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Usain Bolt in the NFL

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Usain Bolt on the New York Giants as a Wide Receiver. Just Watch His 40 time!!

US Men’s Basketball Practice Before Beijing

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

SportsU.S. Men’s Basketball Practice Before BeijingU.S. Men’s Basketball Practice Before BeijingThe Associated PressThe United States took a small first step on the long march to Beijing. The Americans tried on their new uniforms, then went through a two-hour practice at Cox Pavilion on the UNLV campus, as the AP’s John Mone reports from Las Vegas. (June 29)[[VO: US Olympic team practicing]] [[SUPER: Las Vegas]]12 AMERICAN MEN AREN’T TAKING THE SUMMER OFF AFTER A GRUELING NBA SEASON……- [[SOT]] [[SUPER: Kobe Bryant//Team USA]]” you know it would really suck a championship and gold medal in the same year. no away around it. no we are going to get this done.” [[VO]] [[TRACK]]TO ACHIEVE A LOFTY GOAL… [[SOT]] [[SUPER: Lebron James//]]”i think it’s just important for us to represent our country. it’s a tough commitment to make. you give up at least three summers, that could be rest time.” BRING HOME GOLD MEDAL NUMBER 13 FOR TEAM USA BASKETBALL, WHEN THE 12 MEN SQUAD HEADS TO THE OLYMPICS IN BEIJING LATER THIS SUMMER. [[STAND UP]] [[SUPER: John Mone//The Associated Press]]” after a less than stellar performance in…team members are fining tuning their skills for the global game.” [[SOT]] [[SUPER: Lebron James//]]” what happened in 2004 wasn’t the best for me, Dwayne and Carmelo. It was a bad situation,. we didn’t play as a much as we should have. we’re hoping to make an impact on team USA. ” LEBRON JAMES, CARMELO ANTHONY, DWAYNE WADE AND CARLOS BOOZER ARE ALL SHOOTING FOR

SNOWBOARD BASKETBALL FTW!

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

These guys are UNREAL! They designed this wicked custom half pipe and set themselves an extreme challenge! Check out the results, its insane!

Nike Basketball Commercial

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Featuring Marvin Gaye and the USA Basketball Team

1992 USA Basketball Dream Team Top 10 Plays

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

The top ten plays from the greatest sports team ever assembled: The 1992 USA Olympic Men’s Basketball “Dream Team”, an historic teaming of legendary NBA players for the first time in Olympic competition: Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, John Stockton, Karl Malone, Clyde Drexler, Chris Mullin, Scottie Pippen, Charles Barkley and Christian Laettner.

Nadal wins gold

Monday, August 18th, 2008

And we thought Roger was untouchable! Rafael Nadal has grabbed the highly prized trophy that is the Olympic gold medal. Sure it won’t be the paycheck of a Wimbledon or French Open, but this form of glory matters more. It was a hard fought 4 setter, with Nadal holding out his unfancied Chilean contender Fernando Gonzales 6-3 7-6 (7-2) 6-3.

Men’s singles has traditionally been an upset-filled event at the Olympics, and Nadal is the first player ranked in the top five to win the gold. He stayed in the athletes’ village and said the experience rejuvenated him. “I arrived very tired,” he said. “The reason probably I won this title is because I have a fantastic time here enjoying a lot in the village. That was amazing experience for me. Always was a pleasure to know new people, no?”

And it comes as no surprise that Nadal takes over as world No. 1 today when the new rankings are issued, replacing Roger Federer. Preparations are well in train for the US Open which begins in less than 2 weeks time.

Williams sisters win gold

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Despite being knocked out of the singles competition, Serena and Venus Williams have backed up today and won a fairly easy encounter to win the gold medal in the womens doubles event at Beijing. Both Venus and Serena were beaten in the quarter-finals of the women’s singles event. The singles disapointment was well and truly behind them as they tackled this next assignment.

Seeded number 2, the American sisters had a straight forward win over Spanish duo Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual, (who were seeded 4) 6-2 6-0. This is the second doubles Olympic gold for Serena and Venus, having won gold in the Sydney 2000 games. They were unable to defend thier title in Athens due to an injury to Serena. They become only the second pair to win the title twice after fellow Americans Gigi Fernandez and Mary Jo Fernandez.

 
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