US routs Angola and now aims for Spain
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ATHENS -- Well, they're entitled to least one blowout, aren't they? The US men's basketball team, which had played four tough games entering yesterday's preliminary round closer, got a much-needed lift with the arrival of Angola on the schedule. The result was a predictable thumping, 89-53, even if we've seen that nothing is predictable with this team or in this ...
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CHARLESTON (South Carolina): The United States closed out a 4-0 Davis Cup World Group semi-final victory over Belarus on Sunday and started looking toward the final in Spain in December.
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Spain will host the United States on clay in Seville in the Davis Cup tennis finals December 3 to 5 as the Spaniards seek to win the trophy for the second time ever.
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The U.S. men's basketball team gets a taste of what it was like in the good old days, routing Angola, 89-53, Monday.
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A couple of players who weren&#39;t able to crack the US lineup when the 2004 World Cup began earlier this week helped propel the Americans to victory last night.
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Spain can be backed at 1-3 (Skybet and Sporting Odds) to make home advantage count and claim their second Davis Cup title by beating the United States at the Olympic Stadium in Seville, starting on Friday.
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Carlos Moya beat Mardy Fish 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 Friday to give Spain a 1-0 lead over the United States in the Davis Cup championship matches.
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Host-Spain defeated the United States 3-2 in the best-of-five Davis Cup World Group final Sunday, to claim its second-ever championship in the men&#39;s team tennis event.
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A singles victory Sunday sent Spain into the December Davis Cup finals against the United States.
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SEVILLE, Spain  - Carlos Moya fired Spain into a  1-0 lead over the United States in the Davis Cup final on  Friday.
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The US men&#39;s basketball team got their first comfortable win at the Olympic basketball tournament Monday, routing winless Angola 89-53 in their final preliminary round game.
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Spain coach Luis Aragones told his fringe players to make his life difficult, and some of them lived up to the challenge. A Spanish squad full of substitutes beat Saudi Arabia 1-0 Friday to clinch first place in Group H. The backups tried to win a spot in the starting lineup for the round of 16 match in Hanover on Tuesday.
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Candace Parker scored 21 points and Katie Smith added two late 3-pointers to help the United States hold off Cuba, 85-79, in its opening game at the FIBA Americas tournament in Valdivia, Chile. With the score tied at 71-71 midway through the fourth quarter, Smith hit consecutive 3-pointers. After finishing third at the world championships, the United States was forced to play in the FIBA Americas tournament. Only the tournament winner earns an automatic bid to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
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The United States won both of its opening singles to move within a victory of its first appearance in the Davis Cup final since 1997, while Spain stumbled in trying to reach its third trip to the championship in five years.
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While the Spaniards remain the overwhelming favorites in the Davis Cup final versus the US on their home red soil this weekend, the Americans can keep hope alive -- the slight crack in the Spanish armor is Juan Carlos Ferrero.
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Forwards Taylor Twellman (Revolution) and Charlie Davies (Manchester, N.H.) were named yesterday to the United States roster for Copa America, which starts next week in Venezuela. The US will meet Argentina, Paraguay, and Colombia in the first round.
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Jimmy Conrad scored his first international goal and Landon Donovan converted a late breakaway, leading the United States national soccer team to a 2-0 victory over Mexico in a friendly last night that extended the Americans' dominance of their regional rival.