I’ve never ‘crashed’ per se, but I did have the experience of wandering down a hotel hallway (in semi-formal attire), having complete strangers that weren’t even particularly inebriated asking me who I was, and then receiving a random invite to join a reception.

Just another hormone-fueled teen drama

In case you don’t know the story, Williams was also John Glenn’s wingman, and credits the latter with saving his life (along with being one of tiny handful of people Williams genuinely respected.)

We have an answer: it was indeed a parent who initially decided that Rudy Meredith’s original request for a $450k bribe was a bit too rich for his blood!

USC and UCLA’s alumni networks in Southern California are such that you’ll apply to them both if you’re from the region (or plan on living there and have significant foresight, although that’s usually done in grad school) even if you expect that you’ll be able to get into at least better places academically.

As vapid and as detestable as she is, I’m starting to get uncomfortable with her being the lightning rod for coverage of the entire scandal.

Yep, because:

Your query (and debatably the purpose of it) can be summed up in a single song:

This is strange, but the more I think about it, the more I’m starting to believe that the Loughlins may be the stupidest of this group.

A corollary is that one of the Buckingham kids (albeit the daughter, who wasn’t implicated) has something like 1.5 million IG followers and was actually going to publish a book - called Influence, no less - but the link is now scrubbed.

Stay thirsty.

This is rather cynical even for me, but I wonder if her biggest concern right now might not be her mom likely getting jail time, USC kicking her out, or even the internet mob coming after her with a vengeance - but rather that her social media money trough dries up because of this.

What I’m most curious about (and what doesn’t seem to have gotten out yet) is precisely what broke this open.

I really like that idea - even have a friend (ok, proper term, mate) who got a half blue years back, but FBI agents and DOJ attorneys are not particularly well known for their worldliness, so I’m more leaning towards the movie.

Yeah, my initial thought on USC was wondering if the parents just weren’t familiar enough with the menu of already available slush money options that are capable of influencing the admissions office. Probably would have been cheaper too.

From a followup AP story:

A followup AP story gives the range of the stupidity:

Yeah, you were just a bit too early - 30 years ago it was a rarity, but 20 years ago it become quite a bit more common, and now it’s pretty routine. We’re also now starting to see girls like Gallegos who have wrestled since elementary school, and that’s really important - wrestling is one of those sports where if you…

We are only just starting to begin to dip our collective toes in the water in figuring out links between TBI, depression, and suicidal ideation.

The Big Ten’s 184 pound wrestling champion gives voice to their style, even if he’s from Iowa.