
 
 Hope Solo dives for the ball during a workout in preparation for the U.S. women’s team’s opener against Australia. (Bruce Fedyck / USA Today) 
 
 A day before the U.S. women’s national team opens its World Cup play, the sister of goalie Hope Solo has spoken up and documents reveal new details about a domestic violence incident involving the family last June. 
 
 On ESPN’s “Outside the Lines,” Mark Fainaru-Wada reports that police records, depositions and an interview with Teresa Obert, Solo’s half-sister and one of the alleged victims in the incident, are at odds with Solo’s comments on what happened on “Good Morning, America,” on Facebook and in a new ESPNW story. Charges against her in Kirkland, Wash., were dismissed last winter, but prosecutors have filed an appeal. 
 
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 The jail report obtained by Fairaru-Wada (read it here) reports that Solo was belligerent and intoxicated after her arrest on two counts of domestic violence early in the morning of June 21. The report says she fought with police as they attempted to book her into jail and yelled at one, “You’re such a b—-. You’re scared of me because you know that if the handcuffs were off, I’d kick your [expletive].” She insinuated that two jailers were having sex and called an officer a “14-year-old boy.” According to Fainaru-Wada, “When asked to remove a necklace, an apparently drunk Solo told the officer that the piece of jewelry was worth more than he made in a year.” 
 
 On “GMA” last February. Solo said: “I’m not going to go into all of the details, but it was a scary night. I was a victim of domestic violence at the hands of my 17-year-old nephew, who is 6-foot-9, 280 pounds. I was struck over the head, and concussed pretty severely. It was a very scary night.” 
 
 Obert, for the first time, is speaking publicly about what happened; her son was not named by ESPN because he was a minor at the time of the incident. He declined to speak to Fainaru-Wada. 
 
 “I felt like I had just been kicked in the head,” she said. “She should have been happy, but then, randomly, she goes on ‘Good Morning America’ and lies. I was very upset. It never had anything to do with size. She has tried to make him feel small his whole life. He’s not aggressive. She’s a trained athlete. She’s strong.” 
 
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 Solo declined to comment to ESPN and declined to address the incident when asked by reporters during Women’s World Cup media day recently, focusing instead on soccer. 
 
 “I’m here to talk about the World Cup and soccer,” Solo told reporters. “What I can tell you is that I’m in the best place in my life both on the field and off the field. I have great teammates behind me, a great coaching staff, and I’m just honestly really excited for my third World Cup.” 
 
 Her lawyer said in a statement to ESPN, mentioning a detail from the report in which the nephew alleged struck Solo with a broom handle: 
 
 “Police reports and other court documents clearly demonstrate that the alleged victims radically changed their stories on multiple occasions and twice refused to answer questions under oath, despite court orders. Had the case proceeded to trial and the witnesses been cross-examined under oath subject to the penalty of perjury, the defense would have proven that Teresa’s son, not Hope, was the true aggressor, and that Hope suffered a concussion as a result of her nephew’s unlawful conduct.” 
 
 The fight, according to documents and ESPN, began when Solo arrived at her Obert’s home after a disagreement with her husband, former NFL player Jerramy Stevens. From ESPN’s report, Solo and the teen quarreled shortly before 1 a.m., with Solo telling him he was too “fat, unathletic and crazy” to ever be an athlete. He yelled for his mother and she called him a “mama’s boy,” among other things. From ESPN: 
 
 He told police Solo lunged at him to “take a swing,” hitting him lightly in the face. He said she charged and struck him multiple times. Obert, who had come into the room, said in her deposition and in an interview with Outside the Lines that her son briefly subdued Solo and she seemed to calm down. Obert told the teenager to let his aunt up off the ground. “She’s done,” Obert recalled telling her son, according to her deposition. He didn’t believe his mom, but she said, “No, she’s done. You can let go, she’s done.” But when Obert’s son let Solo go, he told police she “immediately grabbed his hair, pulled his head down and started punching him in the face repeatedly.” Later, in the deposition, he said Solo “jumped on top of me and started bashing my head into the cement” inside the garage. “She grabbed him by the head and she kept slamming him into the cement over and over again,” Obert told Outside the Lines. “So I came from behind her, and I pulled her over and, you know, to get her off my son. And then, once she got off, she started punching me in the face over and over again.” 
 
 After the nephew dialed 911, he grabbed a broken BB gun (Solo says it was a handgun). She left, but entered the premises through another entry. At that point, the nephew hit her over the head with what he has described as a broom handle and a paint-roller pole. 
 
 Police arrived and found all parties were agitated, showing scratches and bruises. Sgt. Phil Goguen, the first police officer to arrive, noted that, “When [Solo] spoke, her speech was slurred and I could smell the odor of intoxicating liquor on her breath.” 
 
