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Police: Duke Lacrosse Accuser Stabbed Boyfriend

DURHAM, N.C. - Authorities say the woman who falsely claimed she was raped by Duke lacrosse players has been accused of stabbing her boyfriend in the chest at a North Carolina home. Harry Lynch, Raleigh News & Observer/MCT Crystal Gail Mangum, shown here in court last year, was arrested Sunday for allegedly...

Virginia's Lacrosse Season Ends With Last-Second Semifinal Loss to Duke

BALTIMORE -- Even for those who do not follow college lacrosse religiously, losses don't come much more deflating than the one Virginia's men's team endured Saturday night at the Final Four. The No. 1-ranked Cavaliers led throughout the first half, were up 8-5 a little over a minute into the second half, then gave up the...

Two Years Later, Selena Roberts Still Can't Admit She Was Wrong About Duke Lacrosse

Sports columnist Selena Roberts is a gifted writer who usually sounds just the right notes in writing about the way sports intersects with issues like race, class, politics and the law. But she was dead wrong about the Duke lacrosse case. Roberts wrote a terrible column on March 31, 2006 that centered around this 20-word...

New York Times Sports Editor: 'I Very Much Regret' Duke Lacrosse Coverage

In March of 2006, when a stripper falsely claimed that she had been raped by Duke lacrosse players, no media outlet spilled more ink detailing the since-disproved allegations than the New York Times. Nearly two years after the fact, the Times' coverage of the Duke lacrosse case is still often held up as an example of the...

A Year and a Half Later, Duke President Offers Meaningless Apology to Lacrosse Players

The president of Duke University, Richard Brodhead, today offered an utterly meaningless apology to the three Duke lacrosse players who were falsely accused of rape.The full text of the apology is here, and the key portion is this:First and foremost, I regret our failure to reach out to the lacrosse players and their...

Background on Duke lacrosse

The Duke lacrosse case is a common name given to a criminal investigation into a 2006 false accusation of rape made against three members of the men's lacrosse team at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

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