Give me someone to root for in the Olympics

WTF?

 

Iceland's men's handball team.

 

Whores? Odd choice of words.

 

Let's just say that people who are Croatian and Slovak do not think too highly of Serbians.

 

No shit, "whores" still an odd choice of words.

 

Over the top for sure. Of course I don't actually think she is, but never trust a Serbian with a knife, so says my grandmother.

 

The "Kids in the Hall" gang prefers Serbian bastard over whore.

 

Yeah, that seems about right.

 

Evelyn Stevens is an interesting story. A former high school and college tennis player who took up cycling at 25 and left her job with Lehman Brothers to turn pro in the sport.

http://www.usacycling.org/evelyn-stevens.htm

 

To follow up on this, Hope Solo has been on Twitter today whining and crying that Brandi Chastain doesn't know anything about soccer and shouldn't be doing the games for NBC. Apparently Hope thinks Brandi was mean to her.

"Its 2 bad we cant have commentators who better represents the team&knows more about the game @brandichastain! #fb"

"Lay off commentating about defending and gking until you get more educated @brandichastain the game has changed from a decade ago. #fb"

 

Need a classic working-up-from-nowhere story? Jose Ramirez, USA lightweight boxing. Our home-county kid in this one.

 

Hate to call this an ugly American, but ...