It Happens Everywhere

Thanks to Katharine in the U.K. for sending info for today's post.

England prop Matt Stevens believes he can return to rugby a better player once he has completed a two-year ban for testing positive for cocaine.

The United States isn't the only place where athletes are caught misbehaving in one way or another. Unfortunately, it happens everywhere. Matt Stevens plays rugby for the club in Bath, England. He claims, however, that he is happy that he was caught:

"I hope with every grain of my soul, that I'll be able to come back and be a better rugby player than I was, and I think I will be," he told BBC 5 Live.

"There's a sense of relief that I can get fixed and stop abusing myself."

Stevens is banned from the sport for two years and will be able to re-sign with the club in 2011. The club's website has a brief statement that claims they have come to an internal agreement and will not convene a disciplinary hearing.

Word is that he will be opening a cafe while he is banned from rugby.

Bath Rugby has a women's club as well. They play a match against the St. Mary's Old Boys Ladies squad this Sunday. The women's team at St. Mary's could probably use a better name, eh?