tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1741554021288676089.post4091708547212609482..comments2024-03-28T23:11:54.133-07:00Comments on Point of the Game: Lacrosse, Sport, Entitled ViolenceJ. Patrick Dobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08573531624507175754noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1741554021288676089.post-92229086053910775122018-10-22T07:22:52.575-07:002018-10-22T07:22:52.575-07:00Jumpy Frog download now download now<a title="Jumpy Frog download now " href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gameslab.jumer_frog_road_crossing" rel="nofollow">Jumpy Frog download now </a> download now <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13626684943710786675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1741554021288676089.post-79865984746537916692012-06-08T06:12:18.127-07:002012-06-08T06:12:18.127-07:00Actually, I have to agree. Youth sports codifies ...Actually, I have to agree. Youth sports codifies violence, particularly in football, lacrosse and (to my surprise, but it has become more evident to me in the past year) basketball. Discussion with coaches and and referees have yielded no insight. There are real benefits to participation in team sports, with fitness and team cooperation at the top of the list. But there are downsides too, including encouraging the development of kids who "like to hit", and youth injuries. I have seen elementary school-age players down on the field ignored with head injuries while the play continues at the other end. Winning becomes the only acceptable outcome, and violence is a means to that end.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1741554021288676089.post-58547841166272622422010-05-21T16:09:20.822-07:002010-05-21T16:09:20.822-07:00My son plays varisty lacrosse and we are far from ...My son plays varisty lacrosse and we are far from rich. The author of this story did not do his homework. Lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in America and is even surpassing soccer as a favorite among today's youth. Youth baseball has to be the worst sport. Parents are crazy and unless you are friends with the coach, your kid plays outfield.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1741554021288676089.post-87821510665356379062010-05-09T13:34:18.061-07:002010-05-09T13:34:18.061-07:00abb said: "The ONLY reason this story made &q...abb said: "The ONLY reason this story made "news" is the lacrosse hook."<br /><br />That's not true, abb, and I think most rational people realize that.<br /><br />In your opinion, why did the senseless murder of a UNC-Chapel Hill student, Eve Carson, make headlines two years ago, abb?krddurhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17987008194579319878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1741554021288676089.post-15007444979041570292010-05-08T16:09:57.413-07:002010-05-08T16:09:57.413-07:00What a lazy load of hooey. Get off your tail and g...What a lazy load of hooey. Get off your tail and get some current information before you tar lacrosse students with the same tired "entitled, elitist, class segregation" nonsense we've had to endure for years. <br /><br />Start with your own university. Go interview Stew Kearns, the UW lacrosse coach, and see how his program is embracing your "privilege of wealth." Ask about the culture of lacrosse in the state of Washington. Go see how "elite" they are.<br /><br />Then go visit the high school teams of Garfield and Franklin. See if those players fit the stereotype you're harboring.<br /><br />Our state has 49 male athletes playing college lacrosse in significant programs nationwide. Most are from public schools throughout the state. There's a couple from Lakeside, Prep and Overlake, but you'd be hard pressed to characterize them or the others as "used to being protected from their own violence."<br /><br />Certainly the top ten teams in the NCAA include the elite university programs you mention. But I find it a little ironic for you that the one thing holding back the rest of NCAA schools from be eligible for the lacrosse national championships, is Title IX, the subject of your other posting this month. <br /><br />Maybe Bush's tweak was wrong, I don't know. But returning Title IX to its 1972 configuration as Obama did is to be ignorant of the changes that have happened in the collegiate sport landscape over the past 40 years. The rule needs updating, we're seeing too many unintended consequence.98039https://www.blogger.com/profile/12563185173773997603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1741554021288676089.post-36773993631776943232010-05-08T12:30:13.561-07:002010-05-08T12:30:13.561-07:00According to the Coleman report, the Duke players&...According to the Coleman report, the Duke players' conduct overall was no worse than that of other college students their age (one of the "sins" of which they were accused was "suspicion of throwing water" in a water fight. Serious stuff.) <br /><br />But Malcolm X was right in at least this: that the media is the most powerful force in the world; it can make the innocent look guilty, and the guilty innocent. Statistics were compiled to show the Duke players in a bad light by taking using a sample of FOUR students, one of whom was a lacrosse player, and then declaring that "25%" of offenders in that category were lacrosse players. Another example used a sample of TWO students, resulting in "50% of offenders were lacrosse players." <br /><br />For what it was worth, the lacrosse team collected more money for Katrina relief than any other Duke team; had nearly twice the number of players on the ACC academic honor roll as any other lacrosse team; and had a 100% graduation rate. They were not BMOC; a magazine article about them in 2005 noted that their relative anonymity on campus assisted their academic performance.<br /><br />None of that fits the stereotype, though, I guess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1741554021288676089.post-32240808261472491032010-05-08T12:13:54.747-07:002010-05-08T12:13:54.747-07:00Baloney!
This was a crime of passion, allegedly c...Baloney!<br /><br />This was a crime of passion, allegedly committed by a person romantically involved with the victim. It had nothing to do with lacrosse or any other athletic endeavor.<br /><br />Such crimes happen many times a day, every day and all over the world. They will continue to as long as human animals populate the earth. Usually it rates a two-line mention on page B-17, if that.<br /><br />The ONLY reason this story made "news" is the lacrosse hook. It gives the MSM an opportunity to try to get even for the ass-whipping they took after the Duke Lacrosse Frame, when they helped gin up a near-lynching.<br /><br />That's all this is, nothing else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com