US softball team is golden again
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ATHENS The American softball team won its third straight gold medal with a nearly unblemished run through the Olympics, capped by a 5-1 victory Monday over Australia.
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Matched up against each other on softball&#39;s biggest stage, the head coaches from the United States and Australia faced tough pitching decisions Monday.
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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, Greece - They are America's newest golden girls - powerful and just a shade from perfection. The U.S...
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The U.S. women took their third  consecutive gold medal in Olympic basketball Saturday, breaking  open a close game in the fourth quarter to beat Australia  74-63.
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ATHENS, Greece - At first glance, it would seem to be the perfect matchup - 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...
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It has won three straight Olympic gold medals and two of the last three World Championships. In the last six major international competitions, the United States women's basketball team has played 51 games - and won 50 of them. That one loss, however, necessitated yesterday's gathering for practice at Mohegan Sun Arena for tonight's exhibition against Australia ...
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Cat Osterman pitches a two-hit complete game and strikes out nine, lifting the United States past China, 2-0, at the softball world championship in Beijing.
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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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A few US women&#39;s soccer players scooped up small pieces of sod at Karaiskaki Stadium after their emotional gold-medal victory last week.
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ATHENS - From Athens to Crete, American women dominated the spotlight Monday at the 2004 Summer Games. The US women&#39;s softball team completed an overpowering run to the gold medal, by pounding Australia 5-1 in Athens.
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If they could have made the shutout last just one more inning, the unbeatable American softball team would have wound up with not only a third straight gold medal, but a feat that years from now will seem mythological.
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ATHENS -- After Australia beat the United States softball team in a preliminary-round game four years ago on a walk-off homer, American ace Lisa Fernandez received a card from the Aussie team with the message, &quot;Lisa, we got your number.&quot;
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The U.S. offense was already scoring big long before Crystl Bustos&#039; long ball. She just put the finishing touches on another dominant showing by the Americans. Bustos homered and drove in five runs as the United States jumped on China for a 10-run first inning in a 14-0 win Saturday night at the World Cup of Softball.
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They are America's newest golden girls &#151; powerful and just a shade from perfection. The U.S. softball team won its third straight gold medal with an unprecedented and nearly unblemished romp through the Olympics, capped by a 5-1 victory Monday over an Australian team that, like the rest of softball's elite, never had a chance.
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STUTTGART, Germany  - The United States dazzled on the floor and vault to win the women's team gold at the world gymnastics championships on Wednesday.
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Jennie Finch had her Ace. And now, the U.S. softball team has its ace back at full strength.