I'm on vacation the rest of the week. My friends and I have dubbed it the Baseball Trip of a Lifetime.
Three games in three cities in three days. Oh, and the game at Yankee Stadium on Thursday is Red Sox vs. Yankees, likely the last time Boston ever plays in that building.
Next stop: good times with good friends.
Rain poured onto the beach volleyball court at Chaoyang Park in Beijing, China. Rain poured down onto Americans Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh, all over China's Wang Jie and Tian Jia.
How are four women wearing next to nothing going to play beach volleyball for a gold medal in pouring rain?
Beautifully.
This wouldn't be a slam dunk, or ... err ... umm ... spike, either. Wang & Tian may have lost to Walsh & May-Treanor five times but they've also beat the US team twice.
But Kerri & Misty's 108th straight win got them their second straight Olympic gold. I'd venture to say none of the 107 previous matches looked this good. The Americans defeated Wang & Tian 21-18, 21-18. They didn't lose a set in seven Olympic matches.
Did I mention it was pouring down rain and they had to play in their tiny 'uniforms' soaking wet?
Awwwwww, poor hot beach volleyball players.
"The rain makes it better," Walsh shouted during a post-win interview. Yes, Little Miss Six Feet of Sunshine, yes it did.
Last week NBC did this big ol' piece on Michael Phelps' diet, what the American swimmer eats everyday. Click back a couple entries to check out the "gold medal diet." So my mom, her boyfriend and I decided to try to tackle the breakfast portion. In the photo is the waitress reacting to my telling her Phelps eats all that for breakfast everday, and that's what the three of us want on our table.
Did we do it?
Could we make it through the three fried egg sandwiches, three chocolate chip pancakes, three slices of french toast, hash browns (sub for bowl of grits), five-egg omelet and coffee?
Click the pic for a video of Aron Bender's Michael Phelps Breakfast Challenge.
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