Golden lining greets softball
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This gold medal comes with a broken heart. This victory - as dominant as the Olympic Games have seen in years from any sport, any team, any nation - comes with a searing sense of loss.
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On the first day of the rest of her life, American Mia Hamm said she was relieved to be retiring unhurt after being the dominant women&#39;s soccer player of her generation.
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Gal Fridman closed his eyes and enjoyed a sweet sound never before heard at an Olympic Games â-he strains of Israel&#39;s national anthem playing in honor of the winner of a gold medal.
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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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Shane Warne has held aloft most of cricket&#39;s glittering prizes, but when he lifted a bruised and prematurely misshapen ball in the tremulous heat haze here yesterday it was with the deepest professional pride he had ever known.
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Players applaud baseball's new steroid agreement that calls for harsher penalties and mandates frequent and offseason testing.
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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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NORTON -- Truisms that resonated yesterday from a day of golf that could only make a true ball-striker smile:
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The losing team made the news Monday in Olympic softball&#39;s gold medal game. It scored a run. With Crystl Bustos hitting two shots that would have dented the outfield fence had
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ATHENS -- America&#39;s gold-medal soccer players don&#39;t just say goodbye; they say hello. &quot;The thing I love,&quot; retiring captain Julie Foudy said, &quot;is that Tarpley and Wambach scored.
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ATHENS -- The coach of the United States softball team had a dream the other night. As Mike Candrea explained yesterday, it has been hard enough sleeping for the last month, let alone dreaming. The dream had nothing to do with these Olympics -- and everything to do with these Olympics.
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Mike Candrea doesn&#39;t dream much these days, but a vision of sorts came to him Sunday night. Members fo the United States softball team celebrate their gold medal win over Australia.
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Jennie Finch pitched a one-hitter with eight strikeouts and Lisa Fernandez went 3-for-4 with a homer as the U.S. softball team posted their fifth straight shutout, beating Canada 7-0 on Thursday in five innings to clinch a spot in this weekend's semifinals.
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The red, white and blue U.S. softball  machine are one win away from their third straight gold medal  after rolling over Australia 5-0 in their semi-final on Sunday.
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Alfonso Soriano did a little bit of everything after his Washington teammates showed their leadoff hitter how thrilled they are that he's sticking around.
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Athens -- Take it from her roommate, Lovieanne Jung isn&#39;t just going to give up. Jung&#39;s 17-pitch at-bat -- 13 fouls, four balls and one significant assist from the sun -- exemplified the patience it took for the US softball team to get by Japan 3-0 in ...
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The US softball team won its third straight gold medal with an unprecedented and almost unblemished romp through the Olympics, capped by a 5-1 title victory on Monday over an Australian team that never had a chance.