USA All The Way!

It has been a very rough year rooting for USA teams in international sporting competitions. We have such extremely talented players that I keep expecting overwhelming success, or even plain old ordinary success, and yet ...

• World Baseball Classic: USA finishes out of the medal round
• World Hockey Championships: USA finishes out of the medal round
• World Cup of Soccer: don’t make me laugh
• World Championship of Basketball (Men): USA loses in the semi-finals and wins the Bronze Medal. What a huge disappointment to see the most talented players in the world lose to Greece.
  
• World Championship of Basketball (Women): I thought this was the team that would go all the way, as they hadn’t lost in international competition since 1994. The result: same as the men, a Bronze Medal, a few months later. What a huge disappointment to see the most talented players in the world lose to Russia.
• Ryder Cup (Golf): not even Tiger Woods can save the Americans

Thank heavens for Cat Osterman and USA Softball, the only USA team in a team sport (that I follow) to win a Gold Medal in the world championships this year. I’m glad I took the time to watch on the Internet, but the broadcast ended with the last pitch, and I didn’t get to see the celebration.