// Mike Krzyzewski has won 927 college basketball games, made 11 Final Fours, won four NCAA Championships and earned an Olympic gold medal since landing his first head coaching gig at Army in 1975. In those 37 years, he’d never sat courtside for anything this ludicrous. “Well, obviously, we just shot better than any team in a game that I have ever coached,” Kryzewski said after Team USA’s 156-73 dismantling of Nigeria. When the buzzer sounded, finally and mercifully, Team USA had
The Olympics is fully underway, which means you’ll be reading plenty of news about NBA players involved in the special event for the foreseeable future. In today’s news, you’ll find LeBron James’ take on Kevin Durant’s role on a team full of superstars, Nicolas Batum’s thoughts on Team USA, Kobe Bryant’s trackback on Dream Team comment along with some player movements. Kevin Durant has tried his best to not be a ball hog on a team full of dominant scorers, but
For Team USA, the next three days will be more of an annoyance than anything. The games against Tunisia and Nigeria are not going to be competitive, and the challenge will be staying as sharp and fresh as possible. The betting line for Tuesday’s game is an incredible 56 points. One hazard of being American in a city five hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time — you must work late. Tipoff for the games Tuesday and Thursday is 10:15 p.m. local time in
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I am going to give you a Team USA gold-or-not prediction in this column, and I promise you a prediction that goes against the grain. That’s all I’ll say about that … for now. First, I’ll hand over the podium and relay a quote that could be the defining declaration concerning the London Olympics: “Let’s no longer beat about the bush. This summer’s Olympics Games are going to be a catalog of disasters. Not everything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Nominations for photo of the day are hereby declared closed. The winner is the picture below. It comes from the Facebook page of IAMAGM.com, which is a great site. These are the suits the Americans will wear when they march in the opening ceremony tonight. Apparently, we have chosen a cross between British schoolboy uniform and Catalan police garb.
