Lacrosse ugliness at U.Va.

If may have already been posted, but I thought it was worth mentioning that among the pallbearers were members of the men's team.

 

And my guess is, that you won't see a lot of support for Huguely from members of his own team. If this is as open and shut as it seems to be, they aren't gonna want to get anywhere near him.

 

Don't think you are going out on a limb with that guess. Just do not see a scenario where teammates could support him.

 

Not just cancel the season. Shut down THE PROGRAM.
That was one of the worst, most knee-jerk columns I've read in some time. By his logic, there are a lot of football teams in America which would have been goners a long time ago. Ridiculous.

 

Yeah, I normally like Blackistone, but that doesn't make sense. If anything, Duke should be used as a lesson on why you shouldn't cancel the season, make any rash decisions or buckle under public pressure.

 

A positive look at a college lacrosse team, about one of the players who nearly kills himself before deciding to make public his sexuality.
And what a cool, enlightened coach.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/sports/09oneonta.html?ref=sports

(Kate Thomas, btw, does excellent work.)

 

Lacrosse seems to invite a lot of college kids who hate women.
Especially in the ACC.

Well, ok, just at Virginia...depending on what you believe happened at Duke.

Punk.

 

With privilege comes a false sense of entitlement.

 

Well after reading yesterday about two more incidents...

One when teammates had to pull him off of her at a party... another where he attempted to put his fist through a car window after a night of drinking... and he was breaking a bunch of bottles at a party the night he killed her...

Did anyone on the team think, "This guy is an alcoholic. He needs help."

 

The alcohol was a symptom, not the disease itself. This guy was pathological, and had some very dark, very serious personality problems.

 

I think the headline writer did Blackistone a disservice. The column seems to argue that they shouldn't play for the rest of the season, not shut down the program, which the headline clearly states.

Still a bad take. Just not as bad as the headline writer made it out to be.