Duke Basketball Report--Like Everything Else With 'Duke Basketball' In It--Sucks

You non-hoops-fans can just ignore this one, of course, but DBR certainly does suck. You can often find interesting ACC hoops info there, but the tone of the thing is just so unutterably nasty and the alleged information often so skewed that I rarely go there. This piece on the recent revelations from KU about Roy Williams was particularly stupid and mean-spirited. The real scoop, so far as we know, is here. Integrity is far more important than winning, so I'd never advocate bending the rules for Roy or letting him get away with anything, but to charge that the violations in question are significant is rather silly. I've got a zero tolerance policy regarding this sort of thing, but even I'm not worried about these violations.

Incidentally, I'm going to avoid falling into tu quoque here by enumerating the numerous failings of the Duke program...not...going to....not... There. Successs.
DBR tends to display much of what is worst about college sports. They are intensely tribal, reading only the best motives into the actions of their heroes and, of course, trying their darndest to make Carolina's program seem awful in various ways. I can understand their bitterness given that we've basically owned them for basically my lifetime, but they have had notable success of late, so one would think that they might get over it sometime. Bearing this kind of grudge...well, it's unseemly. They've got stellar recruits coming in this year and should be good this season. Yet even in success, I predict more nastiness.

So get over it, boys. Go have a nice drive in your BMWs, send some money to the RNC, go puppy hunting or whatever it is that you all do to have a good time. Maybe you just need to get out of Durham for awhile. Heck, that place'll put anyone in a foul mood.