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mnhtnbb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-08 11:03 PM
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Too funny: Giuliani's son kicked off Duke's golf team--and he sues!

DURHAM - Andrew Giuliani, son of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, has sued Duke University, saying the school breached a $200,000 contract with him by kicking him off the golf team.

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The complaint, drawn up by Robert Ekstrand, a lawyer representing some of the members of the 2006 Duke lacrosse team, outlines strife between Giuliani and O.D. Vincent, the head golf coach. Vincent came on board after the spring 2007 death of Rod Myers, the coach who recruited Giuliani in high school.

As an aspiring pro golfer in high school, Giuliani was promised life-time access to Duke's state-of-the-art training facilities if he came to Duke and paid $200,000 in tuition and fees, the suit claims.

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On Feb. 11, 2008, the suit says, Vincent announced that Giuliani would not be on the team.


http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1152633.html


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-08 11:07 PM
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1. Giuliani himself is very supportive, but only when the trial moves to Florida.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-08 11:08 PM
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2. Ah, another member of the party
of personal responsibility
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mnhtnbb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-08 11:10 PM
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3. I love how he thinks he's going to take on Tiger Woods.
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-08 11:11 PM
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4. Gives new meaning to the term 'pay to play.'
:rofl:
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mnhtnbb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-08 11:15 PM
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5. Yeah. What a sense of entitlement.
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-08 11:17 PM
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6. must think he is privileged
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mnhtnbb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-08 11:19 PM
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7. Think! Think? Hey, his ole' man is Rudy! How dare they cut him from the team!
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Sanctified Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-08 11:42 PM
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8. If the school told him he could play for $200,000 and took his money they should return the money.
I don't see a problem with him asking for his money back, if I paid for a life-time membership at a Gym and they cancel the contract I would expect to receive my money back.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 12:05 AM
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9. Somebody call the Whaaaaaaaaaambulence!
Really, there's no words that build character more than these two: you lost.
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Bob Dobbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 12:29 AM
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10. You have to be a real scumbag to get kicked off a team at Duke.
Too bad he wasn't a lacrosse player, he'd still be playing.
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Sanctified Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 12:55 AM
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11. According to the Suit, the coach cited the following for his reasons.
-- On Feb. 2 Giuliani flipped his putter a few feet to his golf bag.

-- On Feb. 3, Giuliani leaned over his driver and it broke, and "in O.D. Vincent's telling, this became 'throwing and breaking' a club."

-- On Feb. 3, Giuliani walked ahead of his playing partner at Treyburn Golf Course and later that day "gunned the engine" of his car and "drove fast while leaving the golf course parking lot."

-- On Feb. 4, during a golf-team football game, "Andrew played harder than some of the other boys wanted to play."

-- On Feb. 10, while Giuliani was eating an apple, a teammate twice hit the golfer's hand and knocked the fruit to the ground. After that same teammate "slammed a door hitting Andrew's face," Giuliani "tossed the apple at a teammate, glancing off the side of his face."
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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 01:59 AM
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14. Days of our Lives,
preppy jock-boi edition.

All parties involved have far too much time and money on their hands.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 01:16 AM
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12. $200Gs To Be A Lame Country Club Golf Pro?
No mention of an education? Ya know...going to classes and getting a degree that actually means something?

Sounds like little Rudee should enroll in some poli-sci and pre-law classes so he can learn how to SUE...sheesh.

So he felt for the 200Gs and the last name was enough to get him on the team? Sucker! But this kid has no worries, be assured he'll make a nice haul in Rudeee's will...all that Kazakh money.
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 01:48 AM
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13. Off topic but does anyone else find the sum of $200k for an education obscene?
Good fucking grief!
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 02:05 AM
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15. 50K a year for 4 years...that's typical for an elite univ.
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Sanctified Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 02:12 AM
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16. Average cost of Duke is like $36k a year, I assume he paid extra for the guaranteed Golf access. n/t
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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-08 02:41 AM
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17. 200K is what? A 40 minute speech by Rudy on 'Performance Under Pressure'? n/t
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