To be gay or not to be gay, that seems to be the question?

Winter Olympics....According to the world and channel 9, American figure skater Johny Weir is gay. This seems to be news to Johny however, as he hasn't even come out yet!...So if you buy into stereotypes, the extremely flamboyant skater, who decorates in his spare time and wears pink fluffy costumes, is gay. If you don't buy into stereotypes, then hes just flamboyant! But aren't most figure skaters?

Eddie Maguire and Mick Molloy decided they knew the answer, and began making the cliche' gay jokes way too early, and without Johny there to give the ok. Vancover Gold suddenly became a PR nightmare, as Eddie and Mick burried themsleves. The next night it was up to Eddie to repair the damage, by going so far as to invite Johny to stay with him in Australia. Johny replied, that he would happilly decorate Ed's spare room. The two kissed and made up TV style, and channel Eddie breathed a sigh of relief. Lucky Johny has a sense of humour, doesn't sound like the viewers did :-S.

On the actual sporting front, we have our first gold medal! Tora Bright, our flag bearer has been the first to come up with the goods!...Davadenko, you beauty!...After finally coming to terms with the fact that Dale Begg-Sith didn't actually win in the Moguls, we have GOLD! In the past while, Torah has had several concussions, and had balloons blown up her nose to re-arrange the bones in her head! Sounds like she earnt it!..And half-pipe is awesome so it makes Austrailia look good!...After receiving her medal, Torah went out n partied like a snowboarder, she declined balloons as decorations.

Maybe not as good as the flying tomato though! Shaun White showed off 'the double-something-mctwist', that he invented, and he nearly landed on his mc-head! But he is the best, and that's why they pay him 10 million a year, to stick the landing!

Wearing the green and gold, it was hard to tell if our male bobsled team was representing us, or Jamaica. As soon as their sled fell over and they completed the track upside-down on their heads, it was difficult to tell. But theres that ol Southern cross on their helmuts...ahhh..it is us.

Even the most experienced sleders has probs with the scary luge track. The revolutionary track has probably seen its last slide.

We look forard to the Arials with Lydia Lassila, our next big hope! Jaqui Cooper and Liz Gardner have made the final too. Hopefully we can grab another medal before Apolo Anton Ohno pinches it! And we don't have to listen to more articles that say 'OH no!' or 'Oh yes!'

Winter Olympic name of the week, goes to German downhill skier 'Andreas Wank'. And yes the commentators are pronouncing it 'Vank', not just because thats how the Deutsch say it, but cause it's family hour on T.V.

Cricket...Yes, we won again. And it's an empty feeling when you don't have much compettition. It does however mean we get to see lots of 6's and 4's! Yay! The Windies were at 3 for 19, and it was looking pretty safe. Australia sweep the 1 day series with the West Indies, and Ricky Ponting gets man of the match. If we were playing England, I'm not so sure it would be that way, but we'll take it dammit!..The real problem seems to be the crowds this summer.

There were only 5 people at the MCG on Friday night, and I was one of them! Nobody cares. They didn't even flash the crowd up on the screen, likely due to embarrasment. And they couldn't even be bothered talking into the mikes during the presentation. And have you ever tried to see 10 thousand people do a mexican wave? In a stadium that holds 100,000 people! It doesn't quite take, surprisingly.

The Aussies also cleaned up in the 20/20 with Shaun Tait bowling at a million miles an hour, almost clocking the fastest ever ball at 160.7 km/ph! I think the competition would shiz themselves on that, no matter how good they r!

Congrats to Wato for winning the Alan Border Medal. The all rounder carried the team over the latter part of the year, and made up in all areas we were lacking. Some feel like he doesnt deserve it, and even Shane worries what people think of him a little too much. Reality is, without Mitch and Watson, we would've had a more dismal year. And it's nice to finally have a player called Shane who doesn't smoke, eat baked beans, and constantly text his mistress.

AFL...It's back, but the debate rages on: Does anyone take the NAB cup performances seriously?....Well only when you win of course ;-). Geelong won the comp in 2009, and did win the Premiership in the home and away season. But there have been years where teams have bombed out in the first round of the NAB, and still performed the best in the H&A. Half the teams arent even fielding a full squad, so it's not exactly satisfying beating them.

North Melbourne are however gloating about beating a depleted Geelong side. They were full of run and enthusiasm, but 6 goals in 5 minutes from the Cats indicated that they coud've perhaps taken the game if they wanted. Only time will tell when the two teams play in round 14. It's not quite the StKilda V Geelong epic, but it will be a true test of where the two teams are really at.

And I had to include this picture because it looks like Andrew Mackie has his hand up somones butt. And it will fuel further 'Johny Weir' like allegations about his sexuality:

StKilda played it's first game against Collingwood, with the Pies now owning former recruit Luke Ball. The Saints held on by 1 point, in a thriller, not helping Luke get any kind of revenge. Freo also knocked off the Dee's, complete with number 1 and 2 draft picks Scully and Trengove. And the Swans have beaten the Blues by a couple of goals. Wheres Fev when you need him ey?

I had to include this pic, as it looks like Leon Davis (number 1) is missing his head. Spooky ghost footy pic oohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh:

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