The win is controversial though as Phelps won the 100 meter butterfly by a mere 0.01 second. It’s fun to watch swimming and it’s even more fun watching this particular event because Cavic protested the results.

Cavic, however, eventually conceded after super slow-mo replays.  It looks, though, that he is not whole-heartedly accepting the defeat.

Here’s a video of the event.  You won’t get the clear copy of the video in YouTube because of copyright issues.  I found a home video version of the swim event, nevertheless.  Enjoy:

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If you ask me, there should be a 50-50 sharing.  Pacquiao is as marketable as De La Hoya at this stage of Oscar’s career.

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Michael Phelps is dominating the swimming event in the Beijing Olympics! Six gold medals and six broken world records!  I am rooting for Phelps.  I have been rooting for him since I first knew about him during the last Olympics in Athens.

He is, of course, trying to break Mark Spitz’s record of seven gold medals in a single Olympic event. Phelps still has two more swimming events left in the Beijing Olympics.

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Roger Federer lost to James Blake… yahu! I don’t want Federer to gain confidence for the rest of his tennis career. I would want to keep Pete Sampras’ record for the most number of Grand Slam tournaments won intact.

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The USA Redeem Team (basketball) is crushing its opponents… although they couldn’t quite do what The Dream Team did in terms of destroying the competition.

I’m glad that Kobe Bryant is more recognizable than Lebron James in China. Sorry, King James, but Kobe is still the KING.  I should disclose, however, that I also like Lebron.  He’s a very un-assuming guy.

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Rafael Nadal recently defeated Roger Federer for the French Open title. It’s another setback for Federer’s quest for the highest number of grand slams won in tennis. Of course, the record holder is “Pistol Pete” Sampras. I wrote earlier that Pistol Pete is my all-time tennis hero.

I certainly hope this is the start of Federer’s decline in tennis. A lot of new players are on the rise to challenge Federer’s supremacy – Djokovic, Tsonga and maybe the surprise of the recent French Open, frenchman Gael Monfils.

By the way, I don’t play tennis but I know the rules and started watching it when Ivan Lendl was the world no. 1. Ivan is my first tennis hero, Sampras, second and all-time. After Sampras’ retirement, I felt it wasn’t fun watching tennis anymore.

And women’s tennis? I’ve stopped watching it years ago, when Steffi Graf decided to quit.

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Anyways, you could say that I watched Kobe grow in front of my very own eyes. This article very articulately documents his evolution. I have never seen Kobe this way (how the author put it all together elegantly) and yet it seems like I have always known all along what this author is trying to say.

At age 24, Kobe was remarkably like Jordan — and somehow, not him, akin to a musical prodigy, capable of playing any sonata the seasoned concert pianist could, yet somehow, lacking the intangible quality that distinguished the genius from the flawless imitator…

I always saw Kobe as being a very good basketball player – the best in the world today, since maybe year 2001 when they won their 2nd championship, but I didn’t find him graceful enough (unlike Michael Jordan) and wasn’t quite the basketball god as Jordan was. It seemed to me that Kobe was trying hard in everything he does in the basketball court. When jumped for a shot, it seemed like he was not comfortable with his pose. When he ran, it seemed like he was dragging with him an invisible chain. Don’t get me wrong. He was still graceful, just not graceful enough.

The fact is that whether by coincidence or conscious effort, the similarities between Bryant and Jordan’s mannerisms are unmistakable. The steady, loping strides as Bryant drives the ball upcourt, tongue wagging; the backward strut, head nodding, after he buries a jump shot; even the timbre and rhythm of his speech when he addresses the media are all vintage Jordan. And with Bryant’s new bulk, the physical similarity between the two — they are the same height and virtually the same weight — is impossible to ignore.

Today, I see him prancing like a gazelle going from coast to coast, making the fadeaway jumper effortlessly, a la Michael Jordan, and I see something that will finally make me think that Kobe is a basketball god in his own right. It’s not that he runs or shoots that fadeaway jumper like Jordan. It’s how he does it – finally doing it like he’s dancing in the wind, almost unmindful of the defenders around him.

Yes, Kobe’s teammates are better, but it’s not because he’s suddenly passing them the ball where he wasn’t before. A season ago, he gave them the ball plenty.

They’re better because for the first time, they’re matching his effort.

This is the first time I’ve read an article, in so little words, explain what I wanted to explain to the whole world – that Kobe doesn’t really want to win a ballgame all by himself (but he’ll do it if he has to).

They’re better because for the first time, they’re matching his effort.

If a Laker game is a beautiful painting, the opposing team is the frame, the Laker team is the paint, and Kobe is the painter.

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