US hoops not feared anymore
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ATHENS, Greece - By the end of the Olympic basketball tournament&#39;s first week, the shock of the United States&#39; opening-game loss to Puerto Rico was wearing off.
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Athens -- The venues didn&#39;t fall down. The terrorists were kept at bay. The US Olympians waved the flag anyway, and nobody got hurt.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The US men&#39;s basketball team kept its medal streak at the Summer Olympics intact with a bronze in a 104-96 victory over Lithuania Saturday night.
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Same starting lineup, same subs, same tactics. The U.S. basketball team may be an unimpressive 1-1 in the Olympic tournament, but coach Larry Brown won't do any tinkering for Thursday's game against Australia.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The USA basketball team restored pride after its loss to Puerto Rico to beat hosts Greece 77-71 in a thrilling pool match on Tuesday night, with NBA star Allen Iverson scoring 17 points despite a broken thumb. .
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The US men&#39;s basketball team were once again in danger of defeat at the Olympic tournament on Thursday, trailing Australia 51-47 at the end of the first half.
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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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The dirty little secret about this US men&#39;s basketball team is that it has played harder than any team in the Olympics and has been superior at doing anything that required plain old-fashioned effort.
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The United States basketball team are through to the Olympic semi-finals after a 102-94 victory over Spain. The &#39;Dream Team&#39; had a one-point lead after the first-half then pulled away in the last quarter, but Spain always posed a threat.
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Dream Team no longer: The U.S. squad is learning a hard lesson in how the rest of the globe plays ball
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ATHENS - Bronze is better than nothing. That&#39;s one Olympic lesson the US men&#39;s basketball team was able to understand. The Americans took the third-place game seriously Saturday night, earning some revenge
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ATHENS, Greece Aug. 27, 2004 - The US men&#39;s basketball team will go home from the Olympics without a gold medal for the first time since it began using NBA players after the Americans were beaten soundly by Argentina 89-81 in the semifinals Friday.
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The Los Angeles Clippers are glad people can finally stop talking about their winless record on the road.
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The US men&#39;s basketball team got their first comfortable win at the Olympic basketball tournament on Tuesday, routing winless Angola 89-53 in their final preliminary round game.
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ATHENS -- They ended up on a podium with medals. Maybe not the podium they expected to mount and maybe not the color medal they came to get. But going home with a bronze beats the alternative -- going home with mostly bad memories -- and the US men's basketball team ended its frustrating Olympic run last night with a ...
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In today&#39;s NBA, it&#39;s tough to gain respect playing in the Eastern Conference. It apparently doesn&#39;t matter that the defending champs loom there.
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All that talk of the United States returning to the top of the basketball world will have to wait. The reality is that the Americans are no closer now than they were two years ago.