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.

One game isn't enough to call doom and gloom over, but the narrow victory showed that Team USA can still be defeated because of a lack of consistent defense and an inability to gel together as a cohesive team, instead looking like a very good street-ball squad.

If they don't fix the weaknesses that were their undoing in 2004, it could be trouble come game time against Greece or Spain.

Brett Favre will have a losing record in New York.
Favre has all the talent and ability in the world to make things work with the Jets, but I don't think he'll be able to. And after a season or two of disappointment, he'll start kicking around the "R" word again, this time for good.