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Lacrosse, Litigation, & Editorial Strategy

By K.C. Johnson

Earlier today, the Duke lacrosse team narrowly defeated Notre Dame in the national championship game. In the run-up to the event, CBS Sports had an article on Casey Carroll, a member of the 2006 team whose life has taken an extraordinary turn since then. Carroll graduated from Duke in 2007, and, inspired by the legacy of former Duke lacrosse player Jimmy Regan, a U.S. Army Ranger who was killed in Iraq in February 2007, Carroll enlisted in the Army. He had four tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq. He also married his college girlfriend, and the couple has two children.After Carroll?s time in the military, he returned to Duke, using GI Bill benefits to enroll in the business school. And with one year of eligibility left (thanks to the efforts of Duke?s Chris Kennedy), he returned to the lacrosse team?where this year, at age 29, he was a regular starter on defense...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on May 26, 2014 (boomark / email).