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 Fainaru-Wada goes on to describe in detail how the case against Solo was adjudicated. Solo now waits for the determination of the prosecutors’ appeal and prepares for World Cup. No matter what happens next, Obert knows the family is fractured further by her decision to speak. 
 
 “I think it’s so tragic, it’s so sad,” Obert told Fainaru-Wada. “… And I know me going [public], this is just sealing the nail in the coffin for our relationship. I know that. And I cried about it. I’ve done all these different emotions but I realized if I do not stick up for my son and the truth, then I’m doing a disservice to him as a mother. 
 
 “And so the future, I know we won’t be in each other’s lives, you know? Because I know she is so strong-willed. She’ll never tell the truth. And she’ll hate me for doing this. She probably believes her story at this point. So, yeah. I guess, you know, I did mourn my sister, have gone through every emotion. It’s like a death. It’s worse.” 
 
 Solo will be in goal for the team against Australia and the U.S. team has little choice but to go with the 33-year-old because her backups, Ashlyn Harris and Alyssa Naeher, are untested. So players and Coach Jill Ellis are soldiering on. As for Solo, she skipped the media session at the World Cup. 
 
 “Hope’s my teammate.” forward Abby Wambach told reporters in Winnipeg. “We are creating a bubble and we want nothing to penetrate that bubble right now.” 
 
 This post, originally published on June 7, has been updated. ||||| Hope Solo will again face domestic violence charges after an appeals court reversed a decision to dismiss a case in which she allegedly beat up her nephew and half-sister. (6:47) 
 
 KIRKLAND, Wash. -- It was early in the morning on June 21, 2014, and Hope Solo had just been arrested on two counts of domestic violence. The police were trying to book her into jail, but Solo was so combative that she had to be forced to the ground, prompting her to yell at one officer, "You're such a b----. You're scared of me because you know that if the handcuffs were off, I'd kick your ass." 
 
 Solo, perhaps the best women's soccer goalie in the world, had repeatedly hurled insults at the officers processing her arrest, suggesting that two jailers were having sex and calling another officer a "14-year-old boy." When asked to remove a necklace, an apparently drunk Solo told the officer that the piece of jewelry was worth more than he made in a year. 
 
 Those details are laid out in police records, and coupled with two sworn depositions obtained by Outside the Lines, other documents and interviews with one of Solo's alleged victims, they shed new light on what happened that night at her half-sister's home in suburban Seattle. The information stands in stark contrast to the image Solo has presented in court papers, on Facebook, in an espnW article this week and, most pointedly, during a February appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America." Speaking just weeks after her case had been dismissed, Solo told GMA host Robin Roberts that she was a victim, not a criminal; an embattled woman who, as she always predicted, would be vindicated; a falsely accused athlete who had her day in court, faced the facts head on and was liberated by the truth. 
 
 Hope Solo's half-sister, Teresa Obert, says the fact that Solo has blamed her son for the incident has most likely ruined their relationship forever. ESPN 
 
 There was one problem, though, with Solo's version: It wasn't entirely accurate. In fact, as the 33-year-old Solo prepares to lead the United States into Monday's opening-round match of the World Cup, her case is not over; the facts have never been aired in open court, and she has not been cleared. Rather, Solo's case in Kirkland Municipal Court was dismissed by Judge Michael Lambo on procedural grounds, and prosecutors, in a rare move that required city administrator approval, have filed an appeal with the Superior Court of Washington. Prosecutors are scheduled to file their argument by July 13, with the defense due to respond by Aug. 10. Oral arguments are scheduled for Sept. 11. 
 
 Over several weeks, Solo declined multiple interview requests for this story. At a recent press conference promoting the World Cup, Outside the Lines asked her about the case. She wouldn't answer. 
 
 "I'm here to talk about the World Cup and soccer," Solo said. "What I can tell you is that I'm in the best place in my life both on the field and off the field. I have great teammates behind me, a great coaching staff, and I'm just honestly really excited for my third World Cup." 
 
 Solo did give exclusive access to espnW recently, though, for a story that appears in the current edition of ESPN The Magazine and on espnW. In it, Solo again denied assaulting anyone and spoke of her frustration with media coverage of the incident and how she has been portrayed: "From here on out, no matter what happens, I'll forever be associated with domestic violence." Solo, the story details, didn't hesitate to address the June incident when asked about it: "As she revisits the night and its protracted aftermath, Solo begins to cry. She feels stupid, she says, palming tears from her cheeks. For what happened, yes, but more for trusting people she now views as poisonous. 'It was hell,' she says. And then, 'I should have known.'" 
 
