Dream Team Beaten by Argentina 89-81
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ATHENS, Greece Aug. 27, 2004 - The US men&#39;s basketball team will go home from the Olympics without a gold medal for the first time since it began using NBA players after the Americans were beaten soundly by Argentina 89-81 in the semifinals Friday.
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Larry Brown's squad could not overcome a 28-point effort by Lithuania's Sarunas Jasikevicius. Despite the 94-90 loss, the Americans advanced to the quarterfinals.
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Puerto Rico upsets the United States, 92-73, at the men's basketball preliminaries on Sunday, the first loss at the Games for the three-time defending gold medalists since 1988.
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The US men&#39;s basketball team was beaten by Argentina Friday, denying it an Olympic gold medal for the first time since 1992 when NBA players started competing.
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Argentina reached the Davis Cup final   for the second time when victory in the doubles gave them an   unassailable 3-0 lead over Australia in Buenos Aires on   Saturday.
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Missing most of its top players, the United States got spanked in its Copa America opener. Hernan Crespo scored twice, Pablo Aimar and Carlos Tevez added late goals and Argentina routed a youthful United States team 4-1 Thursday night in South America's championship.
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Puerto Rico inflicted one of the greatest upsets in Olympic history upon the United States basketball team here with a 92-73 triumph that forever ended the Americans' aura of global invincibility.
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Team USA&#39;s 94-90 loss to Lithuania last night was not revelation, but confirmation. It reaffirmed that the erstwhile Dream Team is deeply flawed and poorly suited to international basketball; that its shooting
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Team scoring-Patch 27, Naples 51, Aviano 69, Vilseck 86. Milan and Vicenza were incomplete.
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Argentina won its first Olympic gold medal in 52 years in the soccer final Saturday, while the US women&#39;s basketball team atoned for their men&#39;s failure by storming to victory.
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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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Dwyane Wade scored 18 of his 32 points in the fourth quarter, helping the United States pull away Argentina in the third-place game at the world championship.
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The U.S. men's basketball team was  beaten by Argentina Friday, denying it an Olympic gold medal  for the first time since 1992 when NBA players started  competing.
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Dream Team no longer: The U.S. squad is learning a hard lesson in how the rest of the globe plays ball
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Puerto Rico claim a surprise 92-73 victory over the USA 'Dream Team'.
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Dwyane Wade made sure the United States didn't leave the world championships empty-handed. Wade scored 18 of his 32 points in the fourth quarter, helping the Americans pull away for a 96-81 victory over Argentina on Saturday night in the bronze medal game.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Argentina snapped the US Senior National Team&#39;s 58-game winning streak two years ago at the World Championships.