Lacrosse ugliness at U.Va.

Then the guys who hired and degraded the woman with the tattered reputation deserve whatever tattering they've undergone, and I have a feeling they haven't undergone enough, especially the one who dropped the racist e-mail.

 

I don't think this is fair. Yes, they hired a stripper. Stop the presses. They are 20 years old. Yes, they probably didn't treat her like a lady. Deserves a fierce talking to, for sure. Doesn't deserve a rape accusation with photos, names, and headlines in every major media outlet in America. The punishment should fit the crime. This didn't.

 

You are remembering the case wrong. There was no racist e-mail. There was an e-mail that quoted American Psycho. Someone heard one unidentified player make a racist comment outside the house.

 

OK, enough about the little angels. But I'm just saying, I wouldn't be surprised if the thin-blue-line concept doesn't lead to the dead woman being trashed.

 

Dooley went pretty hard on that case on these boards at the time.

It takes a 9.0 earthquake to shake people off their stances around here.

 

STALKER!

 

No one said that.

 

Here are a few links on some other Virginia players as a reminder that this was one guy and shouldn't be an indictment on an entire program or sport.

http://www.virginiasports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=88761&SPID=10601&DB_OEM_ID=17800&ATCLID=204847004

http://www.seniorclassaward.com/columns/view/mustache_madness_propels_virginia_lacrosse_player_ken_clausen_into_philanth/

http://www.thesabre.com/news_archive/showArticle-5348.php

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=5154201

And yes, I wrote one of those stories, but I didn't post it to plug my own work.

 

I hope it doesn't turn into the tired entitlement angle because of the sport and the elite-southern-school angle, but that combination is like crack to the non-sports news media that's going to latch onto this story. Other than Duke or an Ivy, I can't think of any school that would more perfectly feed that angle.

 

Instead of the elite angle we could always go with the fact it is a young, good-looking white girl... That's the type of thing the media plays the hell out of.
If she was black or they were both black this would be get much smaller play and fade within a few days... As it is, Nancy Grace and her ilk will milk this for all its worth.

 

... like the Duke case?

 

Nope.
Different scenario; the Duke case involved an alleged gang rape.
This is a straight up, plain and simple murder (by a jilted ex). Run of the mill - happens a dozen times a day all over the country.