 Solo is partly referring to her half-sister, Teresa Obert. There was a time, Obert says, when she and Solo were best friends, when she wouldn't have missed this Women's World Cup tournament in Canada for anything. But it was Obert and her then-17-year-old son -- Solo's nephew -- who were the alleged victims in the domestic violence case. And now, Obert says, after enduring not only a beating at the hands of her sister, but, worse still, watching Solo appear on national television and paint her son as the aggressor, that relationship is over. 
 
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 Obert, 43, says she never wanted anything bad to happen to her sister, that she was hoping the case would go away and that prosecutors wouldn't press charges. She imagined Solo might come out of jail and apologize, and then everybody could get on with their lives. 
 
 But Obert says she became compelled to speak extensively for the first time about that night because Solo has continued to cast herself as a victim. The "Good Morning America" appearance, she says, was the last straw. 
 
 Obert's son, who recently turned 18 but whom ESPN is not naming because he was a minor at the time of the incident, declined to be interviewed by Outside the Lines. He's big, 6-foot-8, 270 pounds, and Solo, who is 5-foot-9, 150 pounds, invoked her nephew's size to make her case to GMA -- something she would state again to espnW. 
 
 "I'm not going to go into all of the details, uh, but it was a scary night," Solo said to GMA. "I was a victim of domestic violence at the hands of my 17-year-old nephew, who is 6-foot-9, 280 pounds. I was struck over the head, and concussed pretty severely. It was a very scary night." 
 
 Obert says she couldn't believe what she was seeing. 
 
 "I felt like I had just been kicked in the head," she says. "She should have been happy, but then, randomly, she goes on 'Good Morning America' and lies. I was very upset. It never had anything to do with size. She has tried to make him feel small his whole life. He's not aggressive. She's a trained athlete. She's strong." 
 
 Solo's lawyer, in response to a question about evidence from police reports, depositions and statements suggesting Solo was lying, responded with a statement saying: "Police reports and other court documents clearly demonstrate that the alleged victims radically changed their stories on multiple occasions and twice refused to answer questions under oath, despite court orders. Had the case proceeded to trial and the witnesses been cross-examined under oath subject to the penalty of perjury, the defense would have proven that Teresa's son, not Hope, was the true aggressor, and that Hope suffered a concussion as a result of her nephew's unlawful conduct." 
 
 A quiet start to a chaotic night 
 
 What follows is a description of the night in question, through the prism of police reports, sworn depositions given by Obert and her son, a transcript of a 911 call from the Oberts' home, and a series of interviews with Obert: 
 
 On June 20, the Oberts went out to dinner and then to a park with other family members before arriving home around 10 p.m. There, they found Solo parked outside their house, alone in her car. Obert wasn't surprised to see her sister. She said Solo had called Obert while the family was at the park, telling them she was upset because she had been fighting with her husband, former NFL player Jerramy Stevens. Solo's relationship with Obert and her son had become unsettled in the past couple years, and the teenager was not happy to see his aunt. But Obert asked him to try be helpful, and together they got into Solo's car. 
 
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 "She was swigging out of a bottle of wine that was in her cup holder," Obert said during her deposition. "She was drunk." 
 
 Solo was insisting she needed to go find Stevens, even though she had a red-eye flight to the East Coast to join her professional soccer team, the Seattle Reign FC. Eventually, she was convinced to come inside the house. Once inside, Solo called her coach to explain that she wouldn't be arriving as scheduled and changed her flight, Obert and her son each said in their depositions. 
 
 Solo continued to drink, and Obert says she had a couple glasses of wine with her sister. 
 
 Solo, in a court appearance in Kirkland, Washington, faced two counts of domestic violence, but the charges were dismissed on procedural grounds. The ruling is being appealed. Suzi Pratt/Getty Images 
 
 "I was not drunk at all," Obert said in her deposition, which is under court-ordered seal but was obtained by Outside the Lines. She described herself as buzzed but, "I knew everything that was happening." Her son told police Solo "drank a lot" that night and, in his deposition, he described enduring "a lot of verbal abuse" from Solo throughout the evening. 
 
 The night escalated to violence shortly before 1 a.m., as Solo and the teenager exchanged a series of insults. The teenager has performed in local theater for years, and at one point he suggested to Solo that being a good actor required "having an athletic state of mind," according to a police report. Solo responded that he was too "fat, unathletic and crazy" ever to be an athlete, the teenager and Obert told police. He told Solo she needed to "get her c--- face out of the house," and then walked away. Obert also suggested Solo should leave at that point. 
 
