The U.S. beach volleyball team of Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser advanced to the gold medal match by beating a duo from Georgia. The reigning world champions won by the scores of 21-11, 21-13. The U.S. pair will play on Friday in the gold medal match against Marcio and Fabio, who upset Athens gold medalists and fellow Brazilians Emanuel and Ricardo, 22-20, 21-18 to reach the final.

The newest event in the Olympics, BMX, started competition today and three Americans advanced from the preliminary heats. The group includes Mike Day, Donny Robinson and Kyle Bennett. The women's prelims will take place tomorrow along with the awarding of all medals in BMX.

The U.S. men's basketball team has a quarterfinal game tonight against Australia. The U.S. is unbeaten after five preliminary games against China, Angola, Greece, Spain and Germany. Dwayne Wade of Team USA says he wants to continue the trend.

The U.S. faces Japan in baseball tonight. This is the final preliminary game for manager Dave Johnson's club. The American's have won 4 of 6 games so far.

A check of the list of medals shows the U.S. still on top of China, but by only 2 medals now. The American team has 79 medals overall with 26 gold, 26 silver and 27 bronze. The host nation has 77 medals with 44 gold, 14 silver and 19 bronze.

At the parks it was Florida past San Francisco 6-0. Colorado beat Los Angeles 8-3 to fall a game back of Arizona who lost 7-6 to San Diego. Tampa doubled up Anaheim 4-2 and Minnesota throttled Oakland 13-2.

It took 14 innings but the Tacoma Raineers put an end to the Rivercat's 7 game winning streak with a 3-2 win at Raley Field.

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Spain's Olympic basketball team has come under fire for the picture where the team is purposely pulling back the skin around their eyes to make them appear slanted. Apparently, that kind of humor plays in Spain, but doesn't in China.

Olympics:

Phelps set another world record. That's three world records in as many races. His win today came in the 200 freestyle.

Natalie Coughlin successfully defended her gold medal in the 100 backstroke. Margaret Hoelzer was third in the race. In the women's 100 breaststroke, the winner of the silver was Rebecca Soni while in the men's 100 back, Aaron Peirsol was first with Matt Grevers second.

The U.S. men's artistic gymnastics team pulled a big surprise by finishing third. The team wasn't expected to medal after the withdrawal of Morgan and Paul Hamm because of injuries. China won with defending champion Japan second.

The U.S. softball team has started play with another lopsided win, this time 11-0 over Venezuela. Pitchers Jennie Finch and Monica Abbott combined on a no-hitter and the U.S. got home runs from Natasha Watley, Caitlin Lowe and Crystl Bustos.

The United States now has 7 gold, 6 silver and 8 bronze, China has 11 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze, and South Korea is third with 10 medals overall.

NFL:

The Raiders have signed Adam Archuletta to a contract in attempt to add depth to their defense. Archie, the long time Ram, was cut by the Bears after one disappointing season. Speaking of the Raiders, former Raider and Buc Warren Sapp says head coach Lane Kiffen is doing what he can to change the mind set in Oakland.

Aaron Rogers went 9-15 for 117 yards and touchdown in the Packer's 20-17 pre-season setback to the Bengals.

The Seattle Seahawks will be without wide reciever Bobby Engram for up to eight weeks after he suffered a shoulder injury in the pre-season opener vs Minnesota.

Baseball:

Manny Ramirez finally showed up and drove in a pair of runs to compliment Casey Blake's two run jack as the Dodgers dumped the Phillies 8-6 to move one game back of the idle Diamondbacks in the National League West. The Dbacks have aquired slugger Adam Dunn from the Reds for minor league hurler Dallas Buck and two players to be named later.

Brandon Backe fanned six in seven innings as the Astros beat the Giants 3-1.

Cards beat the Marlins 4-2. The shaky Met's bull pen coughed up a night inning lead in a 7-5 loss to the Pirates.

Corey Hart's two run homer helped the Brewers defeat the Nationals 7-1.

AL parks included the Twins 4-1 triumph over the Yankees. Red Sox beat the White Sox 5-1.

And the 51's beat the Rivercats 6-5 at Cashman field as Vegas avoids the four game sweep.