Olympic Basketball: United States Stunned Again
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The United States crashed to its second  defeat in the Olympic men's basketball tournament Saturday when  a late shooting spree by Sarunas Jasikevicius propelled  Lithuania to a 94-90 victory.
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The U.S. men's basketball team is in the  unfamiliar position of trying to look forward after backing  into the quarter-finals of the Olympic basketball tournament.
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China grabbed its first-ever men's  Olympic gold in track and field on Friday, but it was a night  of misery for Americans, who saw any chance of a fourth  consecutive gold in basketball crushed.
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United States failed to reach the men's  basketball final for the first time in 16 years and Italy  shocked previously unbeaten Lithuania Friday to set up an  Olympic gold medal game that nobody expected.
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Sick, injured and reeling from a humiliating loss, the United States basketball team struggled past Greece 77-71 in an Olympic preliminary-round game that signaled more difficulties to come.
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The United States men's basketball team endured another brutal loss Saturday night. But because Angola is playing even worse than the Americans, the Dream Team is in the quarterfinals of the Athens Games.
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ATHENS : Allen Iverson scored 17 points despite a fractured right thumb and the reeling United States team was pushed to the brink before beating Greece 77-71 in an Olympic preliminary round basketball game.
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The U.S. men's basketball team were once  again in danger of defeat at the Olympic tournament on  Thursday, trailing Australia 51-47 at the end of the first  half.
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Britain took a shock gold in the men&#39;s Olympic 4x100 meters relay Saturday, pipping favorite the United States by one hundredth of a second.
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When it comes right down to it, basketball is still a shooter&#39;s game. Especially international basketball. And on Friday, the US once again simply didn&#39;t shoot the ball well enough, succeeding on only 32 of
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The Duke coach was supposed to be Team USA's savior, but their stunning loss to Greece showed that he is a mere mortal - and that U.S. basketball still hasn't learned the right lessons from the Athens Olympics
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The US men&#39;s basketball team was beaten by Argentina and booed off the court by the crowd on Friday as it was denied an Olympic gold medal for the first time since 1992 when NBA players started competing.
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ATHENS - Bronze is better than nothing. That&#39;s one Olympic lesson the US men&#39;s basketball team was able to understand. The Americans took the third-place game seriously Saturday night, earning some revenge
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No one seemed surprised, and by now, perhaps it would have been the height of denial had the US men&#39;s Olympic basketball team found any of this unexpected.
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The United States men&#39;s basketball team looked nothing like the Dream Team as Puerto Rico pounded them, 92-73, in Sunday&#39;s preliminary round game. This was the third ever loss for the American men in Olympic basketball competition. However, the American ...
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ATHENS, Greece - By the end of the Olympic basketball tournament&#39;s first week, the shock of the United States&#39; opening-game loss to Puerto Rico was wearing off.
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SAITAMA, Japan  - Despite suffering a demoralizing   defeat by a brilliant Greece at the world basketball   championship, the United States are looking long-term.