. Well, he's authored another one. More »
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Comment by Donnie_Iris: In his defense, I only scored two goals my senior year for my college lacrosse team. Then again, I was... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Overtime Is Always Hardest On The Play-By-Play Man
It's a good thing that Virginia-Maryland lacrosse game ended after seven overtimes, because this poor college radio announcer might not be with us today if it hadn't. [YouTube]
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What The Heck... Let's Have A Lacrosse Fight
This post is apropos of nothing, but it's a slow news day, so why not watch a bunch of swishy indoor lacrosse players smack the crap out each other. More »
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Comment by formerly Chief Wahoo: When I played Rugby there was nothing funnier than hearing a Lax player tell you how tough their sport was. "But... 7 Responses | Other threads
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Lacrosse Cheerleaders Gotta Keep A Heads Up
You might have wondered why Major League Lacrosse would possibly need cheerleaders. Wonder no longer: Major League Lacrosse needs cheerleaders so they can be hit in the face by errant shots. Duh. More »
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By Will LeitchComment by Jen P: @BarbarobicsInstructor: Words cannot express my fondness for that video. I'm going to watch it at least 15 times this afternoon,... more » | Other threads
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Things That Draw In Denver When Attendance Is Dead
As you may or may not know (probably the latter) the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche aren't doing so well from a financial standpoint. Hell, the Broncos have already begun downsizing. For some reason the city of Denver isn't stuffing enough cash into the coffers of their pro franchises. Of course there must be a way to draw fans in Denver, and the National Lacrosse League's Denver Mammoth have found it. More » -
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He's A LumberJax And He's OK
Now you, too, can have a career in professional lacrosse. Just marry the owner! It's easy, and will result in absolutely no ribbing in the team locker room for years to come. More »
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By rickchandComment by angelabatinovich: AMBLA is a dead company, sorry no one has responded - a holding rather for all of my daddy's money.... more » | Other threads
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There Are Now No Gay Lacrosse Coaches (That We Know Of)
Kyle Hawkins coached the Unversity of Missouri men's lacrosse team for nine seasons, but only this past season was it known that he is gay. And now — surprise! — he's been fired. More »
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By rickchandComment by BoeheimIsMySavior: Ha, they finished with a 6-9 record! That's so gay! more » | Other threads
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Send In The Clowns
We have always been amused by lacrosse, which is America's oldest sport and tends to put us in the mind of butterfly collecting. It is also the only sanctioned activity in which it is legal to poke your opponent repeatedly with a stick. But we also knew that the pro version was missing one key ingredient: Drunken, loutish fans. Well, as you can see, problem solved. More »
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By rickchandComment by BoeheimIsMySavior: Wonder if they'll throw down a few trash plates to celebrate... more » | Other threads
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Duke Lacrosse Rape Charges Dropped
For those of you who still consider the Duke lacrosse rape case a sports story — we haven't for a long time; anything that makes that many people on basic cable scream into the camera immediately eliminates it from contention around here — the news just broke from Raleigh's WRAL station: Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong has dropped all rape charges in the case. More »
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By LeitchComment by ThatMarkDude: America: Innocent until proven guilty! Well...unless you are a man suspected in a sexual crime, then it is the other... more » | Other threads
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Coach K Speaks!
Our long national nightmare is over. We can all rest a bit easier now, because Coach K is finally weighing in on the Duke lacrosse case. Our parents tell us stories of how they feared world events in the 1960s would overwhelm them, and how they would tune in to the CBS news every evening, and things would seem better. Somehow, the presence of Walter Cronkite made you understand that everything would be OK. And that's the way it is on the Duke campus now that Blue Devils basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski has spoken outin full solidarity, um,in utter opposition, ah, in lukewarm, half-hearted support of the Duke players in this high-profile controversy. Among Coach K's no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners quotes: More »
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Comment by google this: BTW, about time I joined the YWML joke club: You're with me, Tawana Brawley-style, race-baiting rape hoax! more » | Other threads
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A Lovely Way To Spend Mother's Day
Todd Munson is a Deadspin reader who lives in Los Angeles and — like all good sons — went home to see his mother yesterday, in Omaha, Neb. When he was walking down Dodge Street, the main Omaha drag, he noticed the word "WHORE" on a sign hanging from the pedestrian bridge just above.
