US barely gets by Greece following a loss to Puerto Rico
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The American men&#39;s basketball team bounced back from a defeat by Puerto Rico to beat Greece 77-71 Tuesday while Lithuania, China and Australia were among the other winners.
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ATHENS -- Seeing was admiring. &quot;Puerto Rico played as a team,&quot; said US coach Larry Brown. &quot;They were well-prepared and the coaching was incredible. They played so much harder than we did, and so the result was not a surprise. I think anybody watching this, who enjoys basketball, got a thrill out of that.&quot;
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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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The United States was unable to rally from a four-goal deficit and lost 5-3 to Belarus in pool play of the International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Hockey Championship on Wednesday night, the Americans&#39; first loss since in the tournament in two
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SAITAMA, Japan  - The United States nonchalantly   swept aside Germany to set up a semi-final showdown with Greece   at the world basketball championship on Wednesday.
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ATHENS -- The place was ready for a party. Prohibitive underdog Greece had its fans waving the blue-and-white flag and chanting &quot;Hellas&quot; at every opportunity when they weren't booing the United States.
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ATHENS, Greece - In an upset as historic as it was inevitable, Tim Duncan, Allen Iverson and the rest of the U.S. basketball team lost 92-73 to Puerto Rico on Sunday, only the third Olympic defeat ever for the Americans and first since adding pros...
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ATHENS, Greece - Spain, Puerto Rico and Argentina are in the Olympic men&#39;s basketball quarterfinals. The United States is trying to get there.
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The United States lost their first  basketball match at the Olympics since 1988 on Sunday when  Puerto Rico handed them a shock 92-73 trouncing.
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A struggling United States basketball team coming off two narrow escapes and a epic loss faces its toughest Olympic test yet Saturday against unbeaten Lithuania, which is playing like the team to beat for gold.
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ATHENS, Greece - Lamar Odom made a key defensive play on Greece's Dimitris Pipanikoulaou, preventing him from getting a clean layup attempt that could have cut the United States' lead to two points, and the Americans won 77-71 Tuesday night in the second round of the Olympic men's basketball tournament.    In a much closer game than expected, the Americans bounced back from their embarrassing loss to Puerto Rico in their opener and avoided dropping to 0-2, which would have matched their loss total from the previous 68 years...
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Australia&#39;s hopes of an Olympic Games men&#39;s basketball quarter-final berth slumped with a heart-breaking 87-82 loss to Puerto Rico.
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ATHENS, Greece - They missed shots, threw the ball away and got beat on defense. In the end, though, Shannon Johnson and Tina Thompson helped the Americans pull out another gold-medal victory...
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ATHENS, Greece - The United States men's basketball team endured another brutal loss Saturday night. But because Angola is playing even worse than the Americans, they're in the quarterfinals of the Athens Games...
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The United States emphatically reasserted its dominance over Puerto Rico. Coming soon: a chance to reclaim its old spot on top of the basketball world.
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ATHENS, Greece -- I didn&#39;t need to see Puerto Rico rout the United States to know that the world is playing great basketball, didn&#39;t need to see the United States shoot 35 percent to know that the youngest team we&#39;ve ever sent to the Olympics has no ...
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Stymied by a sloppy handoff in the middle of the race, the United States lost to Great Britain by a hundredth of a second Saturday night in the 400-meter relay &#151; a race the American men usually dominate.