The weekly wash
The News Tribune

$10 MILLION BLACKOUT: You have to hand it to Mike Price: While most people involved in a big scandal would be happy to let things cool down, he's fanning the flames by threatening a lawsuit against Sports Illustrated.

The magazine reported that the former Washington State University coach heartily enjoyed himself at a Pensacola, Fla., strip club - where he had to be told to behave himself - and later had sex with two dancers in his hotel room.

Price says sure, he woke up with a strange woman in his room. But no sex was involved. And besides, he was too drunk to remember everything that happened.

That's called a blackout, and it's one of those telltale signs that a person just might have a problem with the bottle.

Price's account is somewhat substantiated by a third woman who claims she, too, was in his hotel room that fateful night: "Mike was only drinking and dancing with the three strippers in his hotel room all night."

That's a relief.

Think things might be a little tense on Mother's Day at the Price house?