&#39;Dream Team&#39; Out of Gold Race After Loss to Argentina
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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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For the first time since 1988, the Olympic men&#39;s basketball gold medal will not go to the United States. Argentina beat the Americans 89-81 in semifinal action yesterday, meaning bronze is
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LONDON The New York Yankees missed baseball&#39;s World Series, Real Madrid won nada in soccer, and the US men&#39;s Olympic basketball squad was a dream team only for its gratified opponents.
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I&#39;m no longer accepting the popular - and lame - excuse that the United States men&#39;s basketball team failed to win Olympic gold because its best players didn&#39;t show up.
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ATHENS Serbia-Montenegro is shockingly out of medal contention in Olympic men&#39;s basketball, and the team&#39;s head coach doesn&#39;t have many admirers left at home.
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ATHENS, Greece - When Italian coach Pierluigi Formiconi said he&#39;d remember the last-ditch semifinal win over the United States as the real gold-medal match at the Olympics, he pretty much wrote off the Greeks.
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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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The scoop: Finally! For the first time in this championships, the team that scored first did NOT win the game. Nursing a 1-0 lead starting the third period, the USA surrendered two third-period goals and lost
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BUENOS AIRES (Argentina) - Marcelo Bielsa abruptly resigned on Tuesday as coach of Argentina&#39;s national soccer team, only weeks after leading the country to the Olympic gold medal.
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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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The United States basketball team didn&#39;t just lose to Argentina and, with it, a chance to play for the Olympic gold medal. The high-priced roster of NBA players might have lost something even more precious than that: the world&#39;s respect.
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As the Olympic Games headed into the  home stretch, Argentina won its first Olympic gold medal in  more than half a century when its soccer team beat Paraguay  Saturday.
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Winning a gold medal would ease the sting of two Olympic qualifying defeats for the United States team of NBA stars. But their path to defending the throne is a rocky one, with unbeaten Spain coming up first
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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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Favorites Argentina beat Italy 3-0  Tuesday to claim their place in the final of the Olympic Games  soccer tournament.
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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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Mali became Africa&#39;s men&#39;s only hope for an Olympic soccer medal at the Athens Games after Ghana and Morocco were knocked out of the games in men&#39;s last group matches Wednesday.