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Name game

Athlete of the Hour Beauts & Busts Featured Expert Four Years Ago Gold Rush Heard Around Town Margin of Victory On the Spot Storylines By Mitch Gelman and Adam Levine, CNNSI.com SYDNEY, Australia -- Some athletes arrived with nicknames. Others picked them up in the press or from teammates or fans. Here are a few: The Princess: Glamorous Italian volleyballer Maurizia Cacciatori Vegas: U.S. softball pitcher Lori Horrigan, who lives in Las Vegas Scud: Hard-serving Australian tennis player Mark Philippoussis Thorpey: Seventeen-year-old hearthrob Aussie swimmer Ian Thorpe The Waco Express: Texas-based 400-meter man Michael Johnson Boomers: Australian men's basketball team Flying Dutchman: Dutch swimmer Pieter van der Hoogenband Madame Butterfly: Australian fly specialist Susie O'Neill Our Cathy: Aussie's name for 400-meter champ Cathy Freeman Pheno - MO - non: 100-meter king Maurice Greene's self-moniker Hockeyroos: Australian women's field hockey team Eric the Swimmer: Equatorial Guinea's Eric Moussambani The Canon: Aussie beach volleyball player Kerrie Pottharst

The C.J. and Marion saga continued when Marion Jones came to her husband's defense at a press conference that was part O.J. Trial with hotshot attorney Johnnie Cochran, Jr., hovering in the wings, and part Hillary and Bill, with Marion holding C.J.'s hand and giving him a quick peck on the cheek in front of the cameras.

Maybe it was the voodoo wash or the pep talks from Tommy Lasorda, or maybe it was the grit of a bunch of hard-nosed, if not hard-hitting, women who refused to give in. The U.S. softball team dispatched China, Australia and Japan in the medal round to bring home the gold.

Angelo Taylor battles for gold in the 400-meter hurdles in a three-man race that includes South Africa's Llewellyn Herbert and Saudi Arabia's Hadi Souan Somayli.

U.S. men's beach volleyball champions Dain Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana upset a favored Brazilian team to win the gold medal.

U.S. Greco-Roman wrestler Matt Lindland predicted he would gain the gold-medal match, and got there. Lindland lost to Russia's Mourat Kardanov, but he earns an unexpected silver medal. Members of the volunteer "G'day Brigade" have been selling their Olympics parking passes, access passes, t-shirts and windbreakers to collectors, raising security concerns. For the second time in a week, sharks off the Australian coast have taken the lives of surfers. A 25-year-old honeymooning New Zealander was eaten by a great white while he was surfing on Sunday, and a 17-year-old was eaten by a shark on Monday. With the silver in the 110-meter hurdles, Terrence Trammell took the title of top U.S. high-hurdler away from a still-tentative Allen Johnson, who is coming back from a slight hamstring injury. Cuban Anier Garcia won the gold medal, with American Mark Crear finishing third. Johnson ran fourth in the race. The bar-cam that sits atop the high jump and poll vault bars gives a close up look at the top of the leapers' efforts to clear their heights. If they could all be so good! On a memorable night at Stadium Australia, seven track and field stars put forth stellar performances worthy of Olympic attention, says Sports Illustrated's Brian Cazeneuve . Dot Richardson, 34, hit a disputed two-run home run that gave the United States a 2-0 lead en route to a 3-1 softball gold medal victory over China. -- Sports Illustrated's Peter King Today's Finals | SI's Brian Cazeneuve: Daily Medal Picks Baseball  Men's  Cycling  Men's Road Race  Sailing  Men's Double-handed Dinghy (470)     Women's Double-handed Dinghy (470)  Taekwondo  Women's Under-49 Kilograms     Men's Under-58 Kilograms  Tennis  Women's Singles     Men's Doubles  Track and Field  Men's 400-Meter Hurdles | 800-Meters     Women's Discus Throw | 100-Meter Hurdles | 400-Meter Hurdles  Wrestling (Greco-Roman)  58 kg | 69 kg | 85 kg | 130 kg  International Olympic Committee Vice President Dick Pound was spotted dining in Circular Quay when someone asked him how ready Athens was to host the 2004 Games. Pound's response: "It's not." U.S. heavyweight boxer Michael Bennett's medal hopes were dashed when Cuban Felix Savon pulled to a 15-point lead, triggering the mercy rule before the third round ended. Two-time defending Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong tries to overcome injury in the road race and add Olympic gold to his collection.

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