U.S. Women Win Third Straight Hoops Gold
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ATHENS, Greece - The United States shook off early shooting woes and sloppy play to claim its third straight Olympic women's basketball title Saturday, a 74-63 victory over Australia. They did it by turning up the defense, crashing the boards harder in the second half and, most importantly, finding their shooting touch...
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The US women&#39;s basketball team continued its impressive play at the Olympics, pulling away from previously-unbeaten Spain for a 71-58 victory on Friday.
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ATHENS, Greece The US women&#39;s basketball team completed an eight-game run through the Athens Olympics with a 74-to-63 win over Australia.
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ATHENS, Greece - The United States led Australia 29-26 at halftime of the women's Olympic basketball final Saturday as neither team could get going offensively. The Americans, seeking their third straight gold medal, held Aussie star Lauren Jackson to just five points on 2-of-10 shooting...
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The United States softball team came  into Athens on a simple mission -- take home their third  straight gold medal or call the trip to the Olympics a failure.
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ATHENS, Greece - They missed shots, threw the ball away and got beat on defense. In the end, though, Shannon Johnson and Tina Thompson helped the Americans pull out another gold-medal victory...
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The United States womenâs national team advanced to the Gold medal match with a 2-1 win over Germany at Heraklio Stadium in the semifinal on Monday.
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ATHENS, Greece -- There were 17 seconds left, and it was finally time for the change. The US women&#39;s basketball team had clinched the Olympic gold medal Saturday for the third time in a row.
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Not sun. Not wind. Not Japan. Right now, nothing can stop the U.S. Olympic softball team. Helped by two errors, one on a ball lost in the unforgiving Mediterranean glare, the Americans scored three runs in the eighth Monday for a 3-0 win over Japan. The victory extends the U.S. team's winning streak to 73 games.
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Hushing a boisterous crowd with its all-around domination, the United States defeated Greece 102-72 Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the Olympic women's basketball tournament. The Americans, seeking their third straight gold medal, will play Russia in the semifinals Friday.
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The US softball team completed its scorched-earth run through the Olympics on Monday with a 5-1 win over Australia, America&#39;s third straight gold medal.
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At first glance, it would seem to be the perfect matchup &#151; a dream draw, if you will. All the United States has to do to claim a third straight gold medal in women's basketball on Saturday is beat Australia, which is 0-12 against U.S. teams in the Olympics and world championships.
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The United States women set themselves up as the team to beat at the world championships â and maybe next year in Beijing, too â with a razor-sharp and nearly mistake-free romp in qualifying yesterday in Stuttgart, Germany. They scored 245.025 points to take a 3.85-point lead over China.
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The Seattle Storm has defeated the Connecticut Sun 67-65 to force a decisive third game in the Women&#39;s National Basketball Association Finals.
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Duke won its third straight NCAA women's golf title Friday, and Arkansas' Stacy Lewis rallied to take the individual championship.
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The unbeaten U.S. women's basketball  team had their sternest test of the Olympic tournament so far  Friday, needing an eight point run in the third quarter to pull  away and beat Spain 71-58.
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BULLETINBC-OLY--Women's Final BKW,0040BULLETIN    ATHENS, Greece   --  The United States won the gold medal Saturday in women's basketball, beating Australia 74-63.