Cuba beats Australia for baseball gold
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Cuba won its third Olympic baseball gold medal by beating Australia 6-2 in the final Wednesday night.
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On my desk, as a reminder of baseball's biggest trend, sits the hat of the team that could claim it was world champ this year. The cap does not say "St. Louis." It reads "Japan," the country that beat Cuba to win the World Baseball Classic in March. The United States? With Roger Clemens and Alex...
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ATHENS, Aug 27: Australia won the Olympic men&#39;s hockey tournament for the first time in history on Friday, beating the Netherlands 2-1 with a golden goal.
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Cuba put seven of its eight boxers into this weekend&#39;s Olympic boxing finals and has an opportunity to equal the seven boxing golds it won in the
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Candace Parker scored 21 points and Katie Smith added two late 3-pointers to help the United States hold off Cuba, 85-79, in their opening game at the FIBA Americas tournament yesterday.
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The U.S.' collection of college baseball players top Brazil and Mexico on Wednesday to set up a gold medal game against Cuba.
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esilient Russia is going to another gold-medal game in women&#39;s volleyball, and it will take on China, which ended Cuba&#39;s streak of three straight Olympic championships.
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Lisa Fernandez pitches a three-hitter Sunday and as the Americans roll to their eighth shutout in eight days, 5-0 over Australia, putting them into the gold medal game.
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Japan's own baseball "Dream Team"  hammered arch-rivals Cuba 6-3 and set themselves up as  favorites for gold in the Athens Olympics Tuesday.
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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...
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ATHENS The United States women&#39;s team completed an almost flawless romp through the Olympics, winning the gold medal with a 5-1 victory over Australia - another dominant performance by the best softball team America has ever built.
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Reynier Alcantara scored in the 78th minute &#151; his second goal in as many games &#151; and Cuba survived a late penalty attempt for a 2-2 draw with Panama on Sunday, keeping alive its hopes of advancing at the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
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Argentina have comfortably beaten nine-man Paraguay 1-0 in the final of the men&#39;s soccer tournament to win their first Olympic gold medal in 52 years.
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THE US has won the Olympic bronze medal in the women&#39;s water polo, holding off a spirited second-half fightback by Australia. The Americans led 4-0 at halftime, but the reigning world champion Australians
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The Netherlands and Australia both won semifinal contests in men&#39;s field hockey Wednesday and will meet on Friday in the gold medal match.
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Michael Phelps wins more golds in Athens than Holland, New Zealand, Spain and Canada.
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Cuba beat the United States, 3-1, yesterday in Rio de Janeiro to secure its 10th consecutive baseball title at the Pan American Games.