… What’s really surprising me are those who believe as I do that two players on the [football] team have committed serious criminal acts – sexual assault in one case, and rape in another — but assumed that I’d support the team anyway, just as they are.
[A]s a thought exercise, how many predators would have to be on the team before you’d no longer feel like cheering?
… [T]he man Lizzy accused had a history of behavior that should have kept him from being recruited in the first place.
… “I’ve watched almost every game this season and there’s not a single time that I don’t feel extreme anger when I see [the accused] on the field,” said Kaliegh Fields, a Saint Mary’s junior who went with Lizzy to the police station. “Once I start thinking about the people who put the school’s success in a sport over the life of a young woman, I can’t help but feel disgust. Everyone’s always saying how God’s on Notre Dame’s side,” she added. “And I think, ‘How could he be?’”
Melinda Henneberger, Washington Post
January 8th, 2013 at 10:33AM
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