myespn.go.com - 8/24/2008
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Olympic glory. Team USA is going for it. Spain is going for it. And I'm going for it. The game is at the kind of hour (if I'm reading that schedule correctly, it starts at 2:30 a.m. ET) that makes you think Olympic organizers just don't care if America ever sees another live basketball game. But that won't stop me. I will not be recording the game and watching it at a human hour. Oh no. I'll ...
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Skip Pass - Get Your Asses to Church Edition (8/24/08)
World Hoops Blog —
... for the CSKA Moscow post. It's up on Ball Hype's NBA front page. Feeling the love, guys. But still, when you see a typo, holler at me. All right, coach's speech is over. Rillie , you're running the point, Mookie , you're covering that ogre looking dude wearing the Lambeer throwback. It's time for the Skip Pass. :: Coverage of the USA v Spain Gold Medal Game, AKA: Match of the Year Candidate Redux FIBA: Box score BDL: Live Blog (archive) True Hoop: Go for the Gold: Liveblogging the Redeem Team's Final Act Interbasket: Watch USA ...
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Team USA-Spain Gold Medal Game Preview
20secondtimeout.blogspot.com 8/23/2008 — The gold medal game will be a clash between 2006 FIBA World Champion Spain and Team USA, which is the number one ranked FIBA team; I don't know exactly how Team USA earned a number one ranking despite not winning a gold medal in a major FIBA event since 2000 but in light of their dominance thus far in the Olympics that certainly looks like the correct call.
Wake up call: Gold Medalist Chris Paul —
Old Gold & Blog
In what turned out to be a very exciting game, the USA defeated Spain in the gold medal basketball final, 118-107. In the process, Wake Forest standout Chris Paul secured himself a gold medal and place in olympic history. Paul contributed 13 points and 5 assists in 24 minutes of play, and the coaches looked to him to control the flow of the game and manage the ball when the game was on the ...
Thanks to Spain and USA for a great basketball game —
Ball in Europe - European Basketball Blog
So the Redeem Team won the gold medal in Beijing. What in the end looked like no surprise must actually be considered a deserved win by the best team of the tournament: Nothing more and nothing less. The final game showed that the gap between the USA and the rest of the world is not widening again, but that USA needs to prepare and bring their best players in order to beat a Spanish team by ...
USA Beats Australia in Olympic Basketball, Lisa Leslie Wins Fourth Gold Medal —
FanHouse
Team USA won its fourth consecutive women's basketball gold medal today in Beijing, defeating Australia 92-65 in the final game of the tournament. The victory makes Lisa Leslie the second four-time Olympic gold medalist in basketball. She finishes her Olympic career as the all-time leader in points, rebounds and blocked shots, and Team USA went 32-0 in four Olympic Games with Leslie on the ...
2008 Olympic Basketball: Quarterfinal Games and Lingering Questions —
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Quarterfinal 1: Spain vs. Croatia Quarterfinal 2: Lithuania vs. China Quarterfinal 3: Argentina vs. Greece Quarterfinal 4: USA vs. Australia Lingering Questions 1. This one came up during USA vs. Germany today. Did the Chinese tank their final game in the preliminaries to avoid possible early match ups against Argentina and the USA? Couple of interesting factors in ...
