Redeem Team 1, Phelps 8

Early Sunday morning the USA Olympic Basketball Team aka The Redeem Team took on 2006 reigning World Champs Spain. The game is really worth watching in its entirety as the game was a battle down to the last minute. With the amount of hype and pressure put on this years Olympic team (not to mention Lebron's guarantee) anything less than a gold would be considered failure.

Earlier in pool play the US beat Spain by 37 points. The USA overcame early foul trouble by Kobe Bryant and Lebron James with a great off the bench performance from Dwayne Wade. The game was close throughout with Spain having solid play from Juan Carlos Navarro, Marc Gasol and Rudy Fernandez. 17 year old Ricky Rubio started at point guard with Jose Calderon out due to a hand injury. It was a 4 point game with 2 minutes left but the USA was able to pull out the victory and our first gold medal in 8 years.

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Will They Stay or Will They Go?

Yesterday two of the biggest questions of the off season in football were answered.


As I'm sure many of you heard either last night or this morning that Brett Favre will be joining the New York Jets after a trade was announced last night.

I'm sure everyone knows the story, how could you not, the Brett Favre saga has been in the headlines everyday for weeks. The Green Bay Packers stuck with their decision to go with Cal product Aaron Rodgers as quarterback next season and reluctantly dealt Favre to the Jets for draft picks.


Now, in other football news that you probably haven't heard, Portuguese superstar winger Cristiano Ronaldo has decided to stay with Manchester United for at least one more year. After leading the Red Devils to a Premier League Title and a UEFA Champions League Title this past season, Ronaldo expressed interest in playing in Spain, for Real Madrid in particular.

Now with both soap operas officially over, we as a sporting community can finally move on. No more speculation and waiting, we have our answers, let's be done with it.