Another Newspaper Ad Praises Duke Lacrosse Team

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- For the second time in less than a week, a Duke University graduate has bought a newspaper advertisement praising the Duke lacrosse team.<br/><br/>Sunday's full-page ad is to appear

Saturday, June 2nd 2007, 10:13 pm

By: News On 6

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- For the second time in less than a week, a Duke University graduate has bought a newspaper advertisement praising the Duke lacrosse team.

Sunday's full-page ad is to appear in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Raleigh News and Observer, and Durham Herald-Sun. The ad is also to run in Monday's Wall Street Journal and a pair of lacrosse magazines.

The $400,000 advertisements are paid for by an anonymous Oklahoma oil businessman who graduated from Duke.

The ads praise the Duke lacrosse players and their families for, quote, "standing tall during extraordinarily difficult circumstances over the past 15 months."

On Wednesday, another Duke alumnus bought a full-page ad in USA Today for $106,400 to show support for the program.

Last week, the Blue Devils lost to Johns Hopkins in the NCAA championship game.