Apparently, midnight basketball didn’t cut it.
But for his great sense of humor, Mike Sola might be curled up in the fetal position crying right now.
The 50-year-old former weatherman for WILL-TV and, before that, WCIA-TV, is among the latest in a growing list of white men in town being slugged for sport by young black men. (Earlier reports indicated a slang term of “polar bear hunting” for these attacks, but police officials say that term is not evident in the recent attacks.)
The attacks seem to have been concentrated on campus during August but lately have been spreading across Champaign and have even included young white boys in city parks.
“My facial swelling has gone down to where it looks like I had a cheap botox injection. My crow’s feet are totally gone on the right side,” he quipped Tuesday, some four days after being attacked while walking home from a Central High School football game. “I’ve been beat up worse than this by my brothers.”