I think it is high time that a statement is made. The assault on our children must stop, something must be done, and we are calling on the powers that be to do something about it.
You could tell the last out was tough out for him. He never lost any velocity. He doesn't lose much anyway. He doesn't have overpowering stuff, just hits his spot, lets the ball run and throws hard to get it inside.
Cimarron was a great ranch. It was beautiful.
We do not assume the men at Duke lacrosse are guilty. Yet we are not surprised they find themselves in this predicament.
When the Williams sisters came into tennis, there was so much rampant racism that it was unbelievable. When Arthur Ashe was playing the good game of tennis, he had to contend with nonsense. When Tiger Woods hit the professional golf ranks, he had dumb people talking about fried-chicken dinners and sitting watermelons out on the golf course.
This thing at Duke isn't going to wake up anything. You'd like to think that it would. You'd like to think this is one of those things that you talk to your kids about at home, that it's a teaching moment. But here's what people want to know about it - that it didn't happen, or that it didn't happen as it was first reported. And that's the unfortunate part - because something wrong happened there.
This was a simple matter. A guy goes out on a field with a glove to play some ball - and the whole world went nuts.
The fact is that sports is not this big melting pot of upward mobility and opportunity and meritocracy. That's a false dictum. It never has been.
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