US Women's NBA stars get the message - gold or failure
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Hours before the United States women's basketball Dream Team routed Greece 102-72 to reach the Olympic semi-finals, US captain Dawn Staley gathered the squad to make sure they knew the stakes.
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The United States won the women's  basketball gold medal at the Olympics on Saturday.
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US gymnasts Carly Patterson and Courtney Kupets will be bidding for medals again tonight when they compete in the women's all-around. No American woman has won Olympic gold in this event since Mary Lou Retton did it at the boycotted 1984 Games.
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CHICAGO -- Sometimes a first-quarter pep talk, a halftime speech, a postgame rant speaks volumes. Even in the NBA, where all that really counts is what takes place on the court, a few well-chosen, well-timed words can be particularly revealing. Those words can show how a player or coach truly feels about his team. That was the case during the ...
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Americans in general and American NBA fans in particular will never, ever understand the frenzy that drives the league's international players to play for their national teams in the offseason. As one NBA official put it last week, the ongoing European Championships in Spain are a bigger deal to many of the players in the tournament than the Olympics. And ...
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The Americans are going for the gold &#151; in gold. The U.S. women's team unveiled its jerseys for the upcoming World Cup, and the look certainly is distinctive. The primary jersey is gold, with red, white and blue trimming.
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When the NBA began sending its players to the Olympics in 1992, one of the league&#39;s goals was to spread basketball around the globe. Clearly, the idea worked.
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If the global marketing miracle known as the NBA has finally come to face the fragile rapport it has with its core audience at home in the United States, let it be said that the Palace of
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Moments after the women&#39;s Olympic 100-meter final last night, US sprinter Lauryn Williams looked up at the giant scoreboard in Olympic Stadium and saw an inspiring image, captured
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ATHENS, Greece - Sometimes you win silver, and sometimes you lose gold. Tuesday night in an Olympic Indoor Hall that was, for a change, more full than empty, the US Olympic Women&#39;s Gymnastics Team did the latter.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The American women&#39;s gymnasts were in contention for the team gold medal Tuesday night, needing a big finish to beat the Romanians. Courtney Kupets, who had to be replaced on the balance beam because of a pulled hamstring, decided to ...
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ATHENS -- For a team that hasn't lost an important international game in a decade, the United States women are fast becoming what we all thought the US men would be -- undisputed worldbeaters.
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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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Heraklio, Greece (Sports Network) - The old faces of US women&#39;s soccer bid adieu, while the new faces introduced themselves in a gold-medal winning effort at the Athens Olympics on Thursday night at Karaiskaki Stadium.
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A confident American team enters the playoff rounds of the World Basketball Championship on an impressive run but some familiar faces are blocking the US path to reclaiming the global throne.
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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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The US 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.