Olympics: Hoop dreams turn into a nightmare
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The picture of defeat is the best basketball player in the galaxy slumped on a chair in the waning minutes. The picture of defeat is a coach shaking his head in disbelief, watching his team disintegrate.
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It would&#39;ve been understandable if American Matt Emmons had a bad first Olympic experience. The way things had been going, he seemed destined for that.
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The American had just taken his chance at a gold medal and tossed it like a stone into the Mediterranean, stumbling off the vault like a man stepping on his own shoe lace, nearly falling onto the judges&#39; table the way basketball players ...
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ATHENS, Greece, There it was, the almost incomprehensible. Manu Ginobili and 11 Argentines you never heard of running out the clock on NBA stars in the Olympics.
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ATHENS - They didn&#39;t always play with the energy of desperate men. But they played harder. They didn&#39;t often play an attractive brand of basketball, but they played it sometimes.
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Vouliagmeni, Greece - Watch Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel, think Hermann Maier. Awful crash, unlikely fightback, gold within days. Instant Olympic lore.
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Athens: United States failed to reach the menâs basketball final for the first time in 16 years and Italy shocked previously unbeaten Lithuania on Friday to set up an Olympic gold medal game that nobody expected.
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ATHENS, Greece - 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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As a child, Lin Ju lay in bed at his parents&#39; home in the Fujian province of China and dreamt of representing his country in the Olympic Games. Yesterday at the Galatsi Hall, the venue for the table tennis competition, that dream came true almost exactly ...
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The final night of gymnastics competition at the 2004 Games ended with another black eye for the beleaguered sport as spectators at Olympic Indoor Hall turned their rage against a panel
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SYDNEY/COLOGNE  - Certain horrifying prospects come to mind as the West gets ready to descend on Beijing to cover the 2008 Olympic Games.
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The United States suffered their worst  day of the Athens Olympics on Friday when a tearful Marion  Jones flopped, their basketball "Dream Team" were humiliated  and they captured only one of the 20 golds on offer.
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A rivalry in the Olympic pool that's straight out of Homeric central casting .
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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&#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 -- Look at it this way: At least the US basketball team won&#39;t be asked to give back its gold medal. On a day that was Olympic in scope both for its shock value and its intrinsic weirdness, the
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By BRIAN MAHONEY NEW YORK - The NBA has another ugly scene to recover from. This one involved its leading scorer and happened in its most famous arena.