Monday, March 06, 2006

Patrick Ewing and Cameron Crazies (not!)

Yesterday's Sports Reporters on ESPN featured the usual apocryphal Cameron Crazie story, voiced in passing by Howard Bryant as he described how tough it is for teams to play in Cameron Indoor Stadium:
Remember Duke fans holding up signs saying 'Ewing Can't Read This'?

Key word: apocryphal.

Let's see. Ewing played at Georgetown from '81-'82 through '84-'85. A little check of the Duke media guide shows that Duke did not play Georgetown at home, at GU, or at a neutral site (meaning the two schools did not play at all) between 1932 and 1989. Meaning: it never happened.

The crazies have done enough distasteful, crude and vulgar things over the years. Don't keep bringing up an imaginary event when there's so much reality to choose from. Oh, I'm sorry. That would have meant doing a little research. But that's why they call them reporters, not journalists.

-P

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Let's be honest. Duke fans cuss at opposing players, call them all sorts of names and Coach K looks the other way...when he isn't encouraging them to get more active. And remember these are the fans who threw condoms at Herman Veal after he was accused of rape, pizza boxes at NCSU players accused of robbing a pizza delivery guy, and on and on. It's right up their alley.