Clay Travis

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That story in 2006, I think, is maybe the beginning of identity politics.

It was a pre-social media era.

I can't even imagine what that case would have been like in a social media era.

But how long did that stretch on?

What was that like being a detective involved in any way in that area during that entire process?

It's one of the biggest failures in the history, I think, of the entire investigative proceedings.

Ever.

Right.

I mean, to have the case go to the point where they shut down the entire team season, they and again, this is I feel like a lot of people have forgotten about this story.

But to me, it really kind of represented the beginning of identity politics taking over sports because it was, I think, two black strippers.

uh alleged these awful series of crimes by they alleged gang rape by a bunch of white uh duke lacrosse players a gang rape that was what that was what the allegation was and then they charged all these guys and many of them weren't even there right i mean like the evidence they had one of them a few miles away at an atm machine and they knew it and they didn't care

And so all of this was based on the fact that they were black women and these were white men.

And this was just the New York Times leaned in on it.

I don't even know what settlement those guys got.

But it was one of, I imagine it had to be tens of millions of dollars that those people who were alleged to have committed the crimes got.

And I give credit to him.