Cheryl Cole is single?

Well wouldn't this be shit luck: English defender Ashley Cole recently broke his ankle, putting his World Cup status in jeopardy and his trophy wife Cheryl Cole reportedly has been seen lately without her wedding ring.

Named FHM's sexiest woman in the world (really) in 2009, Cheryl is in some garbage British group called Girl Aloud. Sounds terrible.

Tough time to be Ashley Cole. And for the record, the thorny roses/musical notes tattoo around her right thigh is so bad it's good (think Megan Fox and her terrible ink). Haha, if you click on some of the other pictures in the link you'll notice that Cheryl also appears to have a tat on her butt? WAG's do that? Well as they say, I still wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers.

http://www.popoholic.com/2009/04/27/cheryl-cole-is-fhms-sexiest-women-in-the-world/

I love me so WAGs

As I said before in the first John Terry affair blog, it's impossible to quantify in the U.S. just how famous soccer players are overseas. In the U.S., we know some athletes' WAGs (wives and girlfriends) but we're not on a first name basis with all of them.

It's a complete different story in the UK, Europe and South America. With that said, anything related to the soccer players is gold (see BBC's Footballer Wives-a racy melodrama) and their significant others are a perfect example. Most soccer WAGs were nobodies before they started dating their footballers. Now modeling, singing and a whole bunch of other half-ass careers are open to these fine ladies.

Nothing makes a cold New England winter a little better than the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. I received it today and was psyched to find out that they had a special section featuring Bodypainting: Soccer WAGs-Germany's Sarah Brandner (Bastian Schweinsteiger), England's Abbey Clancy (Peter Crouch), the U.S.'s Bethany Dempsey (Clint Dempsey) and Italy's Melissa Satta (Christian Vieri).

It's not breaking news to say that money makes any Lyle Lovett look like Brad Pitt but if you needed further proof, just look at Clancy and then take a gander at Crouch, who is a human Big Bird and one of the ugliest humans on the face of the earth.

So without further ado, here's four more reasons to tune into the 2010 World Cup.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010_swimsuit/painting/