Hope Solo is back in the news for all the wrong reasons. Three months after helping to lead the U.S. soccer team to victory in the Women’s World Cup, Solo will again face domestic violence charges after a Washington state appeals court on Friday reversed a decision to throw out her much-discussed case.
We know where this story goes next, having lived it for the past 16 months:
Solo will deny everything and say she, not her half-sister, and not her nephew, was the victim. U.S. Soccer will stand idly by, embarrassing itself all over again by taking no action against Solo at a time when cultural concern about domestic violence in sports has never been greater.