Whoever knows what happened at Duke must step up

	MAILBAG Phil Taylor will periodically answer questions from SI.com users in his mailbag. Your name: Your e-mail address: Your home town: Enter your question:

What we need here is one good man.

Is it you? Are you one of the Duke lacrosse players who was at 610 North Buchanan Blvd. that fateful night last month, when a stripper alleges that she was raped by three members of the team? If you were there, you know the truth. You know what did and did not happen, and it is time to summon your courage, to find your voice. Your silence is hindering a police investigation and allowing the reputations of the accuser, the players and a great university to be dragged through the slime of speculation and innuendo.

Someone is lying here, and you know that better than anyone. Either the young woman, a mother of two, has concocted this story for some reason, causing you and your teammates to be unfairly labeled as sexual predators, or some of your buddies did something unspeakable to the woman and are now lying through their teeth as they -- and their attorneys -- deny that anything took place beyond some raunchy college-boy hijinks. A community is divided, racial tension is intensifying, your coach has lost his job, both the accuser and the accused are having details of their personal lives strewn about in front of everyone like garbage in the street, and it's largely because we just don't know who is telling the truth.

But you know, don't you?

You know, and you're sitting there, hiding behind your lawyer. Nine days after the events at 610 North Buchanan -- whatever they were -- took place, Duke coach Mike Pressler set up a meeting between the team and police investigators at which the players were to voluntarily answer questions. But a few hours before the meeting was to take place, a lawyer called the investigators and told them that the players would not attend and that legal counsel would be representing them. According to the police, you and your teammates haven't been cooperative since.