Straight-Shooting Dream Team Downs Spain
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ATHENS, Greece - Larry Brown was right. The Americans did start hitting their jump shots, and suddenly they look as if they might be the team to beat at the Athens Games...
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This Spanish team attacks with Brazilian flair, defends with Italian grit and works as hard as the Germans. Spain is emerging as a serious candidate for the World Cup title after rebounding from a goal down to beat Tunisia 3-1 Monday night.
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The unbeaten U.S. women's basketball  team had their sternest test of the Olympic tournament so far  Friday, needing an eight-point run in the third quarter to pull  away and beat Spain 71-58.
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Vassilis Spanoulis hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer yesterday to lead Greece past Croatia, 81-78, at the European Championship in Madrid.In other games, JosÃ© Calderon scored 17 points to lift Spain past Russia, 81-69, and into the quarterfinals, and Joao Gomes had 23 points and 11 rebounds to help Portugal beat Israel, 94-85.With the score 78-78, Spanoulis, the a Houston Rockets guard, dribbled the length of the court and made a wide-open shot from nearly three feet behind the line.
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Spain won its first world championship without its star. With injured Pau Gasol cheering his teammates from the bench, Spain beat Greece 70-47 Sunday night in an emotional victory some thought couldn't happen and few thought would be so easy.
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Memphis Grizzlies&#39; Pau Gasol, Spain, right, shoots over New York Knicks&#39; Kurt Thomas, center and Jerome Williams during the third quarter Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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Stephon Marbury scores 31 points, and the U.S. finally finds its range in a 102-94 victory against Spain in the quarterfinals.
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ATHENS, Greece - The U.S. women's basketball team got just what it wanted against Spain - a victory and a test...
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Spain took the lead in the third round of World Cup golf Saturday, with Sergio Garcia and Miguel Angel Jimenez combining for an 11-under-par 61 to pull one shot ahead of England.
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England lose for the first time at home under Steve McClaren as an Andres Iniesta goal gives Spain victory at Old Trafford.
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Spain has taken the lead at the World Golf Championships in Seville with Sergio Garcia and Miguel Angel Jimenez combining for an 11-under-par 61 in the third round to pull one shot ahead of England.
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When a day of drama had ended and the quarterfinal pairings were set, the news was not great for the United States. In order to get to the semifinals and possibly the gold medal game, first the Americans will have to defeat Spain &#151; the team that left the widest wake of impressed and defeated opponents during the preliminary round.
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The U.S. and Spanish coaches had to be  separated when an argument erupted at the end of the game as  the United States beat Spain 102-94 in the Olympic men's  basketball quarterfinals Thursday.
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he United States women&#39;s basketball team got what it wanted against Spain - a victory and a test. Challenged for the first time in these Olympics, the United States fought through foul
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With five NBA players on the roster, the Spanish national team is the dominant story at the European basketball championship.
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The insouciance of youth in the bounding, bustling and hugely talented shape of Rafael Nadal secured Spain a seemingly impregnable 2-0 lead over the US on the opening day of the Davis Cup final.
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A sublime goal from Barcelona's Andres Iniesta settled an encounter that was anything but in Spain's favour as another insipid England performance added to the pressure on their manager Steve McClaren.