Softball: An American steamroller
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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 amount of softball talent in the Washington region has risen dramatically in the past decade and the University of Maryland is finally starting to notice.
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The United States won the gold medal in  softball Monday, beating Australia 5-1 on two home runs from  Crystl Bustos and masterful pitching from Lisa Fernandez.
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If they could have made the shutout last just one more inning, the unbeatable American softball team would have wound up with not only a third straight gold medal, but a feat that years from now will seem mythological.
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The Burlington Fun League, which is where Scott "Nomar" FitzGerald is the all-time home run champion, is the huggable mongrel of all summer softball leagues. Any guy in town over 30 years old is eligible to play, but even that basic rule gets stretched thinner than a politician's promise if, say, a young and spry townie shows the ability to ...
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ATHENS, Greece - Right now, the Americans aren't just a Dream Team - they're more like the Perfect Team. Lisa Fernandez pitched a three-hitter Sunday and Crystl Bustos drove in two runs as the Americans rolled to their eighth shutout in eight days, 5-0 over Australia, putting them into the gold medal game...
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The top half of the first inning passed with deceptive speed and ease. Three minutes. Eight pitches. It was quick and efficient even by Tim Wakefield standards. But as with all things pertaining to the knuckleball, fortunes also change in a hurry; some might say they rise and fall with the wind. So, without any warning, an auspicious start quickly ...
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You often see thoroughbred horses do it. Baseball teams have jumped out ahead in the standings and stayed there all the way through to a World Series victory.
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New data gives a peek into how the players are posed to do.
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The US softball team completed its scorched-earth run through the Olympics on Monday with a 5-1 win over Australia, America&#39;s third straight gold medal.
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For one glorious summer, Mark McGwire was bigger than baseball itself. America stopped to watch each time he came to the plate, and cheered every time he sent a ball into orbit. He could do no wrong, it seemed. Surely he would be a shoo-in for the Hall of Fame someday.
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Fourteen months after giving birth to her first child, Jennie Finch threw a three-hitter yesterday in her longest outing of the year as the United States advanced to the championship game of the World Cup of Softball with a 7-0 victory against Canada in Oklahoma City.Finch (1-0) struck out eight in six innings and extended her scoreless streak to 19 1/3 innings.âI havenât felt this good in a long time,â said Finch, whose son, Ace, was born in May 2006. âItâs been a long year of hard work in the weight room and on the field trying to get back.âThe United States (5-0) was the only team to make it through round-robin play undefeated. Canada still retained some hope of reaching the championship game but would need help from Japan (3-1), which was to play a late game last night against China (2-2).
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ATHENS, Greece - One more victory and U.S. softball team will have its goal: a third Olympic gold...
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Heroics and heartbreaks, diving catches and basepath blunders, hot bats and bizarre slumps, rainy days and endless nights. Already an instant classic, a short story transformed into a great American League
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Julian Tavarez&#39;s 2-2 slider to Carlos Beltran was theoretically a good pitch Sunday afternoon. It was low, outside and traveling 81 miles per hour.
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ATHENS The American softball team won its third straight gold medal with a nearly unblemished run through the Olympics, capped by a 5-1 victory Monday over Australia.
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The U.S. softball team wins its third straight gold medal with an unprecedented and nearly unblemished romp through the Olympics, capped by a 5-1 victory Monday over Australia.