Your Country Or Your Baby-Mama?

The only thing better than high-profile drama between two professional athletes is when you throw in the frenzy that comes when those same athletes are asked to represent their country. A couple months ago the story broke that John Terry, the Captain of England's national soccer team, had been caught cheating with the girlfriend on one of his teammates, Wayne Bridge. Now, two guys fighting over a girl is nothing new; once again, this just proves that no matter how old you get, you never get that far out of high school. Terry was stripped of his captaincy, but not removed from the team. Apparently, there was some one better ready to take Bridge's place so the team sided with their former Captain. Only then the guy who was supposed to start got hurt and England turned back to Bridge to be on the team. He told them (very politely, cause he's British) to screw off.

I respect the hell out of this guy. I also am one to never forgive an indiscretion like this (though, if you wait it out I'll very likely forget, because I forget a lot of things). While he's likely to catch a lot of flack for "turning his back" on his country, the fact that none of his teammates respected him enough to call for Terry to be kicked off the team speaks volumes. Still, if I was this guy I would be awfully tempted to accept an invitation to the team and then cause an international incident as I went in, spikes up, to tackle my own teammate on the World Cup stage. Perhaps it's for the best that he gets left at home.

-It's a little weird to see the big hub-bub about the Canadian women's gold medal hockey celebration spilling back onto the ice after the arena was empty. The IOC said they are "looking into this," which sounds ominous until you realise this is the same organization that just ruled China used underage gymnasts back in the 2000 games. They do not strike me as the type to rush to punish people. First off, the arena was empty. Secondly, I would be disappointed in them if they didn't celebrate with beer and champagne. They just achieved a life-long goal and did it with the added bonus that it was in their home country. And I know that we have this image of women being all 'sugar and spice and everything nice,' but these girls are hockey players. Also, it's a sports arena: can we stop pretending like this is some holier-than-thou place? I mean, this is the Olympics, not Church. This is the same sporting event where the Olympic Village has run out of condoms. Let's all get off our high horse here.