Friday, January 1

The Texas Tech story gets more bizarre.

Alleged footage of Adam James, filmed in the disputed electrical closet:

If you're having a hard time making it out, James is whispering, "I turned the lights on real quick, so I gotta be fast." We hope you've enjoyed this screening of the Blair Leach Project.
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If you saw the clip of Leach's lawyer giving a Lubbock TV reporter a tour of the two relatively spacious, air-conditioned locations where he claims James was sequestered -- a shed (or "garage," as Leach's lawyer insisted on calling it) and a press room used for holding interviews with opposing coaches -- you'll notice that this clip was not shot in either of them; this room actually fits the description of the "electrical closet" referenced in initial reports on Monday. WFAA's brief description says the room is a "an electrical closet off the Press Room at Jones AT&T Stadium," presumably referencing the same press room that Leach's attorney showed off as quite fit for short-term human existence on Tuesday.

So there you go: If accepted at face value, we have video evidence to support the James clan's claim that Leach ordered their legitimately injured son to stand in an electrical closet. If for some reason we later discover the clip can't be taken at face value, don't say you weren't warned.