Americans playing it cool in the pool
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ATHENS  Michael Phelps might receive his last gold medal of the Athens Olympics in a way no one would envision.
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ATHENS - As the final leg of the men&#39;s 4 x 200 freestyle relay began last night at the Olympic pool, the United States held a lead of at least 1 1/2 body lengths - which, considering the final 200 meters was being swum by 6-foot-6 Klete ...
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ATHENS, GREECE - It is a measure of revenge, but no one would dare claim it as anywhere near equal. The United States&#39; victory over Australia in water polo Thursday earned the US a bronze medal, but it wasn
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MINNESOTA, US -- Russia defeated the United States 3-1 in North American Pool play at the World Cup of Hockey in St Paul, Minnesota.
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ATHENS  Michael Phelps certainly will not beat Mark Spitz&#39;s record seven Olympic swimming gold medals in Munich in 1972, but the American youngster is still racking up the gold in Athens.
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CARSON, Calif. -- The US soccer team keeps on winning, even though the Americans are not impressing.
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ATHENS, Greece  Their own country has a hard time celebrating a silver medal. If it isn&#39;t gold, it&#39;s symbolic of second place or third place, and that&#39;s just not the American way when it comes to the Olympic Games.
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Blog: The PCS 2 uses attic heat to warm the pool.
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US basketball once stood in the same Olympic pantheon as Cuban boxing and Chinese table tennis. From basketball&#39;s inclusion in the Games in 1936 until this summer, the United States
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Now this was a duel in the pool. With Michael Phelps leading off Tuesday night, the United States bested its top rival in the most thrilling race of the Athens Games. Klete Keller held off Ian Thorpe and finished the Australians with a lunge for the wall that gave the Americans a gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle relay. The margin was only 13-hundredths of a second.
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An 'elite' sport tries to pump up participation by appealing to a workout-mad America.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- American gold medalist Michael Phelps easily made it through his preliminary heat Thursday as the World Swimming Championships began Thursday in Indianapolis&#39; Conseco Fieldhouse.
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The 2004 Olympic games in Athens, Greece, have been attracting a growing worldwide audience since they began August 13. Particularly attentive have been Greek-Americans.
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Give the USA basketball team a break. After all, these are the nice guys, the ones who came. There are a lot of other players who couldn&#39;t find time in their busy summer schedules for the Olympics. And you know what? The Americans may yet ...
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The Americans have the big names. The Europeans have the luck of the Irish.
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The Americans got off to a near-perfect start yesterday in the Presidents Cup, getting superb play from veterans and rookies alike in winning five and a half points out of the six alternate-shot matches at Royal Montreal. Despite a leader board covered with American red numbers, perhaps the most poignant moment of a gray afternoon was Jack Nicklaus, the United States captain, instructing Phil Mickelson and Woody Austin to concede a three-and-a-half-foot par putt on the 18th hole that assured Mike Weir of Canada and his International team its only point of the opening session.It was typical of Nicklaus, who famously conceded a putt about the same distance to Tony Jacklin in the 1969 Ryder Cup that allowed those matches to end in a tie. That gesture became a symbol of sportsmanship in match play between countries and continents. Then again, this was only the first day, and it was clear the Americans were in charge.
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ATHENS, Greece - On a night Americans dominated at the Olympic pool, Aaron Peirsol's disputed victory in the 200-meter backstroke was the most memorable - and convoluted. First, he was disqualified for making an illegal turn...