 Instead, Solo followed him into the home's converted garage, where the teenager then yelled for his mother, prompting Solo to call him a "pussy" and a "mama's boy," he said to police and in his deposition, which is also under seal but was obtained by Outside the Lines. He then told Solo, "You'll never know what it's like to be a mother, because even if you did have children, they would have the most unhappy childhoods because you have no compassion." He told police Solo lunged at him to "take a swing," hitting him lightly in the face. He said she charged and struck him multiple times. Obert, who had come into the room, said in her deposition and in an interview with Outside the Lines that her son briefly subdued Solo and she seemed to calm down. Obert told the teenager to let his aunt up off the ground. "She's done," Obert recalled telling her son, according to her deposition. He didn't believe his mom, but she said, "No, she's done. You can let go, she's done." 
 
 But when Obert's son let Solo go, he told police she "immediately grabbed his hair, pulled his head down and started punching him in the face repeatedly." Later, in the deposition, he said Solo "jumped on top of me and started bashing my head into the cement" inside the garage. 
 
 "She grabbed him by the head and she kept slamming him into the cement over and over again," Obert told Outside the Lines. "So I came from behind her, and I pulled her over and, you know, to get her off my son. And then, once she got off, she started punching me in the face over and over again." 
 
 At about 12:50 a.m., Obert told her son to call 911. 
 
 As the dispatcher called Kirkland police, Obert's son shouted into the phone, "Hope Solo is going psychotic; she's f---king beating people up, and we need help." 
 
 The Oberts' house and converted garage, where a quiet June night turned into chaos. ESPN 
 
 By this point, Solo had left the garage and gone into the living room area, Obert told Outside the Lines. Obert's son said in his deposition that he grabbed a broken BB gun and pointed it at Solo to try to get her out of the house. (Solo told espnW the gun was a working handgun.) Obert described Solo leaving reluctantly while pounding on doors and screaming that she wanted her phone, wallet and keys. But, she and her son said, Solo had gone around to the back of the house and entered the living room through another set of doors. Obert says she rushed from the garage toward Solo, who then shoved her down the two steps leading from the garage back into the house. 
 
 Obert's son said to the police and in his deposition that he then grabbed a wooden broomstick -- he alternately described it as a paint-roller pole -- and hit Solo over the head with it, breaking it. 
 
 "She just turned around and looked at him and started to walk toward him," Obert said of Solo's reaction. "That's all, no flinch, no nothing. Her eyes just got big and she turned, nothing." 
 
 That led the teenager to grab an aluminum mop. Then there was a knock on the door. 
 
 Sgt. Phil Goguen was one of the first officers on the scene. As he approached the house, he heard a female voice yell, "Get out of my house!" and shortly thereafter a male yelling the same. When he knocked on the door, it was immediately opened by Obert's son, who said, according to police, "Good, the police are here, come in and get her out of our house!" The teenager was holding both halves of the wooden stick and a metal pole, both of which he dropped when Goguen ordered him to do so. 
 
 According to Goguen's report, Obert was highly agitated and emotional; both she and her son "showed signs of fatigue or exhaustion. Their faces were flush and beads of sweat were visible on or about their faces." Obert was screaming, pointing to another room and saying her sister had attacked her son then punched her in the face. Her son was "animated and insistent that 'Hope' attacked him and his mother." 
 
 As Goguen walked farther into the house, he immediately recognized Solo. She was described as "calm, but visibly upset. Her eyes were red and bloodshot." As Goguen began to talk with Solo, Obert and her son were interviewed separately by other officers. 
 
 Obert's son, according to Officer Elizabeth Voss, had redness around his nose and left jawbone and a "bleeding cut on the bottom of his left ear, just above the earlobe." His T-shirt was ripped and his arms were "bright red and had scratch marks." 
 
 Obert "had bruising on the left side of her face," and "a large scratch mark on the right side of her neck," according to Officer Chuck Pierce. He wrote that Obert's clothing was in "disarray" and it "appeared she could not stand." 
 
 "I had to keep reminding myself, and my husband helped me through it, to be patient because once all the facts surface, it is going to get dismissed and all charges are going to be cleared. And that day was wonderful." Hope Solo on Good Morning America 
 
 Goguen interviewed Solo. She described getting into an argument with her nephew, who she said was an actor and into the arts. She said at one point she called him overweight, and she started to cry as she told Goguen how "her sister always protects" the teenager. Goguen observed that "When [Solo] spoke, her speech was slurred and I could smell the odor of intoxicating liquor on her breath." 
 
 When Goguen asked if the argument had become physical, Solo turned away and cried. She grabbed her head at one point and said it hurt. When he asked what happened, she said her nephew "struck her with a stick." Goguen asked why, but Solo didn't answer. As she continued to cry, she said the teenager was a "scary person" and she was "protecting herself." When Goguen asked Solo if she had any bumps or bruises," she shrugged her shoulders." He asked to examine her head but she "adamantly declined." Goguen wrote that he didn't notice any other signs of injuries. 
 
