IOC president Jacques Rogge says Michael Phelps deserves a second chance after being photographed with a marijuana pipe in South Carolina.

The Sheriff says he doesn’t have anything significant enough to charge anyone, including Phelps, with drug violations.

The lawyers for 6 of the 7 college students arrested for marijuana possession related to the Michael Phelps incident say the issue will be “resolved” soon, but won’t say what that means.

A defense lawyer in South Carolina says police in the county where Michael Phelps was photographed smoking from a marijuana pipe have been arresting people as they seek to make a case against the superstar swimmer.

    Perception… is reality.

    That phrase was voiced emphatically and frequently by my greatest mentor during my radio days, Tom Harrrell of WSTP-WRDX in Salisbury, North Carolina.  He would use it to remind employees that whatever our stations were perceived to be by their listeners, that’s what they were, and we’d better make the perception a good one.

    It can also be translated:  you are whatever people perceive you to be.

    Perception… is reality.

    And the reality of perception is catching up with Olympic champion swimmer Michael Phelps.