2008 Olympic Games

[MToolen]

Tennis has been quite the roller coaster; first Federer, then Blake and now Djokovic are all out. In the good news, though, I'm glad to be a Rafa fan.

[mr_pikachu]

I watched the U.S.-Canada match in women's football this morning. (Funny; I didn't expect American star-turned-announcer Brandi Chastain to call it "soccer," but hey!) Really fun match to watch, especially when Canada threatened multiple times in the final minutes of the extra session.

Have to give a lot of credit to our back four for stopping several scary drives late in the match. There were numerous runs short-circuited by timely blocks. Solo deserves kudos as well for a couple of big saves, one to preserve the tie in regulation and another to hold that lead in the end.

We did miss some golden opportunities at various points... lots of near-misses on excellent chances. The rain delay also didn't help, especially since Canada's keeper was kind of reeling from a bad fall while failing to block our first goal. It could have easily been a blowout. Hopefully we can improve on our capitalization in the semis against Japan.