By : Sports media figures break the silence on women’s domestic violence.
If there’s one thing writers hate, it’s when another writer steals their thunder.
Indeed, last week, award-winning USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan stole mine with this piece on the Hope Solo fallout. That led to a panel discussion on ESPN’s Around the Horn, in which all four panelists agreed with Brennan.
http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=11390184 (start around 13-minute mark).
And I could not have been happier. I’ve thrown enough thunderbolts, and don’t have Zeus’ inexhaustible supply of them.
For those of you who are unaware, Hope Solo is the goalie for the Seattle Reign Women’s Football Club. She is better known as the goalkeeper emeritus for the US Women’s National Soccer Team.
This past spring, Solo was arrested for domestic violence, alleged to have gotten into a scuffle at her sister’s home that resulted in the injuries to her sister and, more alarmingly, her 17-year-old nephew, the son of said sister. Solo’s trial is set for November 4.
But Solo was on her way to breaking the record for most shutouts by a goalie in international competition for the exalted national team.
If there’s one thing writers hate, it’s when another writer steals their thunder.
Indeed, last week, award-winning USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan stole mine with this piece on the Hope Solo fallout. That led to a panel discussion on ESPN’s Around the Horn, in which all four panelists agreed with Brennan.
http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=11390184 (start around 13-minute mark).
And I could not have been happier. I’ve thrown enough thunderbolts, and don’t have Zeus’ inexhaustible supply of them.
For those of you who are unaware, Hope Solo is the goalie for the Seattle Reign Women’s Football Club. She is better known as the goalkeeper emeritus for the US Women’s National Soccer Team.
This past spring, Solo was arrested for domestic violence, alleged to have gotten into a scuffle at her sister’s home that resulted in the injuries to her sister and, more alarmingly, her 17-year-old nephew, the son of said sister. Solo’s trial is set for November 4. But Solo was on her way to breaking the record for most shutouts by a goalie in international competition for the exalted national team.





