Wake-Up Call for Dream Team: U.S. Routed in Olympic Opener
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In an arena filled with fans cheering its demise, the U.S. men's basketball team continued to give ground in the game its country invented, losing to Puerto Rico.
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The days of U.S. domination of the  Olympic basketball tournament are over and so, it appears, is  the fans' love affair with the American Dream Team.
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The United States finally showed signs  of coming together as a team but still needed a late surge to  beat Australia 89-79 in the men's Olympic basketball tournament  on Thursday.
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ATHENS -- The Olympic basketball competition began 12 days ago. Yesterday, the United States men finally showed up.
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Bronze is better than nothing. That's one Olympic lesson the U.S. men's basketball team was able to understand. The Americans took the third-place game seriously Saturday night, earning some revenge and salvaging some self-respect in a 104-96 victory over Lithuania. Although they didn't get what they wanted in Athens, they didn't embarrass themselves in their finale, either.
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Eight years ago, Team USA captured the inaugural World Cup of Hockey behind the brilliant goaltending of Mike Richter. Last night, the squad began its defense of that crown at the Bell Centre in Montreal, and although Robert Esche was sensational in making 30 saves, the Americans came up short to Team Canada, 2-1, in the round-robin opener.
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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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Abby Wambach will never score an easier goal. From one foot away, she tapped the ball into the net and put the United States into the Olympic semifinals. Wambach finished a four-on-zero breakaway in the 59th minute, her 17th goal in her last 18 games, giving the U.S. women's soccer team a 2-1 quarterfinal victory over Japan on Friday.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece -- Abby Wambach will never score an easier goal. From 1 foot away, she tapped the ball into the net and put the United States into the Olympic semifinals.
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The United States finally showed signs  of coming together as a team but still needed a late surge to  beat Australia 89-79 in the men's Olympic basketball tournament  Thursday.
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Seriously challenged for the first time in these Olympics, the U.S. women's basketball team fought through foul problems and long stretches of frigid shooting to clinch first place in its preliminary group with a 71-58 victory over Spain on Friday.
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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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The United States hit its stride just in time to avoid elimination from the World Cup of Hockey. Facing the same Russian team that dominated them five nights earlier, the Americans got four goals and an assist from Keith Tkachuk in a 5-3 quarterfinal victory Tuesday night.
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After last year's world championships, the United States knew it needed better shooters, stronger defenders, and more experienced players. That last one cost Kevin Durant. The Seattle rookie was one of two players cut Monday night as the Americans got down to the 12-player limit for the Olympic qualifying tournament that begins Wednesday.
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South Korea took an early lead, so did the Czech Republic. Hey, even New Zealand had the US women&#39;s basketball team down for a while.
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In past Olympics, defeating a mediocre team such as Greece by a mere six points would be cause for alarm for the United States.
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With Jeremy Wariner leading the way, the United States pulled off the first medal sweep of the Olympics Monday night in the 400-meter run.