'Dream Team' Out of Gold Race After Loss to Argentina
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The U.S. men's basketball team was  beaten by Argentina and booed off the court by the crowd on  Friday as it was denied an Olympic gold medal for the first  time since 1992 when NBA players started competing.
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LONDON The New York Yankees missed baseball&#39;s World Series, Real Madrid won nada in soccer, and the US men&#39;s Olympic basketball squad was a dream team only for its gratified opponents.
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Australia&#39;s Olympic gold champion hockey team has pulled out of the Champions Trophy in Pakistan because of security concerns.
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Dream Team no longer: The U.S. squad is learning a hard lesson in how the rest of the globe plays ball
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Argentina defeated the United States team of National Basketball Association stars 89-81 here Friday in the Olympic semi-finals, dethroning the three-time defending champions.
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The U.S. lost to Argentina, 89-81, and will play for bronze on Saturday. It is the first time the Americans have failed to win the gold medal since 1988.
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Argentina won its first Olympic gold  medal in 52 years in the soccer final Saturday, while the U.S.  women's basketball team atoned for their men's failure by  storming to victory.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Argentina&#39;s footballers beat Paraguay 1-0 in a bad-tempered Olympic football final to give the country its first gold medal since 1952.
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The United States suffered their worst  day of the Athens Olympics on Friday when their basketball  "Dream Team" were humiliated and Marion Jones flopped, leaving  the world's top sports nation almost starved of gold medals.
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Argentina coach Marcelo Bielsa has made a surprising decision of resigning on Tuesday after he steered his country to their first Olympic soccer gold medal in Athens.
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As the Olympic Games headed into the  home straight, Argentina won their first Olympic gold medal in  more than half a century when their soccer team beat Paraguay  Saturday.
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Marcelo Bielsa has resigned as coach of Argentina less than one month after steering the national football team to their first Olympic gold medal.
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Luis Scola scored 27 points and Argentina, playing without four N.B.A. players from the team that won the gold in 2004, beat Brazil, 91-80, in the semifinals of the FIBA Americas tournament yesterday in Las Vegas to earn a berth in the Beijing Olympics.Teams that have earned berths in Beijing include Argentina; the winner of yesterdayâs United States-Puerto Rico semifinal; China, the host; Spain, the reigning world champion; and the zone champions Iran, Angola and Australia. Two European entrants will be decided this month.
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As the Olympic Games headed into the  home stretch, Argentina won its first Olympic gold medal in  more than half a century when its soccer team beat Paraguay  Saturday.
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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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The U.S. men's basketball team lost to Lithuania, 94-90, today at the Olympic Games.
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Ruben Magnano, who coached Argentina to the Olympic basketball gold medal in Athens, resigned Thursday to accept a coaching job in Italy.