'Dream Team' Out of Gold Race After Loss to Argentina
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United States failed to reach the men's  basketball final for the first time in 16 years and Italy  shocked previously unbeaten Lithuania Friday to set up an  Olympic gold medal game that nobody expected.
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ATHENS, Greece - The United States and Argentina will go after each other again in the Olympic men's basketball semifinals, and if their latest performances carry over, it'll be difficult for the South American rivals to win.    The game is scheduled for a 1 p.m...
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In an upset as historic as it was inevitable, Tim Duncan, Allen Iverson and the rest of the U.S. basketball team lost 92-73 to Puerto Rico on Sunday, only the third Olympic defeat ever for the Americans and first since adding pros.
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Australia&#39;s hopes of an Olympic Games men&#39;s basketball quarter-final berth slumped with a heart-breaking 87-82 loss to Puerto Rico.
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ATHENS, Greece - Right now, the Americans aren't just a Dream Team - they're more like the Perfect Team. Lisa Fernandez pitched a three-hitter Sunday and Crystl Bustos drove in two runs as the Americans rolled to their eighth shutout in eight days, 5-0 over Australia, putting them into the gold-medal game against the Aussies...
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ATHENS, Greece -- Top-seeded and previously unbeaten Spain is out of the medal round in men&#39;s basketball, and the Spaniards aren&#39;t happy about it.
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End of American basketball supremacy. Argentina 89, US 81. Semifinal loss means NBA stars will play for bronze. &quot;We tried as hard as we could,&quot; US Dream Team member Allen Iverson said after loss.
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Marcelo Bielsa resigns as coach of Argentina less than a month after steering the country to Olympic gold.
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The once dominant American team has its championship dream crushed by Brazil.
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This zone qualifier looks a lot like all the others -- 1992 in Portland, 1999 and 2003 in San Juan. The United States just doesn't win -- it obliterates. And the goal of every other team this week is: Get to the medal round and avoid the Yanks at all costs.
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When a day of drama had ended and the quarterfinal pairings were set, the news was not great for the United States. In order to get to the semifinals and possibly the gold medal game, first the Americans will have to defeat Spain &#151; the team that left the widest wake of impressed and defeated opponents during the preliminary round.
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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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U.S. basketball suffered its first  Olympic defeat in 16 years on Sunday -- to Puerto Rico -- and  American swimmer Michael Phelps' dream of eight gold medals  evaporated.
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Bronze is the best the American men can do in basketball, and the reason is simple: A hastily assembled assortment of NBA stars couldn't beat a better team &#151; Argentina. Manu Ginobili scored 29 points to lead his nation to another victory over the country that used to dominate the sport, an 89-81 win in the Olympic semifinals Friday night.
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Olympic men&#39;s hockey champions Australia have pulled out of the prestigious Champions Trophy - an event for the world&#39;s top six - in Pakistan because of security concerns.
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Description: The US men&#39;s basketball team lost to Argentina Friday -- and thus will not win the gold medal. NPR&#39;s Tom Goldman reports.
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Favorites Argentina beat Italy 3-0  Tuesday to claim their place in the final of the Olympic Games  soccer tournament.