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  3. 3.

    Kathy

    Ok, I ‘ll bite. My son just started playing this season and is telling me that the college guys aren’t as rough as the other 3rd graders he plays with. Go not Notre Dame!

  5. 5.

    Nathan Leska

    I’m firmly in the “Bring another title to Duke” corner. Though, as an alum, I have something of a bias.

    Off topic, love your posts on gardening and birds! Am firmly in your corner in that I am finding it hard to believe how much $$$ I’m spending on bird seed. How to keep up? Short of prostituting myself of course. ;-)

    Any new news on how having the additional feeder for the big birds is going? I am strongly considering adding a sunflower seed only second feeder to help the little guys have their own spot while the big guys feast on the sunflower seeds. Also, which feeder is best for the little guys–seems like the big guys aren’t all that discerning–I think I saw you have one of the long thin cylindrical feeders for the little guys?

  6. 6.

    D-Chance.

    What is this “lacrosse” thing you speak of?

    Doesn’t matter, if Notre Dame loses, it must be pretty good…

  7. 7.

    JenJen

    Nice!!

    We didn’t get a Game 1 Stanley Cup thread, after all. That’s OK, ESPN (aka LebronSPN, still!!) is pretending like it doesn’t exist either.

    Enjoy your lacrosse, preppies. ;-)

    (kidding, kidding, don’t shoot me, I’m fully aware that I’m a rube)

  8. 8.

    Ailuridae

    I’m going to cheer against the gang rapists. And by that I mean, I won’t be watching.

  9. 9.

    BombIranForChrist

    I was watching this while working out today, and I really got sucked in, even though I know very little about the sport.

    For example: WTF happens at the beginning of each half. One person on each side lays down on the ground and pushes on the other guy? It looks like they are very aggressively searching for a contact lens.

  11. 11.

    Kathy

    I must give some reluctant props to ND. I didn’t realize it was unseeded. I am not liking the ads. They are featuring more expensive equipment my son now wants.

  12. 12.

    calling all toasters

    Oh, is this men’s lacrosse or something? I didn’t know they still had that.

  13. 13.

    licensed to kill time

    What I know about lacrosse is that little baskets on sticks are involved somehow. That’s it.

  14. 14.

    MikeJ

    In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
    As modest stillness and humility,
    But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
    Then imitate the action of the tiger:
    Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
    Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage,
    Then lend the eye a terrible aspect,
    Let pry through the portage of the head
    Like the brass cannon, let the brow o’erwhelm it
    As fearfully as doth a gallèd rock
    O’erhang and jutty his confounded base,
    Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.

    Sorry, watching Henry V instead. One of those things that I can’t pass whenever it’s on. I’ll leave now. Pursued by a bear.

  15. 15.

    Kathy

    I don’t want let Duke off the hook but I believe that current players were not involved. If I am wrong, please let know. My husband is asking can’t they both lose?

  16. 16.

    Xboxershorts

    Right now I root for the Rush Henrietta Royal Comets.

    Next year I’ll be rooting for Harvard.
    My Niece got a full ride!!!!!

    Where do the whickets go in this game?

  19. 19.

    Walker

    Seeing as Notre Dame beat us (Cornell) in the last game, they need to go down.

  20. 20.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    Dad played for Syracuse. I grew up in Maryland and played until high school (small stature, being a major nerd and an ill-timed trip abroad ended my career.) Father-in-law teaches at Johns Hopkins. If Duke wasn’t playing, I would have nothing to care about in this tournament but thankfully they are and I can firmly root against them. Go Irish!

  23. 23.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    Sigh. Every single team I rooted for lost their game this year. Congrats Duke.

  24. 24.

    burnspbesq

    Jeezus. My blood pressure is still dangerously elevated.

    Notre Dame played out of their fucking skulls. But so did we. Dan Wigrizer, our much maligned freshman goalkeeper made just enough saves to get us to OT. All that separated the teams was one HUGE play by C.J. Costabile.

    Boy, that feels good.

  25. 25.

