Quoted: The official Olympics medals table has China top and Great Britain third, but the US-favoured version has the US first and Team GB in fourth. Here are five ways of interpreting how countries rank according to the haul of gold, silver and bronze.

Two Indian boxers (who happen to be cousins) have each made the quarterfinals. That means they are each one win away from a medal.

Quoted: India's medal hopes in Beijing Olympics got another boost, with ace boxer Jitender Kumar reaching the quarterfinals of 51kg Flyweight category. After his cousin Akhil Kumar reached the quarterfinals by beating the World Champion, Jitender emulated his feat by beating Uzbek boxer Tulashboy Doniyorov 13-6 in an ill-tempered bout. "I dedicate this win to Akhil. He has been everything for me and I want to win a medal for him", said Jitender after winning the bout.

Not looking too good, but it is still early.

Quoted: A slight drizzle, which grew in intensity, forced a stoppage in play after just 16 minutes during which Federer and Wawrinka broke the Indians once to run up a 4-1 lead.

Raj Bhavsar's parents are from India.

Quoted: The last men standing included Kevin Tan, whose family is originally from China, and Raj Bhavsar, whose parents emigrated from the Gujarat region of India in the ’60s, and Sasha Artemev, who was born in Russia. And by some bizarre coincidence, these were the three best Americans on the pommel horse, the last of the six disciplines on Tuesday. Only in America.

Quoted: Michael Chang finds it appropriate he's receiving his sport's highest honor as China awaits the Olympics. Chang was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday and reflected on his experiences as a Chinese-American athlete. He won the 1989 French Open at age 17 -- the youngest man to win a major -- as the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing were escalating into bloodshed. - Tennis news

Interesting story. Unfortunately, Qureshi-Bopanna lost their second round match at Wimbledon.

Quoted: Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Rohan Bopanna of India are determined to prove that a little tennis diplomacy can help thaw relations between their two rival nation

This was definitely upset day at Wimbledon -- with Roddick, Sharapova, James Blake, and Sania Mirza all crashing out.

Quoted: Andy Roddick suffered his worst ever defeat at Wimbledon, bounced out of the second round 6-7, 7-5, 6-4, 7-6 by Janko Tipsarevic, the world No. 40, from Serbia.

I hope they will offer some of the realtime experiences (e.g. GameDay) that you can get for baseball through mlb.com

Quoted: Here’s a deal straight out of Rupert Murdoch’s playbook circa 1994. Just like Murdoch established Fox back then by paying an exorbitant-seeming sum ($1.6 billion at the time) for the rights to broadcast the NFL, Live Current Media is paying $50 million over ten years for the exclusive online rights to official content from the Indian Premier League (a new cricket league in India with a shorter, more fan-friendly version of the game—first match is tomorrow).