How cute! A chubby man dressed as Cupid invades the pitch during a soccer match to hand out roses and ends up costing his team 6th place in the league standings.

How’s that? Unlike other normal sports, soccer referees can arbitrarily add time to the match for delays in play: in this case a nearly naked man with a small bow and arrow. The opposing team then used that extra time to tie the game up, preventing the home team from collecting the points for a win and moving up in the standings.

Dumbass.

Here’s more from the The Telegraph:

Stupid Cupid, as he has been dubbed, ‘celebrated’ Valentine’s Day by running onto the pitch during Coventry’s FA Cup tie with Blackburn. Complete with bow and arrow, Cupid spread roses around the pitch before the stewards grabbed him.

No harm done? Not according to Coventry’s Michael Doyle, who reckoned the Blackburn fan ended up costing City a place in the sixth round. The delay prompted referee Steve Tanner to play five minutes of added time, which was just long enough for Christopher Samba to score a last-ditch equaliser and earn Rovers a 2-2 draw. “We could have done without him,” admitted Doyle. “If he hadn’t come on, we’d have seen out the three minutes added time for all the subs.”

Cupid’s streak wasn’t Coventry only slice of bad luck at the weekend after a bout of food poisoning – caused by dodgy seafood – decimated Chris Coleman’s squad before the match.

Cheerleaders at all levels have fought to earn the recognition that what they do requires physical skills, training and hours of practice just like any athletic endeavor and should be considered a sport. Recently courts and state athletic associations have been confirming that which makes the cheerleaders, well, cheer, but now they may not be so happy. Along with the perks of being called a sport comes the responsibility of being drug tested, just like all the other jocks at school.

Good thing or bad thing in your opinion? Leave your comments below.

Here’s more on the story from the Fresno Bee:

High school cheerleaders have argued for years that they’re athletes — just like football, baseball and basketball players. Cheerleaders do complex stunts, work out with weights, and practice from June to March.

Now cheerleaders in Visalia can prove their point: They’re being tested for drugs. Under a school policy approved last month, cheerleaders must submit to the same random drug tests given to other student-athletes. It appears to be the first district in the central San Joaquin Valley to take this step.

Cheerleading coach Cara Carnahan at Mt. Whitney High welcomes the change. “You don’t want your daughter being thrown into the air by anyone on drugs,” Carnahan said. The change marks a big step toward recognizing cheerleaders as athletes, a status that has been denied them for a long time. “To me, cheerleading is a sport,” said Redwood High cheer coach Lisa Bardonnex. “It’s an evolving thing. Are we recognized as athletes? No.”

It’s annoying not to get more respect from peers for the physical skill of cheer squads, said sophomore Gianna Buldo, 15, a cheerleader at Redwood High.

The vexing question of what is an “activity” and what is “athletics” is a touchy subject, admits Drew Sorensen, area administrator for Visalia Unified. The state education code allows football players and other athletes — but not cheerleaders — to play a sport in lieu of taking state-required physical education classes.

Yet now the district is telling cheerleaders to prepare for random drug testing.

” ‘You always said we’re not athletes,’ ” Sorensen said, quoting a common refrain he’s heard from cheerleaders.

What’s a little dry humping and sexual assault between high school boys? I mean, haven’t we all at one time tried to simulate rape on a younger, smaller classmate for our our fun and amusement? No, well then maybe these kids at Jupiter High School in Florida may be in more trouble than we thought. They might actually go from doing “fake rape” on someone else, to having the real thing presented to them in jail by someone named Bubba. Karma’s a bitch, ain’t it boys?

Here’s more from the Palm Beach Post:

Two Jupiter High School students have been charged with felony battery and stalking a minor under 16 after admitting to simulating rape on a classmate. A Jupiter High School physical education teacher said he heard screaming from the locker room two days in a row in November. Both times he twice witnessed Storm Stockstill, 18, and a 16-year-old classmate, holding down a boy while they “acted out sexual acts” on him. The victim said similar acts happened on four days.

While being interviewed by a school police officer, Stockstill admitted he pretended to rape the boy on several occasions. He said he was only messing around. The 16-year-old also admitted he acted with Stockstill to simulate a sex act with the boy. He said he realized that his actions were inappropriate.