Everyone knows that old and indelicate saying about karma being a kind of a bitch, and it appears that this week, karma is in as strong a form as ever on that front. Remember last week, when I reported on Hope Solo’s very unsportswomanlike tirade after Team USA (for whom she is the goalkeeper) lost their soccer match to Sweden? Remember that? Well, it seems that U.S. Soccer certainly remembers it too, because according to The New York Times, they have decided to suspend Hope Solo from the sport for a six month period. In case you don’t remember exactly who said what to whom, it was on the back of a bitter defeat at the hands of the Swedish women’s soccer team (who also happens to be coached by Solo’s former coach) that Solo had her very public meltdown, in which...
