WEIRD-ASS SOLICH GHB CASE GETS WEIRDER
The application of the suffix “-ass” to the weird factor of the Frank Solich GHB case doesn’t adequately cover how weird it actually is. According to Chris Littman of the Sporting News, Solich will use toxicology reports based on hair sample analysis to prove his innocence in the case and imply that he was drugged by…well, someone that night, resulting in his subsequent erratic behavior, slurred speech, and DUI arrest.
If nothing else has come from the case, it’s done wonders for the reputation of Athens, Ohio as a party town. Playboy, take note.
Watch your drink in Athens. Or, don’t.
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Wooderson says:
Man, why did I go to a boring Catholic school?
June 2nd, 2006 at 1:00 pm
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LightenUpFrancis says:
Obviously it was for the killer tailgating.
June 2nd, 2006 at 1:01 pm
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DevilGrad says:
Hey, Frank. Watch your cornhole!
June 2nd, 2006 at 2:02 pm
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tim in tampa says:
Playboy, take note.
We already had some hotties (well, one hotty and two.. okays) in their “top party schools” issue last month.
Anyway, it’s Athens, and that means there’s both a whole lot of people who know the truth, and a whole lot of people who aren’t willing to tell the authorities the truth. Hooray, Appalachia!
June 2nd, 2006 at 2:16 pm
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Doug says:
Sebastian Janikowski did it!
June 2nd, 2006 at 2:50 pm
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PSUrob says:
That guy workin the keg looks like slimmed down version of John ‘Beat your wife’ Daly.
June 2nd, 2006 at 4:30 pm
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Harris says:
Students at OU rioted my senior year because the bars closed an hour early for daylight savings time. We can’t play football for shit but we’ll drink you pantywaists under any table in the place. . . then wake up under a urnial wearing nothing but the t-shirt from a set of Robin underoos and one bunny slipper.
June 2nd, 2006 at 9:04 pm
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tim in tampa says:
Students at OU rioted my senior year because the bars closed an hour early for daylight savings time.
Not true, and something tells me if you really were a senior in 1997 you weren’t out at 2am that morning, because if you were, you’d know that the “bars closing early riot” theory was completely fabricated by the cops and media.
The riot happened when a crowd, gathered around to watch a fight between two guys in front of (what used to be) Zachary’s, was busted up by Athens police, and offered some resistance. It was not a protest in any way to the bars closing early, and it’s unfortunate that what was a joking explanation became the canonical narrative.
June 3rd, 2006 at 11:38 am
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Harris says:
As I understood it, the fight came later as everyone was standing around. And as the “riot” has happened on the night the clocks roll foward every year since, I suspect the two events might be related.
And what media would have been willing to “fabricate” this story? The Messenger? Maybe. The Post, which wouldn’t have written a story until two days later? Maybe. The Athens News which takes great pleasure in annoying the powers-that-be and has an office in the middle of Court Street? Somehow I doubt it.
June 3rd, 2006 at 12:12 pm
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J.J. says:
ISU had a riot in 2004. Cops broke up a large off-campus gathering, and all these people just flooded into Campustown in Ames. They started macing and pepperspraying students for no reason, and one thing led to another. Fun times…
June 3rd, 2006 at 2:34 pm
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Mojo says:
I was at OU from 1970 through 1975, and again in 1978 to finish my final 5 hour course requirement for graduation. Springtime in Athens. Hoopla! I played football there in 1971-1972. Most legends of wierdness in Athens are legends. The Halloween party was a result of the common practice of wearing costumes uptown to the bars when the parties closed down at around 1 am. One weekend was a Miami-OU football migration to Athens. All these out of town wackos, returned next year and packed the streets to start the tradition in around 1976. Look for the coach to skate clean of the charges. Peace!
June 4th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
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tim in tampa says:
Nah, Halloween became Halloween because the parties got out of hand on St. Patrick’s Day. The university changed the schedule so St. Patrick’s Day would take place during finals every year, and so the partiers switched to Halloween.
That’s the story told to me by the barber, who’d been working on Court Street for 40 years.
June 5th, 2006 at 1:22 am
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DevilGrad says:
The Halloween tradition may be old, but drugging coaches is a relatively recent development in Baja Nelsonville. Brian Knorr and Cleve Bryant only *looked* like they were stoned on the sidelines.
June 5th, 2006 at 9:32 am
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Tits McGee says:
Harris and Tim, are either one of you related to Mike Cooper? Maybe…Carl “grab yourself and start having sex” Monday?
June 5th, 2006 at 8:13 pm