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Team USA's basketball players pass up Olympic Village for luxury cruise ship
Team USA's basketball players pass up Olympic Village for luxury cruise ship
When it comes to the athletes who will be competing in the Rio Olympics, some are more equal than others.Take, for instance, the U.S. men and women who will compete for gold medals in basketball.While others deal with incomplete or shoddy construction in some places in the Olympic Village, the American hoopsters will be living the good life aboard the Silver Cloud, one of the ships in the Silversea luxury cruise line.
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Could this team of homegrown Maryland basketball players win Olympic gold?
Could this team of homegrown Maryland basketball players win Olympic gold?
Could a Maryland-only basketball team win gold at the 2016 Olympics?Excluding the disastrous 2004 Olympics, the United States has been an overwhelmingly dominant force in international basketball since pro players began being used in 1992.So what if the US could only use players from the state of Maryland?
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Women's Olympic basketball players hope for more LGBT acceptance in NBA
Women's Olympic basketball players hope for more LGBT acceptance in NBA
Skip Ad Ad Loading... x Embed x Share LGBT advocates in Rio de Janeiro describe their ongoing battle for equal rights in a city that doesn't fully accept them.When Elena Delle Donne came out as gay, there was little fanfare.Other WNBA players say they wish their male counterparts felt as comfortable.
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Olympic US men's basketball team cheer on women's volleyball players
Olympic US men's basketball team cheer on women's volleyball players
Members of the star-studded US men's basketball team surprised beach volleyball fans when they showed up to cheer on Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross in their quest for gold.NBA stars Kevin Durant, Draymond Green, DeAndre Jordan and Jimmy Butler waved an American flag in the stands while Walsh Jennings and Ross took on a pair from Australia in the quarter-finals Sunday night.Walsh Jennings - who won gold at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics with former teammate Misty May-Treanor - and Ross didn't disappoint, defeating Louise Bawden and Taliqua Clancy 2-0 at an arena on Rio de Janeiro's famous Copacabana beach.