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...seems like men’s college lacrosse is synonymous with the infamous Duke rape case, and any and all headlines devoted to the sport somehow center around that fateful night last March when who-knows-what happened...
There’s no chicken-and-egg conundrum here. We all know which came first, and we also know which will have a lasting impact. Duke’s lacrosse program—the team, the games, and the sport itself—will still be around long after Mike Krzyzewski retains his rightful place as the most important person in Duke athletics. This case, I’m happy to say, will...
...coaches here (and at Brown, another school interested in Seligmann) understand something important: it’s about the game. The program and the sport itself predate any single player currently involved with it, and with that in mind, it’s poor recruiting for a staff not to take a look at a player like Seligmann. Until he’s convicted of a crime or some proof arises that can offer some real evidence to the wrongs he’s committed, there’s just one thing his potential suitors should think about...
...game they play, and sport in general—the entity of athletic competition itself, not an individual game or an individual college athlete—well, that’s what they’re here...
Let’s remember that there is a great sport underneath the exterior layer of the Duke scandal that most people don’t get to see. Let’s remember why it’s such a big story in the first place: because they were lacrosse players...