Looks like I picked the wrong day to ...

Yeah. Kinda what I was getting at there, LTL.

 

Usually, when you write the glowing column about the athlete turning his life around, you don't regret what a sucker you were for two months or so.

 

YOU THE MAN!!!!

Folks, you're missing something if you don't click on that link.

 

Do I understand this correctly - Whitlock wrote a column on Irvin and it was killed before it hit the papers?

 

So if she filed a police report right after it happened, why does it take 2 1/2 years to come out?

 

Went to high school with the woman who falsely accused Irvin of rape a little more than 10 years ago.

 

Or so you thought, LBJ.

Anyway, how embarrassing! "Michael Irvin talked to me (me!) for 40 minutes, therefore he is a magnate for virtue in professional sports despite all prior evidence to the contrary." Star-struck J-dub got played; it's unethical to pull the column so he can save face.

Also, it's very troubling how quickly some people here can rationalize, excuse, cover for a potential rapist by inventing hypotheticals out of whole cloth that all go in the same direction. It isn't enough to say that this is a very serious charge and that we should wait and see what facts come out. No, you have to invent woulda shoulda couldas that exonerate him, vilify her and everyone else he might have victimized. I'm seeing the invention of a conspiracy theory in progress; a transcendental persecution complex on behalf of Irvin. I honestly think there are some people who, if you got deep down in their soul, think rape is okay. And it disturbs me.

 

Her story was BS. She later said she made it up.

Irvin was (in the words of his learned buddy Emmitt) an "escape goat."

 

Point - You do know he's been accused of this kind of thing before and completely exonerated, right? The accuser retracting and all?

Geez - Presumption of innocence? Tell me you're an assistant DA somewhere.