 "It was apparent to me [Solo] was unwilling to go into detail of exactly what happened," Goguen wrote. She continued to deny pushing or hitting her sister or nephew, and when asked why they were telling other officers she had done just that, Solo replied, "I did not hit anyone. He hit me with a stick." 
 
 Goguen then met with officers Voss and Pierce to discuss the various stories. Based upon Obert's and her son's "obvious" injuries, they believed there was probable cause to arrest Solo, according to documents. When Goguen returned to Solo, advised her that she was under arrest and placed her in handcuffs, she became upset and questioned why she was being arrested. She again insisted she had hit no one. 
 
 Soon after, Goguen contacted Lt. Mike Murray, the Kirkland Police Department's public information officer, to make him aware of the arrest, given Solo's public profile. Murray told Outside the Lines his department gets many cases in which officers must determine who was the aggressor -- who either "started the fight or went overboard and finished it." 
 
 "When [Goguen] called me and told me they had placed [Solo] under arrest and were going to book her, there was no doubt in his mind that she was the primary aggressor," Murray said. "And the other officers, it was clear to them that she was the primary aggressor." 
 
 Solo was taken to the Kirkland jail for booking on two counts of domestic violence in the fourth degree. Over the next few hours, Cpl. Robert Russell was among those who processed Solo. In his report, Russell wrote that as Solo arrived at the Kirkland jail, "I could hear the arrestee yelling profanities inside the patrol vehicle." As he escorted her to jail, he observed that "she showed signs of being intoxicated. Her eyes were bloodshot, speech was slurred, lack of good coordination, and the smell of intoxicants coming from her breath were present." 
 
 Solo was repeatedly insulting Russell and Goguen, according to the report, and it was Goguen whom she informed that her necklace was worth more than he made in a year. As Russell was fingerprinting Solo, she "made numerous statements that I was not worth anything, and should be proud to have such authority." 
 
 Shortly before 3 a.m. Russell wrote that he and Goguen transported Solo to another jail facility, where she would spend the next two-plus days. There, according to Russell's report, Solo continued with her insults of Goguen and Russell "to incite some reaction" and then turned her attention to the jail staff. As she was being told to walk to the search area, Solo pulled away from an officer, leading her to be taken to a holding cell. There, Russell wrote, "officers took [Solo] to the ground to gain her compliance." It was at this point, Russell wrote, that Solo told one of the officers that if she weren't in handcuffs, "I'd kick your ass." 
 
 Maybrown, Solo's lawyer, in response to questions about his client's behavior, wrote: "Any of us would be upset at being wrongly arrested." He stated that had the case gone to trial, he would have presented a "renowned concussion expert" who had concluded her behavior was consistent with someone who suffered a "significant head injury" rather than being drunk. "Hope was not intoxicated; she was concussed." 
 
 Solo and U.S. Soccer move forward 
 
 On June 26, five days after the incident, Solo issued an apology on Facebook to her "fans, teammates, coaches, marketing partners and the entire US Soccer and Seattle Reign FC communities for my involvement in a highly unfortunate incident this past weekend." She added, "I love my family dearly. We, like all families, have our challenges but my sincere hope is that we are able to resolve this situation as a family." And of the case, she wrote, "Due to pending legal issues, I cannot comment further at this time. However, I am confident in the legal process and believe my name will be cleared." 
 
 As the court case began to wind its way through the system, Solo continued with her soccer career. Despite later saying she was "concussed pretty severely," she was expected to attend and participate in all practices with the Reign days after she was released from jail, according to a statement released on the team's Facebook page. She suited up for a game one week after the incident but didn't play. There was no report of an injury. 
 
 Solo, who takes the field Monday as part of the Women's World Cup, is arguably the best goalie in the world. Romeo Guzman/CSM/AP Images 
 
 Meanwhile, U.S. Soccer, which oversees all national teams, including the Women's World Cup squad, remained largely silent as it faced questions about whether to punish Solo. Four days after the incident, federation president Sunil Gulati said Solo and her representatives would be asked about the case the following day. It was another three months before U.S. Soccer was heard from again on the topic. 
 
 "From the beginning, we considered the information available and have taken a deliberate and thoughtful approach regarding Hope Solo's status with the national team," Gulati said in a statement issued Sept. 22. "Based on that information, U.S. Soccer stands by our decision to allow her to participate with the team as the legal process unfolds. If new information becomes available, we will carefully consider it." 
 
 It's unclear what, if anything, U.S. Soccer did to look into the case. Obert says neither she nor her son was contacted. 
 
