Get real. I’ve never seen a stadium full of Lacrosse fans nor have I seen a collection of Lacrosse trading cards. Celebrity athletics had nothing to do with Duke. The media ran with the Duke case for the same reason they ran with the Tawana Brawley case; it fit their template of “Whites are racist – Blacks are victims”. It is this same template that occludes the Knoxville murders, the Long Beach beatings, the Wichita murders, the Seattle riot/murder, the Cincinnati riots, the Yahweh Ben Yahweh cult murders …
Get real. I’ve never seen a stadium full of Lacrosse fans nor have I seen a collection of Lacrosse trading cards.”
Like hockey, lacrosse doesn’t translate well to TV. It is, however, the fastest growing team sport in the U.S. I’ve been to lax ganes with as many as 20,000 fans.