by Luke Burbank

Radio Host Don Imus
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Don Imus appearing on Rev. Al Sharpton's radio show.

Well, the other cane dropped today as CBS announced it's firing morning radio host Don Imus. This, of course, over his calling the Rutgers University Women's Basketball team "nappy-headed hos." MSNBC dumped their telecast of the I-Man's show yesterday. If we were on the air right now, this is just the kind of topic we'd probably get drawn into talking about ... on one hand it's not nearly as important as, say, the war, heart disease, or American Idol, but on the other hand it has lots of interesting stuff going on: Race, free speech, college basketball.

So here's the question, how would you all want us to talk about something like this? A straight up interview with someone from Rutgers or Imus' camp? You have a better approach? Chime in with your ideas, please.

Blue Devil
Oh, and on the subject of race and college sports: There is some major worm turning going on in North Carolina. Yesterday the announcement came down that all charges are being dropped against the three white Duke lacrosse players accused of raping an African-American exotic dancer they'd hired for a party. I say the worm has turned, because back when the story first emerged the players were painted as rich, racist monsters who descended on Durham from the dreaded Northeast to play lacrosse and have their way with the locals. That image was put forth most forcefully by the local prosecutor, a guy named Mike Nifong. He gave lots of media interviews declaring the guilt of the players, and talking about "The Blue Wall of Silence" that was thwarting the investigation. Well, now Nifong is the one in super-hot water. Most of yesterday's press conference involved North Carolina's District Attorney (the state's top lawyer) calling Nifong a "rogue prosecutor." Now it's Nifong who's due in court later this week to answer charges he purposely ignored evidence that would have exonerated the players, including the facts that the woman's story changed multiple times and that there is a total lack of DNA evidence linking her to any of the players or any sort of attack. For his part Nifong released a statement in which he said, "To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize to the three suspects that were wrongly accused."

Okay, so let's play (cue music): How Would You Cover This! Lightning Round!

We sort of batted around the idea of cold calling the Duke dorm rooms just to see what people are thinking. We even thought about interviewing one of the Rutgers basketball players about the Duke situation just to see what came of that (in our defense that was at the very end of the day when we were really sleepy).

Imus and the Duke Lacrosse debacle... what's your angle on the story?