Lithuanians face US NBA stars in Olympic basketball showdown
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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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US basketball once stood in the same Olympic pantheon as Cuban boxing and Chinese table tennis. From basketball&#39;s inclusion in the Games in 1936 until this summer, the United States
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End of American basketball supremacy. Argentina 89, US 81. Semifinal loss means NBA stars will play for bronze. &quot;We tried as hard as we could,&quot; US Dream Team member Allen Iverson said after loss.
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The NBA all-stars finally got their act together to edge out Spain in a close fought quarter final. The US team finally got its act together today to beat Spain in a tense, close-fought and ultimately acrimonious quarter-final in Athens.
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ATHENS, Greece - Redemption came from the perfect spot - the 3-point line - for Sarunas Jasikevicius. The Lithuanian guard, whose off-target 3-pointer kept his team from pulling off the biggest upset of the Sydney Olympics, didn't miss when it counted Saturday night against the Americans in a thrilling 94-90 victory...
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The United States and Argentina will go after each other again in the Olympic men&#39;s basketball semifinals, and if their latest performances carry over, it&#39;ll be difficult for the South American rivals to win.
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When it came to the real crunch the NBA stars of the United States basketball team showed their mettle and progressed to the semifinals of the Olympics with a 102-94 win over unbeaten Spain.
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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, Greece - The United States and Argentina will go after each other again in the Olympic men's basketball semifinals, and if their latest performances carry over, it'll be difficult for the South American rivals to win.    The game is scheduled for a 1 p.m...
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The Olympics have produced many terrific showdowns through the years. Nancy Kerrigan vs. Tonya Harding . Rulon Gardner vs. Alexander Karelin . Michael Phelps vs. Ian Thorpe . Now comes one that will knock the glasses right off the top of Bud Greenspan's head.
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Three Olympic medalists and a world champion will be at Boston University's Agganis Arena today for the US Figure Skating Challenge.
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Lithuania have completed an undefeated run through Olympic men&#39;s basketball preliminary rounds with a 100-85 triumph over Australia.
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It has come to this: Good thing we're in the easy bracket. The United States men's basketball team is in Pool B, along with Greece, Australia, Lithuania, Angola, and, of course, Puerto Rico, the feisty little brother who enjoyed a pretty big laugh at the expense of Uncle Sam's boys Sunday night. Most of the serious teams are ...
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ATHENS, Greece - Now this was a duel in the pool. With Michael Phelps leading off Tuesday night, the United States bested its top rival in the most thrilling race of the Athens Games...
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ATHENS, Greece - Now this was a duel in the pool. With Michael Phelps leading off Tuesday night, the United States bested its rival from Down Under in the most thrilling race of the Athens Games...
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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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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 ...