 "I was surprised they didn't investigate," she says. 
 
 Outside the Lines found no evidence that anyone with U.S. Soccer contacted prosecutors or police involved with the case, either. Public records requests made to the Kirkland Police Department do not appear to reflect any attempt by officials with U.S. Soccer to obtain the police reports from the case. Murray told Outside the Lines he was not aware of anyone from U.S. Soccer contacting the Kirkland police for information about the case. 
 
 Gulati declined repeated requests to be interviewed. Asked what the federation did to look into the case, spokesman Neil Buethe said: "Well, we're not going to get into all the details of what those specifics were, but obviously we had conversations with Hope and conversations with others." Asked who those others were, he said, "I don't think we're going to talk in detail on who was part of those conversations." 
 
 Off-the-field, the case against Solo began to run into trouble. 
 
 Maybrown, Solo's attorney, pressed a judge to take sworn depositions from Obert and her son. Washington state law requires only that the defense team have an opportunity to interview alleged victims before trial, but a debate about whether the Oberts would have to undergo sworn, transcribed depositions would become contentious. Ultimately, Judge Lambo ordered Obert and her son to be deposed, and, on Dec. 19, they each were questioned for about 90 minutes by Maybrown. 
 
 Maybrown pressed Obert and the teenager about inconsistencies in their stories, particularly pointing out the differences between what Obert told police and what she was saying to him during the deposition. Asked to explain the discrepancies, Obert told Maybrown: "I was hysterical. I could hardly stand from being punched. I was very upset." 
 
 "She should have been happy, but then, randomly, she goes on Good Morning America and lies. I was very upset. It never had anything to do with size. She has tried to make him feel small his whole life." Teresa Obert about Hope Solo 
 
 He asked them both why there was no mention in the police report of Solo slamming the teenager's head into the cement. And why, when they sought treatment the next day, records didn't reflect they had told doctors that the boy's head had been slammed into the cement. Maybrown asked why Obert had asked an officer not to include in his report that her son hit Solo over the head with a broomstick. And why she told police she had been in the bathroom when Solo first attacked her son but now was saying she returned from the bathroom in time to see the whole thing. And why, rather than holding onto the broomstick and the broken gun, they had gotten rid of them. 
 
 Their primary responses were that the night was a crazy blur, that they did the best they could given the physical and emotional state they were in that night and the next day. And maybe the officers missed a thing or two that they said, or wrote something down in the wrong order. Obert also told Outside the Lines she still felt compelled to protect her sister and summarized some elements of what happened. As to the suggestion they destroyed evidence, Obert says they showed the evidence to the officers, but officers didn't seize the broom or gun. She says she held onto the items for a couple of months but eventually destroyed them as part of an effort to cleanse themselves of the incident. 
 
 Obert also pointed to Facebook posts by her son, reviewed by Outside the Lines but taken down at her request, in the hours after the incident to argue his story was consistent: "Some days you just wake up and feel like an Olympic gold medalist grabbed you by the hair and bashed your head repeatedly into a concrete floor." 
 
 Maybrown also suggested the Oberts might be out for a money grab, asking if Obert and her son had discussed the possibility of suing Solo. 
 
 "Yes, for slander for what has been said in the newspaper," Obert said. 
 
 Obert's son demonstrated a quick wit and biting view toward Solo as he recounted the details of the evening in his deposition. At one point, reflecting on the fact that they had been listening to a Bob Dylan album shortly before the night got physical, the teenager said, "The only person who could beat the s--- out of somebody during Bob Dylan's 'Bringing It All Back Home' is Hope Solo." He later added that he planned to write a song about the whole episode; he would call it, "The Hope Solo Path Of Destruction." 
 
 The transcripts reflect Obert and her son answered virtually all of Maybrown's questions -- except ones that sought medical information they and their lawyer believed was private and unrelated to the domestic violence incident, particularly from Obert's son. On this point, their lawyer, Mary Gaston, repeatedly objected, citing medical privilege, and her clients refused to answer. Among other things, Maybrown appeared to be trying to suggest that the boy was mentally unstable and, thus, unreliable or prone to behavioral problems. 
 
 With the case scheduled to go to trial in January, Maybrown returned to court and told the judge that Obert and her son should be forced to answer all of his questions. He filed a motion to dismiss the case, arguing that his ability to defend Solo was hampered by the alleged victims being uncooperative and by the prosecution announcing several witnesses on short notice. Judge Lambo ordered Obert and her son to appear for another set of depositions, but Obert says she left town as soon as she heard that. 
 
 "I told [my son] he would never have to be alone with [Maybrown] again unless he was in court, you know, at trial," Obert says. "It was so upsetting." 
 
