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Also be sure to check out Gothamist Sports' Olympics coverage; for further beach volleyball examination, check out Tien's own site.

- Silvers for the men's team and women's team, golds for Hamm and for Patterson.

- Gothamist Interview serves up some sexy interviewee this week, like Tristan Taormino

- Check out Little Steven's International Underground Garage Festiva on Randall's Island via Coolfer's music picks

It's somewhat strange that an Olympic event would take place before the opening ceremonies of the games, but that's just what happened yesterday. The United States defeated Greece, the host country, in women's soccer, 3-0. Wednesday was the first day of Olympic action and women's soccer is the only event before the opening ceremonies.

- Gothamist Food: V Steakhouse reviewed

- Kevin Brown returns to form for the Yankees.

Gothamist Sports analyzed the IOC's announcement of the 2012 Olympics finalists and on the fight against the city's bid

- And the voice of the Mets, Bob Murphy dies, and Isiah Thomas continues to shore up the Knicks on Gothamist Sports

Here at Gothamist Sports, we're looking for another person to join our "team". We would like someone who loves football and could ideally write 4 entries a week on the Jets and Giants. The job is unpaid, but you would get to have your name all over your column and a bio - sounds great, no?

Luo's article points out that some subway stations are already branded: The 116th station is associated with Columbia University, 47-50 Street is Rockefeller Center, and Times Square is really named after the Times. Some other stations are branded, though not officially: Bedford is Hipster City; Seventh Avenue in Park Slope is MacLaren Baby Stroller Row; and on some game nights, the 7 is the Mets Express. The NY Times also speaks with people about the possibility of sponsored subway stations: "That's insane."

Gothamist Sports on the Yankees-Red Sox games this past weekend.

The NY Times had special Democratic Convention section, in addition to their Campaign 2004 site. And here's the Washington Post's extensive convention site. Talking Points Memo's Joshua Micah Marshall writes how MSNBC's convention coverage site (here) has "absorbed the blogging model to something like a mind-bending degree." It's true - MSNBC has a blog, Hardblogger, (heh!) and Gothamist was shocked Chris Matthews' posts weren't in all caps or bold....an assistant must have posted 'em.

Don't forget to check out the full week of Gothamist Sports action.

Gothamist is even going to take advantage of the weekend - we're summering in the city! It's be reduced posts across the site, but we'll back at full power on Tuesday. But there's tons of Gothamist to read if need your fix: Ask Gothamist, Gothamist Arts & Events, Gothamist Interview, Gothamist Sports, and Gothamist Weather. If clicking through so many sites is daunting, fear not, there's the Gothamist Digest that's everything Gothamist.

Mostly sunny again. High of 83.

The NBA's Expansion Draft was held last night, so now Charlotte Bobcats have the beginnings of a roster. They chose a total of 19 players, but most of them will not be with the team on opening night next year. The Bobcats chose nine restricted free agents, which automatically turned them into unrestricted free agents, allowing those nine players to negotiate a new contract with any team in the league except for the team that left them unprotected in the draft. Got that? Click here for the rest of the expansion draft rules.