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A lacrosse team uses excerpts from the President's speech in intro music.

Saturday, May 28, 2011 Catalino Hat Trick Propels Maryland Maryland upset Duke, 9-4, in this evening's national semi-final; the list of the Terps' top stars included senior Grant Catalino, who scored three goals, including goal that broke the game open in the third quarter, when Maryland led 5-3. The last name should be somewhat familiar to those who followed the lacrosse case closely. [snip]

Pittsford (AP) - Funeral services will be held Monday for a high school freshman who died after being struck in the head with a lacrosse ball. Jeff Milano-Johnson, 14, died Thursday. He was struck in the back of the head with a ball during warm-up drills before a game on Wednesday. He was a freshman at Pittsford Sutherland High School near Rochester. A "Celebration of Life" will be from 4 to 7 pm in the gymnasium at the Church of the Transfiguration in Pittsford. A service of Christian Burial will be held at noon on Tuesday at the same church....

Mr. Jackson, you owe the Duke Lacross players a very public apology. Mr. Sharpton ought to join you for a joint press conference to do this. You must do this on Letterman, Leno, Good Morning America and the View. This fradulent charade ought to end...but only when you apologize.

DURHAM, N.C. -- Mike Nifong is trying to reassure voters that he's the man for the job a day after a potential challenger said he won't pursue the district attorney job. Nifong admitted Friday that there's some justification to criticism about how he handled the media with the Duke case. "My handling of the media coverage of this case has occasioned substantial criticism, some of which is undoubtedly justified," Nifong said during a half-hour press conference. "I both underestimated the level of media attention this case would draw and misjudged the effect that my words would have. That having been...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong said he plans to move forward with his case against three members of Duke University's men's lacrosse team despite DNA results that do not match evidence collected from a woman who says the athletes raped her......(excerpt)

'Gritty?' Come here punk; I'll show you "gritty." Under most circumstances, talking to the television set will get you a padded room at the Hoo Hoo Hotel. An angry monologue was the only response, though, when the ABC News "Nightline" segment on the Duke University lacrosse scandal opened last week with a shot of three obscure, ramshackle buildings that the narrator used to illustrate Durham's deteriorated state. "Durham," a reporter intoned, "is a gritty city that has seen its better days." Why, you dirty ... . At the same time I was whispering unsweet expletives at the screen, across town...

CNSNews.com) - A Los Angeles County employee is suing the county in an effort to prevent officials from removing a cross from the county's seal. Removing the cross sends a "government-sponsored message of hostility towards Christians," Ernesto Vasquez' lawsuit says. The Thomas More Law Center, which is representing Vasquez, filed the lawsuit Friday in federal district court in Los Angeles. "California has become a battleground for anti-Christian forces," said Attorney Charles LiMandri, director of the Law Center's West Coast regional office. "Whether it be same-sex marriage, the removal of 'under God' from the Pledge of Allegiance, or now the removal...