Favre's Done, the 'Dream Team' Is Toast

It's been a long, tough summer for sports fans. The lull between the NBA Finals and the start of football season is a tough one to overcome, with only baseball to hold us over. But with the rapidly approaching start of some new seasons, it's time to take a look at where things could end up in several sports come this time next year.

That means I need to make some more predictions. Six of them, in fact.

Team USA basketball will not win the gold in Beijing.

The newest reincarnation of the Dream Team hopes to break the eight-year gold medal drought for men's basketball at the Beijing Olympics. They're undefeated in pre-Olympic tune-up play thus far, but last week's 87-76 win over Australia was a bit close for comfort. ...