7:15 PM: Scott Wolf of the L.A. Daily News notes that French swimmer Clement Lefert's gold medal in the 400m Sunday relay means that a USC athlete has won gold in every Olympics since 1912.
7:00 PM: A Lauderdale County (Alabama) judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former Hatton High School football coach after he was fired at the end of last season.
6:45 PM: U.S. Olympic women's soccer goalie Hope Solo won't face any discipline from team coach Pia Sundhage after Solo took to Twitter to complain about commenting from Brandi Chastain.
6:30 PM: In response to criticism against NBC for tape-delaying the Olympic opening ceremony & other events, someone has created an "NBC Delayed" Twitter account. First post on Sunday: "BREAKING: American colonists announce independence, King to respond."
6:15 PM: Singer Tom Jones had to cancel his Olympic celebration concert scheduled for Saturday in Hyde Park after contracting bronchitis.
6:00 PM: The Houston Astros defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-5 Sunday to end their club-record 12-game losing streak.
5:45 PM: The Spanish men's soccer team was eliminated from the Olympics after Sunday's 1-0 defeat to Honduras, while Senegal gave Uruguay its first-ever Olympic defeat in a 2-0 win.
5:30 PM: The Cincinnati Reds say that play-by-play announcer Marty Brennaman will have his head shaved if the Reds beat the Rockies today. Brennaman made the pledge at the start of the season that he would do it if the Reds won 10 straight games.
5:15 PM: Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Sunday he wants his team to return to its "glory hole" days.
5:00 PM: NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson won his fourth Brickyard 400 title at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday, tying the record set by Jeff Gordon.
4:45 PM: ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale tweets that Illinois is "totally classless" for trying to recruit football players from Penn State.
4:30 PM: Iowa Hawkeyes RB De'Andre Johnson has been suspended indefinitely following his two arrests in the past three days. Johnson was cited Thursday for loud music at his home, and was arrested Saturday for speeding & evading police.
4:15 PM: U.S. Olympic swimmer Dana Vollmer set a new world record in the 100m butterfly Sunday. Vollmer's time of 55.98 was 0.08 seconds faster than the previous mark.
4:00 PM: "Breaking Bad" actor Bryan Cranston tweets some advice to Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps: "Channel your inner Walter White. As you look at the water imagine blue crystal and say to yourself, I AM the danger!."
3:45 PM: New York Jets LB Bart Scott says of Tim Tebow removing his top at practice: "I've never seen anybody decide to take their shirt off in the rain. Maybe it was holy water ... I don't know."
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