 On Jan 13, Lambo dismissed the case, citing Obert and her son being uncooperative and the prosecution not adhering to procedural discovery rules regarding witnesses. 
 
 On Feb. 9, the city of Kirkland filed an appeal with the Superior Court of Washington. Prosecutor Tamara McElyea would not discuss the specifics of the case but told Outside the Lines the decision to appeal was "very rare. In fact, I believe I was told this was the first time in like seven years. ... We had to get approval all the way from the city administration, and our bosses did that. It was not a decision made willy-nilly." 
 
 Two weeks later, Solo appeared on "Good Morning America." 
 
 "I had to keep reminding myself, and my husband helped me through it, to be patient because once all the facts surface, it is going to get dismissed and all charges are going to be cleared," Solo said. "And that day was wonderful. It was a wonderful day, but it was a long [seven] months." 
 
 'It's like a death. It's worse.' 
 
 Nearly a year removed from the incident, Obert appears tormented by what has become of her relationship with Solo. On the one hand, in an effort to purge Solo from their lives, she and her son have ritualistically burned soccer jerseys and Nike gear they were given by Solo over the years. (Solo has had an endorsement deal with Nike, and the company issued a statement last September saying it was sticking by her. In her interview with espnW, she said, "I have lost my endorsements.") 
 
 "We started out, you know, every time something would be in the newspaper, we'd like burn something," Obert says. "It was my son's idea and my son is -- he meditates -- he's a good boy, you know? It was his idea and we did some sage or whatever; we did, you know, aromatherapy. Believe it or not, it was super healing. And then we just continued since it felt so good to keep burning things." 
 
 During his deposition, Obert's son said, "My mother and I have been having spiritual séances and getting rid of objects that hold bad spiritual energy in them." 
 
 Obert also says they have taken to avoiding using Solo's name or the word "hope." 
 
 "When we write texts and stuff, we try not to use her word, her name," Obert says, explaining they will refer to Solo as "H." "We use 'desire' or we try not even to use the word." 
 
 After the incident, a temporary restraining order keeping Solo from having contact with the Oberts was put in place. In January, as the case was being dismissed, Obert applied for and was granted a long-term order. It covers two years and precludes Solo from coming within 1,000 feet of Obert and her son. 
 
 And yet Obert also can seem overcome by grief, unable to believe that this is what has become of her life and her family. 
 
 "I think it's so tragic, it's so sad," she says. "... And I know me going [public], this is just sealing the nail in the coffin for our relationship. I know that. And I cried about it. I've done all these different emotions but I realized if I do not stick up for my son and the truth, then I'm doing a disservice to him as a mother. 
 
 "And so the future, I know we won't be in each other's lives, you know? Because I know she is so strong-willed. She'll never tell the truth. And she'll hate me for doing this. She probably believes her story at this point. So, yeah. I guess, you know, I did mourn my sister, have gone through every emotion. It's like a death. It's worse." 
 
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 ESPN report claims Solo was belligerent and used profane language toward police in her 2014 arrest. 
 
 Solo addresses the media in New York City. (Photo: Andy Marlin, USA TODAY Sports) 
 
 WINNIPEG – Hope Solo's checkered personal life came under further scrutiny on Sunday, sparking a fresh wave of controversy surrounding the United States goalkeeper just a day before the start of the team's Women's World Cup campaign. 
 
 Solo was the subject of an ESPN/Outside The Lines report that claimed she was belligerent and used profane language towards police, threatened to attack officers and taunted them about her wealth during an arrest on domestic violence charges in June 2014. 
 
 While the case was dismissed on procedural grounds, Solo has not been cleared, according to ESPN. Prosecutors have filed a rare appeal with the Superior Court of Washington and are scheduled to file their argument by July 13. 
 
 "(Solo) repeatedly hurled insults at the officers processing her arrest, suggesting that two jailers were having sex and calling another officer a '14-year-old boy,'" the report said. "When asked to remove a necklace, an apparently drunk Solo told the officer that the piece of jewelry was worth more than he made in a year." 
 
 While the latest controversy addresses alleged behavior from nearly a year ago, it will only enhance the perception that Solo may be a disruptive influence on the squad, despite being one of the most accomplished goalkeepers in world soccer. 
 
 Head coach Jill Ellis denied that was the case. 
 
 "No, Hope's been fantastic," Ellis said at a news conference Sunday evening. "(The incident) was a long time ago. We've moved on. She's been a fantastic player and teammate. None of that has even resonated with us, and I'm sure some of the players aren't even aware of it." 
 
 Ellis said she had not read the ESPN story or watched the video report and was informed of the news by her press officer. 
 
