Australian Open result: Atreyu from The Neverending Story d. Roger Federer, 7-5, 2-6, 6-3.

Actually, the site's been up for about 13 months now, as its creators, Minnesota residents Sam Testa and Ben Malmo, have been testing it on a small scale. But today came the press release letting everyone know it's here. The sports satire site takes on The Onion in its own domain; something that's been tried before, with usually middling results. The only reason I note the launch of this one is that I glanced it over, and a lot of it looked pretty funny. Contrary to popular belief, catching that voice that The Onion folks have established so well is very hard to do.

"We know that we're in The Onion's territory, but they update their sports stuff only twice a week, so we thought there would be a market for this," said Testa, who during the day is an analyst for a Minneapolis health care company. Malmo is in corporate retail. About seven months ago they put out a call on Craigslist, among other Internet networking destinations, for writers and graphic artists in an attempt to go big with their site. There are 12 people, including two graphic artists, working on the site now, which updates daily.

"When people asked 'What do you pay?' we said 'Nothing,' Testa said. "The hope is to grow this thing until eventually we can hire a staff. Right now it's a labor of love."

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• How would you like to be a 41-year-old woman that everyone introduces by saying, "This is 41-year-old Dara Torres." Suck. Torres, who actually did some sideline reporting for NBC in their XFL coverage back in the day, has some experience with being a freak, and nearly capped off her Olympic comeback with gold. She missed Germany's Britta Steffen by 1/100th of a second in the 50-meter freestyle final. The silver is Torres' 11th Olympic medal. Nice going, mom.

• Raphael Nadal won Spain's first-ever gold in men's tennis, beating Fernando Gonzalez of Chile. He will officially dethrone Roger Federer as the world's number one ranked men's player on Monday. Federer lost to James Blake (USA! USA!) in the quarterfinals.

• Oh, and the Willams sisters kicked the shit out of everyone to win gold in women's doubles.