The Indianapolis Star has issued to an apology to Duke after an illustration of coach Mike Krzyzewski appeared on the front of Friday's sports section.
The illustration shows Krzyzewski with horns and a target drawn on his head. Jim Lefko, the Star's senior editor/sports, said the illustration was pulled and another image put in its place after about 30,000 copies were printed.
"It was an illustration that should have come together earlier than it did," Jeff Lefko, the Star's sports editor, said.
Krzyzewski was not amused.
"First thing I thought, 'That can't be,' " Krzyzewski said. "How could a newspaper do that? That's like somebody doodled. Actually, I thought I looked better. But it was kind of juvenile. Not kind of. Just juvenile. And my seven grandkids didn't enjoy looking at it. 'It's not Poppy.'
"It is what it is. It's very juvenile," he continued. "We have great kids who go to school, who graduate. If we're going to be despised or hated by anybody because we go to school and we want to win, you know what, that's your problem. Then you have a problem, because we're going to go to school and we're going to try to win. You don't like it? Keep drawing pictures. Just keep drawing pictures. Try to do them a little bit better than that, though."
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