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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Playing dirty sports scandals. I'm Jay Harris,

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Speaker 1: your host. You're Barista, your unflinching guide through the scandalous

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Speaker 1: bowels of the sports world. Over the past twenty years

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Speaker 1: of my career as a journalist and sportscaster, I've hosted

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Speaker 1: ESPN shows from Sports Center to Outside the Lines. But

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Speaker 1: I'm playing dirty. There is no line. So if you're

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Speaker 1: feeling thirsty for a juicy scandal, then you've come to

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Speaker 1: the right tap, grab a cup, and gulp something that

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Speaker 1: tastes good and sits well before we dive in. Because

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Speaker 1: today's tale is darker than a prune and cherry juice blend,

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Speaker 1: and like that combo is impossible to stomach. Okay, I

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Speaker 1: don't know about you, but my favorite juicing cup is

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Speaker 1: a blue yetti cooler. You know, it's functional and classy.

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Speaker 1: But there weren't any of these cool cups being passed

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Speaker 1: around March thirteen, two thousand and six, at a Duke

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Speaker 1: University party. No way, the Duke lacrosse team hosting this

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Speaker 1: ill fated rager were slurping from those ubiquitous plastic red

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Speaker 1: cups that make the rounds on every college campus. And

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Speaker 1: you better believe that they weren't filled with juice. Alcohol

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Speaker 1: was flowing freely, and the exuberant young athletes were getting wilder.

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Speaker 1: It didn't matter that these guys were among the most

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Speaker 1: privileged in the United States. College kids from all walks

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Speaker 1: of life of a tendency toward rowdiness. Duke's undergraduate admissions

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Speaker 1: the class of twenty twenty six. The school has turned

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Speaker 1: out fifteen Nobel Laureates, three Touring Award winners, fifty Rhodes Scholars,

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Speaker 1: and fourteen Living Billionnaires. The students who attend Duke tend

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Speaker 1: Since annual tuition exceeds sixty six thousand dollars, so Duke's

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Speaker 1: student body should arguably be exceptional. And the words of

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Speaker 1: American political activists Noam Chomsky, the more privilege you have,

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Speaker 1: the more opportunity you have, the more opportunity you have,

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Speaker 1: the more responsibility you have. Chomsky's words are spot on,

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Speaker 1: and Duke's stats are undeniably impressive, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: there's any doubt that college kids everywhere tear it up

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Speaker 1: lacrosse team players who embody privilege to flush all sense

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Speaker 1: And Crystal's allegation wasn't just about the violence. It was

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Speaker 1: For example, it wasn't until nineteen sixty one, amidst a

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Speaker 1: The Duke Blue Devil's men's lacrosse team, first fielded in

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Speaker 1: Crystal's account was extremely distressing, and Mike Nifong, the Durham

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Speaker 1: Lacrosse Players with a fervor. In fact, Niphong was directly

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Speaker 1: Nor do they provide an excuse for the incomprehensible behavior

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Speaker 1: photo lineups. The stage was set in April two thousand

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Speaker 1: who was really playing dirty. I told you that this

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Speaker 1: was a juicy scandal with some questionable flavors. Stay thirsty

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Speaker 1: and join me, Jay Harris, as I delved deeper into

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Speaker 1: the Duke Lacrosse scandal on next week's episode of Playing

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Speaker 1: Dirty Sports Scandals. Playing Dirty Sports Scandals is a production

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Speaker 1: from executive producers Dan Patrick, Paul Anderson, Nick Panela, Maya Glickman,

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Speaker 1: and Jennifer Clary. Hosted by Jay Harris, Written and produced

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