    Bill Murray

    I like lacrosse (I even have a book on its first nations legends) , but it seems like the modern equivalent of fox hunting with today’s participants being the financial elite rather than the more traditional aristocracy

  27. 27.

    burnspbesq

    @Bill Murray:

    To an extent, but a lot of elite players, especially the guys from Long Island, come from middle-class families. Scott Rogers (the ND goaltender)’s father was a New York City corrections officer, working at Rikers Island for over 20 years. Max Quinzani (Duke attackman)’s family runs a bakery in the suburbs of Boston. Lot of stories like that.

  28. 28.

    Bill Murray

    @burnspbesq: and it seems like everyone of them ends up on Wall Street, or at least that is who gets their future talked about, unless they are likely going pro.

  29. 29.

    burnspbesq

    Notre Dame goalkeeper Scott Rogers was named the most outstanding player of the final four. Well deserved.

  31. 31.

    burnspbesq

    @Bill Murray:

    Why wouldn’t you want to hire a Duke athlete? They are generally smart, disciplined, and used to working hard and putting organizational goals before personal goals. Those traits pay off long after you turn in your equipment for the last time.

    I played basketball, soccer, and lax growing up. Lax is the best game there is. Even practice is fun.

  32. 32.

    Grumpyoleman

    I was watching hoping somehow both teams would lose. No love lost on either from a Navy grad.

    The rape charge at Duke was likely the result of a woman trolling for a financial windfall and an over zealous prosecutor who hoped it would help his political career.

  33. 33.

    themann1086

    Fuckin’ duke. Granted, I’m biased because I’m a former Domer, but still…

    The ESPN commentary was absolutely unbearable, by the way. I only got home in time to see the last ~8 minutes, and the entire time it was “Duke’s magical run” and “fairy tale ending for Duke” and “What a great moment for Duke’s seniors”… because, uh… something? Sorry, I find it hard to fathom the idea of a sports team from Duke University winning a national title as some sort of “fairy tale”. It’d be like calling USC or any non-Vanderbilt SEC team a “fairy tale” for winning the BCS. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over?

  34. 34.

    Bill Murray

    @burnspbesq: I think you may have missed the point. Fox Hunting is to lacrosse as feudal aristocracy is to financial elite. Fox hunting was for the feudal aristocracy, lacrosse players (not just Dukies, but pretty much all the elite teams players) all seem to go to Wall Street. And let’s just say neither Wall Street financiers nor feudal aristocrats are held in high regard these days. well except by their sycophants and themselves

  37. 37.

    Bill K

    Lacrosse was the first varsity sport at Notre Dame in the 1840’s. Many of the first lacrosse team members were Native
    Americans. As a double ND grad, all I can say is, Go Irish!

  40. 40.

    frosty

    @Joel: I’m with you there. But I gotta add Syracuse.

    Went to the 2008 championships with my son and 2 of his HS teammates and I wasn’t sure whether to root for Syracuse (I was born there) or Hopkins (lived in Baltimore for awhile). The indecision lasted until I heard the first Long Island accent bellowing for Syracuse, at which point I realized my long history as a sports fan could be summed up in one sentence:

    “Never root for any team a New Yorker is rooting for.”

    (With the single exception of Joe Namath and the Jets in 1969.)

  41. 41.

    frosty

    @BombIranForChrist: It might help once you learn that the rules of hockey were pretty much lifted from lacrosse.

    Yeah, it’s a face-off, which doesn’t mean they try to rip the other guys face off with the stick, although it looks like it some times.

  42. 42.

    Kilkee

    Law school Domer, girlfriend’s daughter just accepted at Duke. Conflict. Naw, I hate Duke.

  45. 45.

    Honus

    @Grumpyoleman: so was this the result of an overzealous prosecutor too?:
    “A couple of hours after the party ended, Ryan McFadyen, a member of the lacrosse team, sent an email to other players saying that he planned to have some strippers over and made references to killing them and then cutting off their skin while wearing his Duke-issue spandex and ejaculating.”

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