Wow! Those were quite the Olympics. The past two nights I've just kind of stared at my blank TV wondering where all the volleyball highlights were. Thankfully, American's who thought they couldn't get enough of Misty May-Treanor will get to see her chasse on the new season of Dancing With the Stars!

Since Sunday's Closing Ceremonies, a few questions have been on my mind (other than what the point of interviewing Michael Phelps in London was. Did anyone get anything out of that other than to confirm that there is in fact a British equivalent to Ryan Seacrest? Lucky them...). Looking forward to London in 2012...

1) How can London top Beijing's Opening Ceremonies? Aside from raising King Arthur from the dead and having him pull Excalibur out of a stone before using it to light the torch, I'm not sure we're going to see an Opening Ceremony like that again. If London's bit during the Closing Ceremonies was any indication, they're going to rely on a theme of "China's show may have been exotic, incredibly choreographed and awesomely inventive, but we have celebrities you recognize." Although Beijing did have Jackie Chan singing on Sunday!

2) What will the featured events be for the Brits? After 2004, China made a concentrated effort to focus on gymnastics, diving, table tennis and badminton...and it paid off in a huge gold medal haul. But the UK cleaned up in track cycling, they're definitely going to want to do well in soccer, and I'm sure they'll be a factor in rowing. If you go to the London venue page, they are hyping the velodrome and its 6,000 seats. Great news for cycling fans.

3) Will there be any new events? BMX and open water swimming had pretty exciting debuts. I've heard rumblings that golf and squash are on the list. Anybody know of anything else? I imagine darts would be a great sport to debut in London.

4) Speaking of open water swimming, I wonder where it will be held. The Thames? Maybe 10K out from the city in the English Channel and just have the athletes swim in? OK, probably not.

5) Will the pool be as fast as Beijing's? A majority of swimming races at these past games saw world records set. A majority of those had more than one person or relay team surpass the existing w.r. Sure the LZR suits helped, but there was no doubt that Beijing built a fast pool. I imagine London will look to do something similar.

6) Can the U.S. track team get back on track? Granted, on paper they did pretty well. But to track aficionados (and NBC studio hosts) we could have done a little bit better. How will USA Track & Field respond? Maybe Jerry Colangelo is available...

7) And finally, going beyond 2012, does Russia deserve to host the 2014 Winter Games? They blatantly broke the Olympic truce on the night of the Opening Ceremonies by invading Georgia. Sochi, the site of the 2014 Olympics, lies just several miles from the Georgian border. Yet IOC president Jacques Rogge felt content to save his criticisms during these past Games for Usain Bolt's post-race "antics." Please. What will it take between Georgia and Russia to affect the 2014 Winter Olympics? Let's hope something is worked out and aren't raising eyebrows in a few years as we can watch Vancouver hand over the flag to Sochi.

But until the next Games, I'll be rooting hard for Chicago's 2016 bid and keeping my eye on that Taylor Phinney kid. I hear he's got potential.

Redeem Team Gets Redemption on Spain

LeBron James led eight U.S. players in double figures with 18 points and pulled down eight rebounds as the Olympic men's basketball team continued its dominating ways with a 119-82 pounding of previously unbeaten Spain. With the game tied 9-9 in the first quarter James took the ball from the top of the key and drove to his left a and threw down a left handed jam like a man possessed. The very next trip James comes down and splashed a three pointerin the heart of the Spain defense. Then the very next trip down the floor earned a trip to the free throw line and sank both free throws for another quick two. Team USA never looked back from that point on.

The Americans had 7 steals in the first quarter alone and finished with 18 for the game. "We are never going to take a step back in this tournament," said James. "We'll only take steps forward and give ourselves a chance to win. This game means we're 4-0. A statement game? I don't know."

We looked like the United States of Athleticism on Saturday. From steals to dunks to sinking the three pointers the Americans look unbeatable at this stage in the competition. A 17-5 flurry in the second quarter extended the margin to 56-36 and the Redeem Team was on its way to another rout, certainly a major difference to what was witnessed four years ago when the Americans were relegated to the bronze medal at the Olympics.

It was 61-45 at the half and Spain never threatened over the final 20 minutes.

The final game for the U.S. in preliminary round play is Monday versus Germany.

Here are some of the Top 10 plays from this years USA Mens Basketball Team.

Can you say DREAM TEAM II?

Yes I know it is still early, but the 2008 USA Basketball team improved to 4-0 today with a Win over Angola. This is Angola's fifth consecutive Olympic appearance as the African champion. The Redeem Team stretched its muscles, got in a good conditioning run and left a chalk outline of Angola with a 97-76 thumping on Tuesday. While the Americans are fielding a smallish lineup with only Dwight Howard and Chris Bosh taller than 6-9, the Angolans were still overwhelmingly undersized with just one player as tall as 6-8. How easy was it? LeBron James, Dwight Howard, Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony were a combined perfect 18-for-18 shooting in the first half.

In 1992 the Dream Team lit up Angola with a plethora of exciting baskets and ending up winning by 68 points. Today when a player from Angola received the ball in the low post memories of 92' were in the air. Felizardo Ambrosio took the feed in the post turned and intended to score over Carlos Boozer, but before Ambrosio could even get to the apex of his jump, LeBron James flashed in like a rolling ball of thunder and swatted down the shot like it was a fly on the wall.

Kobe Bryant was an eyeful in the second half, stepping into the passing lanes for steals, kissing the ball in off the glass and giving the worshipping Chinese crowd all that it wanted with a breakaway 360-spin for a dunk in the third quarter.

Angola's Carlos Almeida said after the game, "What I will remember is the play in the second quarter, the USA was on a fast break and somebody passed the ball to LeBron and he dunked it with his left hand. I think it was amazing."

When Wade took a bounce pass from Deron Williams and climbed the ladder on the left baseline for a one-handed tomahawk slam, all it did was evoked more memories from '92. USA will win the Gold Medal this year, but will they play well enough to be finally dubbed Dream Team II?

All eyes will be on the USA Basketball Team this Friday night when we play Canada for an exhibition game before they head to Beijing. (8 p.m. ET, ESPN, ESPN360.com) Team USA is finally back together for a four-day U.S.-based portion of training camp in Sin City. It would be a sin, in the minds of many Americans, for the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team to return home from Beijing on Aug. 25 with anything less than the gold medal.

The Americans have two more workouts before facing Canada in an exhibition on Friday. Then the squad leaves for Macau, where it opens a four-game exhibition tour. The Olympic opener is Aug. 10 against host China in Beijing. They are working out against the USA Select Team which his headed up by Kevin Durant. Coincidently LeBron James suffered a mild ankle sprain when he landed on Durant's foot yesterday in a workout. He may miss the game Friday vs. Canada, but expected to be ready by August 10 in the opener against China.

For many Americans Friday night will kind of be the cartoon before the movie if you ask me. The whole country will be able to see potentially how well this year's team will do in the Olympic Games by getting a test drive against Canada.

"We're a team already," Coach Krzyzewski said. "One key word that we couldn't use in the past, continuity -- we have that. And we have relationships, too. As a result, we're hitting the ground running."

We'll all be watching for the sneak preview this Friday night against Canada!