 Carli Lloyd, who is expected to captain the team against Australia on Monday, is Solo's long-time roommate on national team duty. "We are roommates right now," Lloyd said. "Honestly, I didn't discuss it with her for one second." 
 
 USA TODAY Sports requested through U.S. Soccer that Solo be made available in the interview area to answer questions regarding the situation. However, she did not appear before boarding the team bus. 
 
 Veteran forward Abby Wambach insisted the Solo saga had barely been noticed within the team. "You would be surprised at how normal life is," Wambach said. 
 
 "This is going to be a spectacular event and for me, I am going to talk about all positives – no matter what happens throughout this tournament." 
 
 However, external opinion may prove to be less forgiving. 
 
 "Hope is incredibly lucky to be on this World Cup team," former national team star Brandi Chastain, who scored the winning penalty kick in the 1999 World Cup final, told USA TODAY Sports recently. "I hope she recognizes how incredibly lucky she is.'' 
 
 U.S. Soccer declined to comment publicly on the matter early Sunday afternoon. 
 
 The U.S. women's team is widely popular around the country and has an overwhelmingly positive image. Solo is the primary exception. 
 
 In March, Solo was riding in a Team USA van near Los Angeles while her husband, Jerramy Stevens, was drunk and behind the wheel, when police pulled them over at 1:49 a.m. Solo was suspended from the team for 30 days for the latest in a series of troubling incidents. 
 
 In November 2012, police reported they found booze and traces of marijuana at Solo's house in Kirkland, Wash., when police arrived at a party the night before Solo's wedding to Stevens, a former NFL player. According to a police report, Solo instructed the partygoers not to cooperate with police. Stevens was arrested on charges of domestic violence because police suspected Solo and Stevens had been in a fight. Charges were dropped. 
 
 In the June 2014 incident, Solo was arrested on charges of domestic violence after allegedly assaulting her older half-sister, Teresa Obert, and Obert's 17-year-old son at their house. 
 
 Yet Solo is not without her supporters. She is still idolized by young girls, and was a key part of the American team's publicity drive ahead of the World Cup. 
 
 "She's worked so hard to create an amazing life for herself,'' said Amy Griffin, an assistant coach at the University of Washington who formerly worked with Solo on developing her game during college. "It just hurts me when she makes a poor choice to take a few steps backwards and head back to maybe where she came from.'' 
 
 Solo has carefully selected the interviews she has given in the build-up to the World Cup, and attempted to paint herself as the "victim" in the June 2014 incident. 
 
 That public relations policy appears to have backfired. According to the ESPN story, Obert said that an interview Solo gave on Good Morning America was what prompted her to speak out and give further details on events that night and the pair's troubled relationship. 
 
 A restraining order is in place preventing Solo from coming near Obert or her son, now 18. 
 
 With the World Cup opener approaching it is highly unlikely that Ellis would consider removing Solo from the starting lineup against Australia in Winnipeg on Monday. 
 
 Backups Ashlyn Harris and Alyssa Naeher have limited experience at international level and Australia, ranked 10th in the world, eight spots behind the U.S., cannot be taken lightly. 
 
 Solo has a history of being in the headlines around World Cup time. Her notoriety was never higher than in 2007, when she launched into a rant criticizing the decision to drop her for the World Cup semifinal in favor of Briana Scurry. The U.S. had lost 4-0 to Brazil, and Solo was sent home and suspended from the team for her comments, stating "there is no doubt in my mind I would have made those saves." 
 
 USA TODAY Sports' Josh Peter contributed to this report.
– The USA plays its opening match in the Women's World Cup today, but goalie Hope Solo's personal life is getting more press than the soccer tournament. An ESPN Outside the Lines report yesterday looked into Solo's arrest on domestic violence charges last year, exposing some new details, including alleged obnoxious behavior after her arrest. In a jail report obtained by ESPN, an officer says Solo "showed signs of being intoxicated" and was aggressive and insulting, telling an officer that the necklace he asked her to remove was "worth more than he made in a year," calling another officer "a 14-year-old boy," and warning an officer she'd "kick his ass" if she wasn't in handcuffs. The ESPN report, which included an interview with the half-sister Solo was accused of assaulting, is at odds with the account of the incident Solo has given the public, including on a Good Morning America interview, reports the Washington Post, which notes that prosecutors filed a rare appeal after the charges were dismissed and that the next hearing is in July. Despite the drama, fellow players and head coach Jill Ellis deny that Solo is in any way a bad influence on the squad. "We've moved on. She's been a fantastic player and teammate," Ellis tells USA Today. "None of that has even resonated with us, and I'm sure some of the players aren't even aware of it." (In January, Solo was suspended for 30 days after her husband was pulled over on suspicion of DUI.)