USA Wins Gold
USA Wins Gold...
The United States is back on top of the basketball world, as the US men’s basketball team earned the gold medal for the first time since 2000 with a 118-107 victory over Spain early Sunday morning. After an eight-year drought, The Redeem Team has accomplished its goal. Spain...
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USA, Spain to Fight For Gold
USA, Spain to Fight For...
Throughout the 2008 Beijing Olympic basketball games, the United States’ outings have, for the most part, had virtually the same story: a competitive first quarter, but the US controls the game from mid-to-late second quarter and on. In today’s Semifinals matchup vs....
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Team USA Advances to Semifinals
Team USA Advances to Se...
Team USA Basketball opened up medal round play early Wednesday morning, as they squared off with Quarterfinal matchup Australia. The United States played down to Australia’s game plan throughout the first quarter. After the United States got off to a fast 15-6 start, Australia...
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Team USA: Why It’s Lost and Why It’ll Win This Year
Team USA: Why It’...
Finally! After eight years of mediocre play by the American basketball teams, the USA is poised to win a major international competition. The 2008 US men’s senior national team, nicknamed the “Redeem Team,” has created quite a bit of attention around itself for not having...
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To the Medal Rounds We Go
To the Medal Rounds We ...
Alright, enough of this funny business. The United States men’s basketball team has had enough of this nonsense; it’s time for medal round play. On Monday morning, they got their wish, as they wrapped up their Group B schedule against Germany with yet another blowout...
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Team USA Ends Exhibition Play with 11pt. Victory Over Australia
Team USA Ends Exhibitio...
After rolling their first four opponents in exhibition play by at least 20 points, Team USA found its most difficult competition on Tuesday in the form of Australia, who were without their star big man Andrew Bogut, who missed the game with an injured ankle. Australia is the last...
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USA Battles to Top Russia
USA Battles to Top Russ...
After taking out Canada, Turkey, and Lithuania in their first three exhibition games, Team USA went head-to-head with Andrei Kirilenko and Russia early Sunday morning. The first two minutes of the ballgame were extremely uneventful on both ends of the floor, until LeBron James threw...
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USA Remains Undefeated
USA Remains Undefeated...
Team USA’s final exhibition game in Macao came this morning against Lithuania, but there was no dilly-dallying involved in this one. Unlike yesterday’s putrid defensive showing in the first quarter against Turkey, the boys in red, white, and blue put on a clinic to open...
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Team USA Routs Turkey
Team USA Routs Turkey...
Just six days after Team USA kicked off exhibition play with a 55-point victory over Canada at the Thomas & Mack Center, they took their talent to Macao to face Turkey this morning. LeBron James, who sat out last Friday’s game due to a sprained ankle, suited up for Coach...
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Team USA Begins Exhibition Play
Team USA Begins Exhibit...
Team USA Basketball’s 2008 exhibition season kicked off Friday night, as they squared off with Canada at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Granted, the team was without star forward LeBron James, who is currently nursing a sprained ankle, but it was still more...
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