Has American's women atheltics seen day like this before??? photo: AP Hope Solo leads the US Women's National Team to a gold medal, by beating Brazil. Capping off her incredible storyline. While the US Softball team losses a heart-breaker to Japan, in softball's final Olympic game. photo: reuters   RizzoSports Blog   www.rizzosports.com   FLTV 23 - Live ...

Lemme get this straight: The U.S. women won the gold medal in soccer but lost it in softball? Isn't that, you know, backward? Cat Osterman seemed to have been crying recently when interviewed after the softball loss by NBC. I rented "A League of their Own" for the family the other night, so I know crying isn't allowed in baseball. So it shouldn't be in softball, right?

This news is a few days old , but I hope you don't mind. My shallow Olympic-related posts must continue. One of my bigger learnings during these Olympics is that there is a bountiful supply of beautiful athletes. I hasn't always been this way, has it? From Leryn Franco to Sheena Tosta to [insert your favorite tennis star here], the list is quite long .  Before these games ...

The women put up a solid effort, losing in the medal round to Australia but the men didn't make it that far.  At least the Jays won. The women's softball team finished in 4th with a gutsy effort from Lauren Bay-Regula who threw a complete game but appears to have been left in too long (5 runs allowed has to be one of her worst results).  Still, at least they got that far.  The ...

UCLA medalists so far: Dawn Harper, gold (100m Hurdles) Mark Hunter, gold (rowing, lightweight double sculls); Kim Vandenberg, bronze (swimming, 4×200 relay); Lauren Cheney, medal TBD (women’s soccer is in the gold medal game); Natalie Golda and Jamie Hipp, medal TBD (women’s water polo is in the gold medal game); The Bruin USA softballers (Andrea Duran, Lisa Fernandez, ...

UCLA medalists so far: Mark Hunter, gold (rowing, lightweight double sculls); Kim Vandenberg, bronze (swimming, 4×200 relay); Lauren Cheney, medal TBD (women’s soccer is in the gold medal game); The Bruin USA softballers (Andrea Duran, Lisa Fernandez, Tairia Flowers, Stacey Nuveman and Natasha Watley), medal TBD (they can’t do any worse than 3rd). WHAT TO LOOK FOR TONIGHT ...

S.O.S.—SAVE OUR SOFTBALL Given that we based our whole Olympic preview issue on the premise that The Games are all about the women, we decided to stop by a press conference with people determined to preserve softball as an Olympic sport. In 2005, the IOC unceremoniously dumped softball for the 2012 Summer Games in London. This despite the fact that the sport has grown from 86 countries ...