You want to see the real "Dream Team". Forget Men's Hoops. Look no further than USA Women's Softball, arguably the most dominant team of any sort on the planet.

Before Athens, the team had a 53 game barnstorming tour of the US and Italy. I caught 3 of these games on ESPN (Texas, Arizona & UCLA) and it was simply unfair. Team USA, a fine balance of speed and power destroyed all comers handily. On their tour, the finished a lofty 53-0 with a team batting average over 400, almost 80 home runs, a team ERA below .030, 4 perfect games, 12 no-hitters and god knows how many strikeouts. In a word, awesome.

In Athens, they've kept the throttle down winning their first three games without giving up a run. I stayed up last night to watch the game against Japan, the team USA played in the gold medal game in Sydney. Cat Osterman pitched a scintillating 8 inning 1-hitter as they beat Japan 3-0 in extra frames. Japan is probably the toughest competition they will face in these games, so a gold medal is likely.