U.S. in Beijing: Red, white and very blue

BEIJING -- U.S. women's softball and U.S. women's beach volleyball, two sure things at the Olympics. Make that one sure thing. Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor, who have never lost a set in the games, overcame steady rain, the partisan crowd and China's Wang Jie and Tian Jia 21-18, 21-18 Thursday for their second straight beach volleyball gold medal. The duo has won 108 consecutive matches, a streak that could end soon because both plan to start families.