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By LeitchComment by PictureMERollins: OMG..i'm not even sure how to respond to that. No effing shit Hitler wasn't at the Nuremburg trials considering he... more » | Other threads
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Duke Lacrosse DA Not Leaving Anytime Soon
You know how much we just love to write about the Duke lacrosse case. Today's a big day in the case, though; district attorney Mike Nifong, accused by many of using the case for political gain, won the Democratic primary yesterday by a slim margin. So far there is no Republican challenger, so he's likely to serve a four-year term. More »
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By LeitchComment by boristhespider: Now that the team has been tried and convicted in the court of public opinion, it's time for Nifong to... more » | Other threads
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Jay Bilas Will Sue Your Ass
As an analyst, we've always liked ESPN's Jay Bilas. He's smart, low-key, occasionally understatedly funny and looks like the late, lamented Gob. We've been somewhat less impressed with his appearances around the ESPN loop in the last week talking about the Duke lacrosse case. He's a lifelong Dookie and seems more interested in protecting his school's reputation than anything else, though he's still a more intelligent voice that anything you'll find on the cable news networks. (Honestly, Fox News had freaking Mark Furhman on to talk about this case the other day. The only person who might have less to say about this is that dog with its head in a pipe.) More » -
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My Teammates Went To Jail And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
Attention students of Duke University: If you want to help repair your image, which is suffering right now, stuff for sale like this on eBay just isn't helping. Actually this item — a t-shirt with a deragatory remark concering Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong — is only one of 56 pieces of Duke lacrosse apparel available on eBay right now, and the selection is growing by the hour. The bidding for a Duke lacrosse t-shirt, "pre-worn from a smoke free home," is inexplicably at $56. These items are "red hot," claims the seller, and are going fast. More »
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Comment by vangoghsbeard: Just for the record there are multiple ways to write "overgeneralize" and I take back my slam against what's his... more » | Other threads
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Duke Lacrosse Accused Turn Themselves In
The needle has at last moved a bit on the Duke lacrosse story; this morning, two players turned themselves into police and were charged with rape, sexual assault and kidnapping. The men are Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty, both sophomores; a police sergeant said Seligmann had already been released on bail. The grand jury had issued sealed indictments against the two players yesterday. Finnerty has a record for assault in his past. More »
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By LeitchComment by high cotton: spinachdip, it's quite true the Heels have the consummate journalism pedigree. duke however has the algorithm experts, which it appears... more » | Other threads
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Duke DNA Bomb Drops
The news broke early yesterday evening; There was no DNA match of any of the Duke lacrosse players with evidence collected from the accuser in the rape case. As one would expect, the lawyers for the players are claiming vindication, while the district attorney emphasized that the investigation is ongoing, though no charges have been filed. More »
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By LeitchComment by Sir Poopsalot: Issues of my name aside (Sir Poopsalot demands to be taken seriously, dammit!), William, you are of course correct that... more » | Other threads
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Duke Lacrosse Team Cancels Season; Coach Resigns
This was just posted on Duke's Web site: The University has cancelled the rest of the lacrosse season, and coach Mike Pressler has resigned, effective immediately. More »
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By LeitchComment by Silky McGee: Scarpelli, Lacrosse players are randomly tested throughout the year for some 3000 banned substances, including steroids, as all NCAA student-athletes are... more » | Other threads
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Duke Lacrosse Case Somehow Gets Uglier
If you were wondering if the Duke lacrosse case could possibly be anymore disturbing than it already is, the answer is a depressing, horrifying "yes."
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Up-To-Date On Duke Lacrosse Developments (Or Lack Thereof)
We promised an update on the Duke lacrosse rape allegations today, so here goes. A roundup of latest events: More »
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By LeitchComment by spinachdip: William - maybe I misunderstood your comment, but you seemed to suggest that if this happened at a school that... more » | Other threads
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Durham Quickly Becoming Compton East
You know, between the rapes and the drive-by shootings, Durham doesn't sound like such a great place to be right now. More »
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By mjdeadspinComment by Tal4prez: So it appears you have moved on from the facts. Now that it appears most likely these kids are... more » | Other threads
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In Praise Of Lacrosse
Although he has been following the story pretty closely, Todd Blumbergs doesn't have a lot of time to obsess over the Duke lacrosse team case; he's got things to do. The coach of the Woodside (Calif.) High boys lacrosse team is in the middle of his season in the Peninsula Athletic League, and with a little luck the Wildcats could win their first league title this year. We bring this up for a couple of reasons. First, to note that there is such a thing as high school lacrosse, and that the sport indeed exists west of the Mississippi. And second, to point out that, far from being a sport populated solely by rich white kids who couldn't make the baseball team (as has been suggested in some of the coverage of the Duke case), lacrosse, from the grassroots level to the pros, is pretty diverse. More »
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The Gruesome Duke Lacrosse Details
Some new developments in the Duke lacrosse team case, which appears to have "tipped" in the last 24 hours; we just saw it featured on our local afternoon news, and we're nowhere near Durham. More » -
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Duke Lacrosse Team On The Brink
We touched on this briefly last week, but it merits rementioning: The Duke University men's lacrosse team is in serious trouble. If you missed the details of the case, a student at North Carolina Central University was hired to dance for various members of the team at a "small bachelor party." The evening ended with her being dragged into a bathroom and allegedly raped. More »
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By LeitchComment by MDT: I made a quick post about this yesterday, and will go at it with both barrels when more information comes... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Butterfly Chasers
Currently chatting on ESPN.com's SportsNation: Lacrosse announcer Quint Kessenich. We know nothing about lacrosse, but we happily refer you to Associate Editor Rick Chandler's lacrosse musings on The Black Table: More »
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