Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been tapped by Republican presidential candidate John McCain to be his running mate.
Palin was dubbed "Sarah Barracuda" by opponents when she was mayor of the town of Wasilla, Alaska, resurrecting a nickname she earned as a state champion high school basketball player, according to the Almanac of American Politics.
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Former Florida Gators point guard Taurean Green has agreed to play for the Spanish club CAI Zaragoza, according to Alligator.
Green is in the process of negotiating what is believed to be a one-year deal with the team.
"I feel like this is the best move for me right now," he said. "The competition is tough. The guys playing in this league are good players."
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Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski will continue to be a part of USA Basketball in the future after leading the Americans to the gold medal in Beijing, according to ESPN.com.
Krzyzewski said Wednesday that he will continue to be involved in helping USA Basketball with the model that managing director Jerry Colangelo organized three years ago.
"It's a critical time to use the momentum we've gained over the past three years to make us even stronger in basketball," Krzyzewski said.
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Aug 2008 Archive
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NBC 9 | Aug 27, 2008
NBA legend and TNT analyst Charles Barkley was in Denver on Tuesday to support presidential candidate Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention.
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ESPN | Aug 26, 2008
Former NBA player Wayman Tisdale has had part of his right leg amputated due to bone cancer.
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Yahoo! | Aug 26, 2008
A northwestern Pennsylvania woman who claims Michael Jordan fathered her son is out of jail after agreeing not to bother the NBA legend anymore.
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The East Valley Tribune | Aug 25, 2008
Phoenix prosecutor Andrew Thomas wants more information on disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy regarding whether or not he did anything illegal while officiating Suns games.
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East Valley Tribune | Aug 25, 2008
Andrew Thomas said he wanted to know whether Donaghy broke any Arizona laws while officiating two Phoenix Suns-Los Angeles Lakers playoff games in 2007.
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New York Daily News | Aug 25, 2008
Larry Brown was the head coach of Team USA during their Bronze Medal performance in the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
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News-Herald | Aug 24, 2008
Dan Fegan has sold his agency practice to Blue Entertainment Sports Television.
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San Francisco Chronicle | Aug 24, 2008
The attitude and mentality of Team USA has changed considerably over the past few years, and players from opposing countries have taken notice.
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Bloomberg | Aug 24, 2008
The NBA has signed a multi-year sponsorship agreement with China's largest brewery Tsingtao Brewery Co. that will fund sports and dance competitions related to the NBA in the country.
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RealGM | Aug 24, 2008
Playing without star guard Manu Ginobili, Argentina led by as many as 24 before settling for the 12 point win over Lithuania in the bronze medal game, 87-75.
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RealGM | Aug 24, 2008
The United States may have taken home the gold, but the Spaniards did not simply hand the hardware across to the Redeem Team like most expected.
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The New York Times | Aug 23, 2008
With renewed international success in Beijing this summer, it seems as though playing for the United States is now in fashion.
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Aug 23, 2008
Former NBA forward Shawn Kemp scored 25 points during a 3-on-3 game at KeyArena on Friday and confirmed that he's going to play overseas.
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AP | Aug 23, 2008
Lisa Leslie scored 14 points Saturday night to lead the U.S. women's basketball team to a 92-65 win over Australia in the gold medal game.
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Andrew Perna/RealGM | Aug 22, 2008
The United States defeated Argentina 101-81 on Friday morning to advance to the gold medal game in Beijing, where they will face Spain.
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Andrew Perna/RealGM | Aug 22, 2008
Spain defeated Lithuania 91-86 on Friday morning to advance to the gold medal game in Beijing.
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The South Florida Sun-Sentinel | Aug 21, 2008
Dwyane Wade claims that there is nothing tiring about playing for an Olympic gold medal.
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The Star-Ledger | Aug 21, 2008
Hornets' point guard Chris Paul believes that everyone in the NBA is going to want to play for Team USA at the next Olympics in 2012.
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Yahoo! | Aug 21, 2008
NBA teams have been cleared to negotiate with Iranians, meaning that coveted center Hamed Ehadadi can sign with a team.
