Author wants to know why Duke-hating carries a homophobic component

[hondo]

Might be a fair point. Isn't it enough to yell "you suck" at a Duke player without the gay references?

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=77950f2b-9680-4f0a-9de4-0e26a61316b4

 

[Ace]

I think all the "Duke players are gay" bashing started with Danny Fairy.

 

[hondo]

I think all the "Duke players are gay" bashing started with Danny Fairy.

All puns aside, wasn't it with Laettner?

 

[mustangj17]

It was probably when J.J. Reddick admitted liking to write poetry.

 

[DemoChristian]

Might be a fair point. Isn't it enough to yell "you suck" at a Duke player without the gay references?

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=77950f2b-9680-4f0a-9de4-0e26a61316b4

Of course, "you suck" is intrinsically homophobic...

 

[Ace]

I think all the "Duke players are gay" bashing started with Danny Fairy.

All puns aside, wasn't it with Laettner?

Laettner sure caught a lot of it. I was surprised he wasn't mentioned in the story.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Every white college basketball player with longer hair is called those names at almost every road game.

I'm not condoning it on any level, but it's hardly limited to Duke.

 

[SEC Guy]

There was a Florida player a few years back, Matt Walsh. Good-looking kid, long hair.

Every game he played the fans would scream "You're a faggot" or "Walsh, you suck ****."

I asked one of the beat writers if that ever bothered the kid and he said, "The guy is dating a Playboy Playmate, I doubt he cares."

 

[waterytart]

I think all the "Duke players are gay" bashing started with Danny Fairy.

All puns aside, wasn't it with Laettner?

The Curry Kirkpatrick is-he-or-isn't-he story:

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1140200/index.htm

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I think all the "Duke players are gay" bashing started with Danny Fairy.

All puns aside, wasn't it with Laettner?

The Curry Kirkpatrick is-he-or-isn't-he story:

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1140200/index.htm

Curry would seem to be the right guy to write that story.

 

[Football_Bat]

Mike Gminski may have had an eight-track or two of show tunes in his console. But I'm not for certain. That was before my time.

 

[hondo]

Every white college basketball player with longer hair is called those names at almost every road game.

I'm not condoning it on any level, but it's hardly limited to Duke.

I hate to defend anything related to Duke (because I despise K), but I'm not sure other players catch that kind of stuff as much as Duke players, year in and year out.
Maybe it's the most derisive response other fans can come up with, given the abuse Duke fans heap on other players and teams.

 

[hondo]

I think all the "Duke players are gay" bashing started with Danny Fairy.

All puns aside, wasn't it with Laettner?

The Curry Kirkpatrick is-he-or-isn't-he story:

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1140200/index.htm

Curry would seem to be the right guy to write that story.

Your point?

 

[jfs1000]

Every white college basketball player with longer hair is called those names at almost every road game.

I'm not condoning it on any level, but it's hardly limited to Duke.

I hate to defend anything related to Duke (because I despise K), but I'm not sure other players catch that kind of stuff as much as Duke players, year in and year out.
Maybe it's the most derisive response other fans can come up with, given the abuse Duke fans heap on other players and teams.

Please. Duke gets the pretty boy treatment and gets overhyped. That is why people hate them. Duke has been rather ordinary since 2001 and people fawn over them incessantly.

 

[broadway joe]

Every white college basketball player with longer hair is called those names at almost every road game.

I'm not condoning it on any level, but it's hardly limited to Duke.

Except with Duke it's not limited to longer-haired players, or guys like Redick, Ferry, Paulus, Scheyer, et al. wouldn't be targets. It's not even limited to white guys -- remember when Brian Davis was supposed to be Laettner's lover? It never occurred to me before, but when you think about it, the author has a good point here.

 

[zagoshe]

This guy has obviously not gone to a West Virginia game, where "[Insert opponent's best player's name here]'s a Faggot" is a standard chant.

I'm so tired of whining and victimization in this country.

NOBODY IS PICKING ON YOU!!!!

 

[slappy4428]

I think all the "Duke players are gay" bashing started with Danny Fairy.

All puns aside, wasn't it with Laettner?

Laettner sure caught a lot of it. I was surprised he wasn't mentioned in the story.

Am sure that Brian Davis's reaction to beating Kentucky and coming off looking like Lamar from Revenge of the Nerds didn't help...

 

[hondo]

Every white college basketball player with longer hair is called those names at almost every road game.

I'm not condoning it on any level, but it's hardly limited to Duke.

I hate to defend anything related to Duke (because I despise K), but I'm not sure other players catch that kind of stuff as much as Duke players, year in and year out.
Maybe it's the most derisive response other fans can come up with, given the abuse Duke fans heap on other players and teams.

Please. Duke gets the pretty boy treatment and gets overhyped. That is why people hate them. Duke has been rather ordinary since 2001 and people fawn over them incessantly.

What people? Not me. Maybe Vitale, Feinstein and Wilbon. Who else is in K's pocket?

 

[slappy4428]

Every white college basketball player with longer hair is called those names at almost every road game.

I'm not condoning it on any level, but it's hardly limited to Duke.

I hate to defend anything related to Duke (because I despise K), but I'm not sure other players catch that kind of stuff as much as Duke players, year in and year out.
Maybe it's the most derisive response other fans can come up with, given the abuse Duke fans heap on other players and teams.

Please. Duke gets the pretty boy treatment and gets overhyped. That is why people hate them. Duke has been rather ordinary since 2001 and people fawn over them incessantly.

And the line forms behind this guy...

http://hereticdhammasangha.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/****-vitale-duke.jpg