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Monday, March 5, 2007
Cheap shot on tobacco road.
In one of the most heated rivalries in sports the duke blue devils took on the North Carolina tar heels on sunday and the rivalry just got a little more bloody. With fifteen seconds to go, and the game well in hand for the tar heels, Gerald Henderson landed a vicious forearm to the nose of Tyler Hansborough going after his own rebound. The bloody incident has now of course sparked all the debate of was is on purpose, or was it just a whoops i accidentally smashed your nose in move. Of course after the game you have both coaches taking both sides of the fence with duke claiming that maybe Carolina shouldn't have had some of their starters in, and the tar heels claiming that it was a cheap shot. Well let me tell you this, it was a clear dirty cheap shot at a player who is one of the more unlikable Carolina players. His nickname is mad dog after all. To even go through the motions of saying that maybe Henderson's elbow wasn't extended, and that he was in the air and out of control...please, don't even try it dukies. Anyone who has ever played basketball can tell you the difference between a foul, and a I'm going up to knock your ass out type of foul. He was obviously jacked up about losing to a bitter rival and decided to take out his frustrations on Hansborough, a player who goes inside hard and powerful all day long. I almost cant believe a fight didn't break out in this one, they are very lucky about that. After all that the duke university has been through with the lacross rape case you would think that they would lay low for a while, but no, they give more fuel to the fire to the question of who is the most hated team in all of college basketball. Remember Bobby Hurly, didn't you just want to punch that guy? See, duke you couldn't just lose with a little class...something that your coach always seems to emphasize...hmmm, something just isn't right at duke.
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(My previous comment had some grammatical errors and, as an Editor, I just can't have that. So...)
Anybody who has played sports, particularly bask-ee-ball, knows that you can get worked up and frustrated very quickly. And if it's late in the game and you're getting punished, it's easy to go in for a ball just a LITTLE too hard and too carelessly. I've seen the video. I don't think Hendo was necessarily trying to hurt Hansbrough, but he wasn't trying to tickle him either.
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