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RealGM | Aug 20, 2008
After the first three quarter-finals resulted in blowouts, Greece and Argentina provided the best game of the Olympics.
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RealGM | Aug 20, 2008
Australia was able to keep things close in the first half, but Kobe Bryant took over in the second half to give America a 31-point win.
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RealGM | Aug 20, 2008
Kobe Bryant and the Americans dominated Australia in the second quarter, opening up a 28 point lead and putting an upset to rest.
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RealGM | Aug 20, 2008
A Deron Williams three pointer at the half time buzzer gave the US their biggest lead of the game at 12.
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RealGM | Aug 20, 2008
Yao Ming, Yi Juilian, and the Chinese National Team officially ended their Olympic campaign on Tuesday night when they were bombarded from long range by a determined Lithuania, eventually losing the game 94-68.
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RealGM | Aug 20, 2008
Spain, led by Pau Gasol, were able to overpower the youthful Croatians 72-59 to advance to the next round in the Olympics.
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RealGM | Aug 20, 2008
The Americans have their hands full in the quarter finals, leading Australia by only one point after the first quarter.
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Channel News | Aug 19, 2008
Yao Ming was furious at being benched in China's loss to Greece on Monday.
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ESPN | Aug 19, 2008
NBA Commissioner David Stern would like for the league to soon have a presence in both China and India.
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The Boston Globe | Aug 18, 2008
Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski will not return to coach Team USA after the conclusion of this month's Olympic Games in Beijing.
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Rocky Mountain News | Aug 18, 2008
John Amaechi is serving as a basketball analyst for his homeland Great Britain's BBC at the Olympics.
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Andrew Perna/RealGM | Aug 18, 2008
Dwight Howard had 22 points and 9 rebounds for Team USA on Monday as they embarrassed Germany in a 106-57 rout in Beijing.
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The News-Tribune | Aug 18, 2008
Seattle is hoping to keep KeyArena afloat in order to have an NBA-ready facility active so they can attempt to secure another team in the near future.
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Andrew Perna/RealGM | Aug 16, 2008
China edged Germany 59-55 on Saturday morning, thanks to a pair of clutch plays by Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian.
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Andrew Perna/RealGM | Aug 16, 2008
The United States was red-hot on Saturday morning in their 119-82 rout of Spain.
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The Oregonian | Aug 15, 2008
Guard Dan Dickau has signed a two-year deal to play with Avellino of the Italian League.
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ESPN | Aug 14, 2008
A woman who claims that Michael Jordan fathered her son has been sentenced to a week in jail for violating a court order.
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ESPN | Aug 14, 2008
Spain used a strong run over the second and third quarters to defeat Germany at the Olympics in Beijing on Thursday.
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NBC 6 | Aug 14, 2008
Vincent Askew, formerly of the Seattle Supersonics, has been accused of having sex with a teenager he met at a local high school.
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ESPN | Aug 14, 2008
Kobe Bryant and Chris Bosh led the United States in a 92-69 win over Greece on Thursday, earning a measure of revenge in the process.
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Yahoo! | Aug 12, 2008
Spain's Olympic basketball team posed for an advertisement prior to the start of the Games which appears to show all its players slanting their eyes.
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NBC.com | Aug 12, 2008
The United States improved to 2-0 in Beijing with a win over Angola on Tuesday.
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RealGM | Aug 12, 2008
The Chinese led Spain all game but could not hold on, eventually going down by 10 in overtime.
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The Oklahoman | Aug 6, 2008
The NBA will release the upcoming NBA schedule today.
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RealGM | Aug 5, 2008
Despite not having starting center Andrew Bogut (ankle), the Australian national team was able to give the Americans a solid game ahead of the actual Olympic opener on August 10, with the U.S. taking the game by 11 points.
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RealGM.com | Aug 3, 2008
The U.S. National Team was able to defeat Russia 89-68 on Sunday morning US time, but things were not as easy as they have been in the past.
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