INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—The Indianapolis Star bi-weekly has apologized to Duke University afterwards some of Friday’s editions included an analogy of drillmaster Mike Krzyzewski with horns and a ambition fatigued on his head.
The analogy on the advanced of the sports area accompanied a news blue-blooded “Despising Duke” that abundant how some admirers acerb animosity the Blue Devils’ program.
Jim Lefko, the Star’s chief editor/sports, said the cardboard pulled the analogy “when we accomplished it didn’t accommodated our standards.”
“It was an analogy that should accept appear calm beforehand than it did,” Lefko said.
He estimated the cartoon appeared in beneath than 30,000 copies of the copy broadcast statewide. He said he apologized Friday morning to Duke officials, who said they hadn’t yet apparent the illustration.
But back Krzyzewski took the belvedere Friday afternoon, he had, and he was not amused.
“First affair I thought, ‘That can’t be,”’ Krzyzewski said. “How could a bi-weekly do that? That’s like somebody doodled. Actually, I anticipation I looked better. But it was affectionate of juvenile. Not affectionate of. Just juvenile. And my seven grandkids didn’t get pleasure attractive at it. ‘It’s not Poppy.’
“It is what it is. It’s actual juvenile,” he continued. “We accept abundant kids who go to school, who graduate. If we’re activity to be abhorred or hated by anybody because we go to academy and we appetite to win, you apperceive what, that’s your problem. Then you accept a problem, because we’re activity to go to academy and we’re activity to try to win. You don’t like it? Accumulate cartoon pictures. Just accumulate cartoon pictures. Try to do them a little bit more good than that, though.”
