Duke Lacrosse Case Will Never End for This Player

Then 19 years old, Ryan McFadyen, a six-foot-five defenseman on the Duke lacrosse team, remembers that March 13, 2006, was one of those gorgeous, sunny North Carolina spring days. At lacrosse practice that morning, Coach Mike Pressler had a pile of cash to hand out to the players for “meal money”—$30 a meal, per player for the eight days of spring break. “Coach Pressler said, ‘Yeah, here's 500 bucks. Here's 500 bucks. Here's 500 bucks,'” McFadyen recalls. Afterward, McFadyen got a voicemail from David Evans, one of the team's four co-captains, who lived off Duke's East Campus at 610 North Buchanan Boulevard, in Durham. “I remember the message he left,” McFadyen says. “‘Hey, we're having a barbeque over at 610. Get yourself and the sophomore guys over here. I need a six-foot-five hunk of meat in my backyard right now.'”