Upset brewing?

Don't look now, but I've spotted a Dark Horse from way back. Earlier this week, Tamara Willit Hurt was sitting in sixth. Leslie's team has already vaulted to third. But she may not be done. Take a look at what happens if the favorites win out in every remaining event:

Lea's Team (projected points in bold):
1. Michael Phelps - 24
2. Alexander Artemev Donny Robinson - 3
3. Women's Softball - 3
4. Matt Emmons - 2
5. Women's basketball - 3
6. David Boudia
7. Jonathan Horton - 3
8. Haley Ishimatsu
9. James Blake
10. Eva Lee
11. Samantha Peszek - 2
12. Jason Parker Kristin Armstrong - 3

Projected total: 43

Leslie's Team (projected points in bold)
1. Nastia Liukin - 10
2. Ryan Lochte - 8
3. Jeremy Wariner - 6
4. Jason Lezak - 7
5. Allyson Felix - 3
6. Womens Soccer - 3
7. Shawn Crawford - 2
8. Christian Cantwell - 2
9. Sanya Richards - 1
10. Steven Lopez - 3
11. Anna Willard
12. Destinee Hooker Tiffany Ross-Williams - 2


Projected total: 47


It would be a huge upset. Remember that you heard it here first!

Fall? What fall?

OK. No one say anything to Alicia Sacramone about falling off the beam. She could do this to you:

Hanging tough...

Yeah, I might not have lucked into Michael Phelps (I mean, I'm not saying there was hanky-panky with the name-drawing, but the people doing the drawing ended up 1-2... just saying... kidding, btw), but the Red Army is hanging tough.

And I haven't even handed out the steroids yet...

You tell them, Bela!

“They are using half-people,” Bela Karolyi told the Associated Press (about the Chinese women's gymnastics team). “One of the biggest frustrations is, what arrogance. These people think we are stupid.

“We are in the business of gymnastics and we know what a kid of 14 or 15 or 16 looks like. You don’t have to be a gymnastics coach to know what they look like at 16.”

“What kind of slap in the face is this?” Karolyi asked. “They are 12, 14 years old, max. And they line them up for the world … and having the government back them?”

"Since they forced an age limit, it has gotten worse and worse. The FIG is running away from the age problem. They set an age limit and now they can't control it."