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This is Thai Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon, she won the gold in the 53kg weight lifting competition. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you have no chance of being able to pronounce her name.

There were a lot of exciting sporting events this weekend, but none was more exciting to me than my former Little League stomping grounds securing a spot in Williamsport. As I've mentioned before on this site, my 12 year old all star team won the Connecticut state title and was eventually defeated in Bristol. Well this year my squad and the squad from last year was one upped. Down 1-0 in the 6th, after breezing through the previous New England Regional games, Shelton was 2 outs away from heading home. But they were not to be denied and with solo homers from Tyler Tice and Marcelo Ursini they pulled out a thrilling 2-1 victory making them the first Connecticut representative in Williamsport since Chris Drury lead Trumbull National to the crown. Congrats, good luck and go get 'em.

Apparently one thing in golf you can continually count on is Sergio blowing up on the back 9 on Sunday in a major. If there was a sunday lined up perfectly for Sergio to take home his first major, it was most certainly yesterday. And yet he of course found a way to cough it up. Simply put the start of Sergio's round could not have started off better. After two holes Sergio had rifled in two drives, had pinpointed his approach shots and had tapped in his easy putts for birdie and eagle. By the 6th hole Sergio had reached -3 under a share of the lead. This share of the lead would eventually disintegrate and the 2007 British Open was about to be rehashed. Watching Padraig once again pummel the back 9 of a major, Sergio got that same choking feeling and dunked one in the water. And then of course tied up with Harrington on the 17th with a closer putt, Sergio followed up Paddy's thrilling birdie with the typical missed putt. Then needing a birdie on the final hole and watching...

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Last Favre Post of the Week. I Promise. He Didn't Look Too Comfy Perhaps this was to be expected, I mean if you were the face of a franchise for 16 years and people kept on pummeling you with questions about your former team, would you look comfortable. And why wouldn't you feel awkward holding up a green jersey without any yellow. Anyway, it certainly would have felt better as a Jet fan if he came off gung-ho, but to expect him to be over Green Bay in a day is probably not realistic. Plus he is a southern sap. No Logical Person Can Criticize this From the Jets End As much as you may hate Brett Favre or as much as you may think he sucks or think he's overrated or over the hill, if you think Chad Pennington is a better quartback you are smoking some heavy crack. Hey, I love Pennington and I think he can lead a team to the playoffs, but he's not as good as Brett Favre. He might be 5 years younger, but his arm is about 10 years older. And while you may say Favre has a...

Instead of going through analysis of given teams, for which I would probably just be guessing, I rather am going to assess each conferences schedules. In particular each conference Out of Conference schedules to see if they like the cupcakes or an actual challenge. Summary The Big 12 which I typically find the least interesting conference in America has surprisingly put together a solid rotation of games. With the exception of Texas Tech, whom seems like the Big 12s version of Wisconsin in accordance to aversion of difficult games, the Big 12 plays a bunch of tough games. The Big 12s biggest positive is that for the most part they avoided any bottom of the BCS bottom of the barrel teams. They have games against top conference schools like Va Tech and WVU and then they play a bunch of middle of the pack to contender BCS schools like Illinois, Arkansas, Miami, FSU, etc. The worst BCS opponents they play are arguably the Washington schools but even they are no Duke or Northwestern or...