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The U.S. women totally and utterly dominated the first set of Saturday's Gold Medal Match against Brazil. The final three sets couldn't have been any different. Brazil reversed every shred of American momentum after dropping the first set and rallied to dominate the final three sets to bring home a second-consecutive Olympic title.

After the badminton scandal in which teams didn't play their best in order to gain a favorable position, all eyes will be on Monday's Spain-Brazil Olympic men's basketball Group B game.

If Americans don't fall in love with soccer after this, well, maybe they never will. Yes, the epic quarterfinal win by the U.S. women over Brazil featured nearly everything their countrymen hate about the "beautiful game."

The most recent statistics according to the IE6 Countdown shows that the world as a whole is at 10.9% usage on IE6. The United States, Turkey, Canada, Brazil, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and the UK are at the top (bottom) of the list with under 3% of overall browsers running as IE6. Norway leads everyone at 0.4% and their neighbors in Finland are at 0.8%.

While many soccer fans expect Brazil to win the World Cup for a record sixth time, almost half of the North Americans surveyed predict an unexpected triumph for the United States.

The United States led, 2-0, at halftime, before the 5-time World Cup winner stormed back and won the Confederations Cup final.

Brazil's formidable attack of Kaka, Robinho and Luis Fabiano will start in the Confederations Cup final against the United States on Sunday.