U.S. beats Japan to capture softball title
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Stacey Nuveman and Lovieanne Jung homered off nemesis Yukiko Ueno to power the United States to the World Cup of Softball title Monday night with a 5-2 victory over Japan.
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SAITAMA, Japan  - European champions Greece   shocked odds-on favorites the United States 101-95 to reach the   final of the world basketball championship on Friday.
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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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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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The U.S. won their sixth successive   women's world championship with a 3-0 victory over Japan on   Tuesday, bringing to an end the first test event for the 2008   Olympics in Beijing.
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The US women&#39;s softball team has finished a dominating performance at the Olympics by capturing the gold medal. The Americans had little trouble with Australia in the final Monday, cruising to a 5-1 victory.
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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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The United States beat world champions Germany 2-1 in a fierce struggle Monday to reach the final of the Olympic women&#39;s soccer tournament.
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Japan won bronze in Olympic baseball Wednesday with an 11-2 drubbing of Canada, but it was a bittersweet victory after high hopes of a gold with their &quot;Dream Team&quot; of pro players.
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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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Japan's Yukiko Ueno pitched the first  perfect game in Olympics history in a 2-0 softball win over  China Friday.
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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.
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Lori Harrigan allows only a first-inning bunt single and Crystl Bustos homers Tuesday as the U.S. softball team posts its fourth straight shutout, 4-0, over China.
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Dalton Carriker hits a walk-off homer in the eighth inning to give Georgia a 3-2 win over Tokyo in the Little League World Series title game.
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The US softball team, unbeaten, unscored upon and almost unbelievable, rolled to its eighth consecutive shutout Sunday, 5-0 over Australia, and into the gold-medal game.
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Japan revived memories of their glorious  gymnastics past when they upstaged favorites China and the  United States to snatch the Olympic men's team gold for the  first time in 28 years Monday.
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When Australia scored a token run in the fifth inning of the gold medal game Monday at the Olympic Softball Stadium, it was the first scored here against the US - in the ninth and final game