That’s the view the mainstream media, and all the local media, for that matter, portrayed in the spring of 2006. Spoiled, rich white kids playing a prep school sport rape poor single mom just trying to make it through school by being victimized as a stripper. Well, we all know how that turned out.
Likewise the stereotype of lacrosse players. Check out this story on Duke defenseman Tony McDevitt. He’s the son of a Teamster who had to take side jobs, and a mom who worked to raise four kids.
If only they could say they “come from nothing” like poor John Edwards.
UPDATE: Forgot to mention that Duke plays undefeated Cornell tomorrow in the NCAA semifinals at 2:30 p.m. on ESPN2. Johns Hopkins plays Delaware in the other semi at noon. Bring it home, Dukies!
