With Ron Artest — oops, I mean Metta World Peace (is there a symbol for that?) — eliminated in Week 1, the athletic prowess in Dancing with the Stars was just cut in half.

Now, the hope of Aerys Sports Nation hangs on, you guessed it, Hope Solo. Forgive me for the horrible pun — it’s late and I had to watch some horrible dancing.

Hope and her partner Maksim were the first couple to dance tonight, and considering she interrupted her practice to hop north to Portland, get honored for her 100th career  U.S. national team appearance, and shut out the Canadian national team on Thursday, she looked pretty damn good —  both with her jive moves and in a cute faux Solo jersey tied up at her chest.

Nothing I’d want to see on the field, though, of course.

http://youtu.be/5L_CCJPIGJ0

She definitely needed to work on her fluidity and apparently had too many “kicks” and not “flicks,” but I thought she was better than the 19/30 score she received.

Especially when much worse dancers — Carson Kressley, for example — received 18 points. If you love Hope like we do, go to ABC.com and vote for her.

Now, I don’t usually tweet about dancing shows, so when I started commenting on some of these folks other than Hope, naturally a few of my followers thought that my Twitter account had been hacked. A few observations from myself and the Twitter peanut gallery:

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