US team&#39;s class clown `grip-and-rips&#39; his way to a pole vault ...
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He&#39;s a California surfer dude, an air guitar virtuoso -- and the US Olympic team&#39;s resident class clown. Toby Stevenson also happens to be very good at what he does: the pole vault.
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&quot;Don&#39;t point your finger at me! Don&#39;t point your finger at me!&quot; It didn&#39;t take an expert lip reader to interpret what US coach Larry Brown was saying to Spanish counterpart Mario Pesquera during their dust-up after Team USA&#39;s win Thursday.
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ATHENS -- Tom Pappas, a US gold medal favorite in the decathlon, saw his quest for an Olympic crown dashed yesterday by a serious foot injury that forced him to withdraw from the pole vault portion of the 10-event competition.
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ATHENS No one had run faster than the US 100-meter sprinters - at least without a baton. But put the stick in an unpracticed American&#39;s hand on the track in these Olympics, and it transforms talent into tumult.
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ATHENS -- We'll have to wait until the lab reports come back. This is the modern era of track and field after all, when it can take four years for Olympic results to become final (right, Jerome Young?). But when the last baton crossed the line here last night, the US team had turned in a heck of a meet, ...
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The American men answered their critics who said they were lucky to qualify for the Beijing Olympics by finishing fourth yesterday at the world gymnastics championships in Stuttgart, Germany. If not for two falls off the high bar, the United States would have been the bronze medalist. China breezed to its third consecutive title â and seventh in the past eight world championships â by an almost 5-point margin. Japan took the silver and Germany the bronze, 1.25 points ahead of the Americans.
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When a day of drama had ended and the quarterfinal pairings were set, the news was not great for the United States. In order to get to the semifinals and possibly the gold medal game, first the Americans will have to defeat Spain &#151; the team that left the widest wake of impressed and defeated opponents during the preliminary round.
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ATHENS, Greece  The US swimming team&#39;s loose cannon, Gary Hall Jr., appeared to have upstaged the team&#39;s big gun, Michael Phelps.
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PAUL HAMM&#39;S fall and rise are what make the Olympics so much more than a sports event. The US gymnast who spun despair into gold on Wednesday gives hope to the whole human endeavor by defusing the word &quot;loser.&quot; ...
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ATHENS -- Almost a clean getaway . . . Team USA is trying so hard to be the international good fellas. No showboating. No mugging. No smiling. No complaining to refs (when Lamar Odom angrily threw down a towel in response to one call against his team, coach Larry Brown whirled around, directed him back to the bench, and kicked ...
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The US men&#39;s Olympic basketball team will try to bounce back from an upset loss in their opening group match against Puerto Rico with a match-up against host Greece.
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THENS, Aug. 29  Swimming&#39;s technique critic came in for some criticism of his own tonight in the shark tank disguised as the Olympic pool. But all&#39;s well that ends well on the medal stand and, despite being disqualified shortly ...
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One of the hallmarks of Tom Brennan&#39;s 19-year run as Vermont men&#39;s basketball coach has been his approach to filling the point guard position.
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ATHENS - The US men have a basketball medal, but there is little consolation in the prize. Third place fell a couple of steps short of expectations, but the Americans had nowhere else to go Saturday in what
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ATHENS, Greece -- The American women&#39;s gymnasts were in contention for the team gold medal Tuesday night, needing a big finish to beat the Romanians. Courtney Kupets, who had to be replaced on the balance beam because of a pulled hamstring, decided to ...
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Before the Olympics, the five gold medals and the world records, Michael Johnson was a skinny kid who almost quit his high school track team because he didn't think he was good enough. Now he wants to turn youngsters into better athletes with equipment and coaching that wasn't around when he went to Dallas Skyline High.
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The early, brutal assessments are in, and the US Ryder Cup team&#39;s historic loss to Europe at Oakland Hills is being compared to the US Olympic basketball Dream Team&#39;s flop in Greece.