By KURT KRAGTHORPE, Salt Lake Tribune

BEIJING -- When she drove in the go-ahead run in extra innings of an Olympic softball semifinal game Wednesday, Caitlin Lowe was just doing her job.

The U.S. Olympic Committee's $1 million funding of the women's softball team this year helped the players travel across America and prepare for the Olympic tournament, while earning modest salaries.

Brett Favre will always be remembered for trying to pull off something unexpected and daring, hoping to fit a football into a tiny spot that only he believed he could hit with his gifted arm and unflinching confidence.

His latest attempt fell incomplete.

More accurately, it was intercepted by the Green Bay Packers themselves.

Just for fun, try suggesting to Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan that this Western Conference semifinal series with the Los Angeles Lakers is another chance for him to exorcise part of his history, to slay a personal dragon, to vindicate himself in the profession or any such thing.

Oh, yeah. You know what's coming: Blank stare. Wry, partial smile. Awkward silence.

He's far less famous than any of the quarterbacks and receivers who have made the best-remembered plays in recent Brigham Young football history, but defensive linemen Eathyn Manumaleuna did a