US soccer team needs to give Japan boot
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ATHENS -- The US women's soccer team, determined to reclaim the Olympic crown it lost to Norway in overtime in Sydney, begins the knockout stage tonight when it takes on vastly improved Japan in the quarterfinals.
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Team USA&#39;s 94-90 loss to Lithuania last night was not revelation, but confirmation. It reaffirmed that the erstwhile Dream Team is deeply flawed and poorly suited to international basketball; that its shooting
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US captain Claudio Reyna, who has been suffering with a thigh injury, was missing from Bruce Arena&#39;s 23-man squad named Friday for this month&#39;s World Cup qualifiers against El Salvador and Panama.
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GRAND FORKS, North Dakota -- And so the freefall continues for Team USA. Roughly 24 hours after losing to Belarus and missing an opportunity to clinch top spot in Group A, the United States slipped from first
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match,&#39;&#39; US captain Patrick McEnroe said. ``We&#39;re going to have to do some of. that, but we&#39;re going to have to play smart.
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The US Women&#39;s National Team did not string together a complete 90 minutes of soccer in beating Japan 2-1 in its Olympic quarterfinal on Friday, however, it was the side&#39;s finest performance of the tournament so far.
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US national team candidates expected to begin training in Los Angeles this week for the start of the final round of World Cup qualifying. Instead, the training camp has been postponed because of a contract dispute between the US Soccer Federation and the US National Soccer Team Players Association.
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American arrogance is a major culprit as to Team USA's continuing struggles in international basketball and until the U.S. stops underestimating its opponents it will continue to lose.
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Japan plans to ask the United States to  move some U.S. marine bases from its southernmost prefecture of  Okinawa to a location outside Japan, the daily Yomiuri Shimbun  said on Monday.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Twenty-four hours before the US National Team takes on the Jamaicans in their first CONCACAF World Cup qualifying semifinal round match, and the Americans were nowhere to be found.
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US captain Claudio Reyna will miss the Americans&#39; World Cup qualifiers against El Salvador and Panama because of injuries. Reyna hurt his left quadriceps Sept.
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SAITAMA, Japan  - Despite suffering a demoralizing   defeat by a brilliant Greece at the world basketball   championship, the United States are looking long-term.
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In the wake of the most humiliating opening day in American Ryder Cup history, US captain Hal Sutton figures his team needs something to stir it from the doldrums of a 6 1/2-to-1 1/2 deficit.
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England coach Brian Ashton is at a loss to explain his side's low-key performance against the USA.
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Abby Wambach will never score an easier goal. From one foot away, she tapped the ball into the net and put the United States into the Olympic semifinals. Wambach finished a four-on-zero breakaway in the 59th minute, her 17th goal in her last 18 games, giving the U.S. women's soccer team a 2-1 quarterfinal victory over Japan on Friday.
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Forget the marquee United States-Canada matchup in the World Cup of Hockey final and stop calling Team USA the defending champion.
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The lack of focus on goalkeeper Chris Seitz during the World Cup has been a relatively good thing for the United States, which has played attractive, attacking soccer, for the most part.