Basketball: US coach right behind team
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Their character questioned and commitment belittled, the United States men&#39;s team responded to their critics by taking the bronze with a gold-medal effort.
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The US Olympics basketball team took a trip back to its former days of dominance Monday, and it was only appropriate the opponent was Angola.
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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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Last week in an interview with the New York Times, US men&#39;s coach Bruce Arena took pot shots at almost everyone involved in American soccer.
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The Americans play defense vs. Greece, but outside shooting still suspect going into Aussie game. Allen Iverson, nursing a broken thumb, lead the US with 17 points in a 77-71 victory over Greece yesterday.
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By Michael Chow, USA TODAY. The United States men&#39;s basketball team Saturday kept its streak alive of having won a medal in every Olympic basketball competition in which it has competed
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This was supposed to be the first real test for Uncle Sam's lads. Unfortunately for the beleagured United States men's basketball team, tonight's game with Lithuania will be the fourth test in four games. It's been that kind of tournament for the Yanks.
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Hours before the United States women's basketball Dream Team routed Greece 102-72 to reach the Olympic semi-finals, US captain Dawn Staley gathered the squad to make sure they knew the stakes.
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Alkis Panagoulias says he firmly believes that the United States team needs an American coach, or at least someone who currently works in Major League Soccer.
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Isiah Thomas wasnât the only coach at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night putting a personal agenda ahead of his team. Nuggets Coach George Karl shares the blame.
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ATHENS - The US men have a basketball medal, but there is little consolation in the prize. Third place fell a couple of steps short of expectations, but the Americans had nowhere else to go Saturday in what
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The Los Angeles Lakers added four assistants to the staff of new coach Rudy Tomjanovich on Friday. Tomjanovich retained Frank Hamblen, who spent the five seasons as an assistant to former coach Phil Jackson
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - The United States has grabbed a 49-44 lead over Lithuania at the half of their bronze medal game at the Olympics.
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Folks back in the United States are searching for an explanation to their basketball team&#39;s misfortunes.
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The Sporting News - The race for the top of the Power Poll isn't the only one exciting the masses these days. There's quite a battle going on to see who will coach the Western Conference All-Stars. The honor -- or obligation, depending upon your perspective -- goes to the coach of the team with the best record through the games of February 3 (though the Suns' Mike D'Antoni is ineligible because he coached the West last year). Because of the Celtics' runaway lead in the East, Doc Rivers already has wrapped up that gig.
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ATHENS - LeBron James and Tim Duncan sparked a fourth-quarter rally to lead the beleaguered US men&#39;s basketball team to an 89-79 win over Australia yesterday at the Helliniko Indoor Arena, but once again the Americans had to come from ...
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United States Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati did not get the coach he wanted. So, Gulati went to Plan B yesterday, naming Chivas USA's Bob Bradley interim coach of the US national team.