US Beats Spain To Win Gold Medal in Men’s Basketball
The United States men’s basketball team “the reedeem team” redeemed themselves with a win over Spain winning 118-107 in the gold-medal game. The US who were heavy favorites, faced a tough challenge from Spain, but prevailed in the end. Dwyane Wade lead the team with 27 points, Kobe Bryant added 20 points, Lebron James scored [...]
US Women’s Basketball Team Wins Gold In Beijing
The United States women’s basketball team won their fourth straight gold medal in the Olympics. The US beat Australia 92-65 in a very lopsided game (guess the next sport the IOC will want to remove is basketball). The Russian women’s basketball team won the bronze medal by beating China 94-81.
An interesting note on the game [...]
US Men’s Basketball Team Reaches Gold Medal Final
The United States men’s basketball team defeated Argentina (gold medalists in the 2004 Athens Olympics) 101-81. The US team will battle with Spain for the gold medal on Sunday. The US is looking really good, but Spain does have a good team lead by NBA superstar Pau Gasol.
If the US team let’s it guard down [...]
US Beats Angola In Second Round Basketball Action
The US Men’s basketball team beat Angola 97-76 in their second round match up. In the third round of the Olympics basketball the US will face Greece who upset them two years ago in the World Championships.
What can you watch tomorrow? Monday, August 11
Late night on NBC you can watch women’s volleyball and women’s 100m breaststroke semifinals. During the day tomorrow, it’s women’s water polo, men’s beach volleyball and more qualifying rounds for swimming. Then in primetime, Michael Phelps his march towards Olympic history in the 200m free. Teammates Aaron Peirsol and Natalie Coughlin have a [...]
U.S. Basketball Team Beats China
Yao Ming wasn’t enough to help China overcome the U.S. The “Redeem Team” won 101-70 in this morning’s televised game. It was a strong start for the U.S., hopefully a sign that they will reclaim the gold, which slipped through their fingers four years ago.
What’s on tomorrow?
You could pretty much start watching the Olympics at midnight and just watch it straight through tomorrow.
Your local NBC affiliate will be showing men’s volleyball overnight. Then, from 1-5 a.m., you can see a replay of tonight’s primetime. Tomorrow morning, you can see the U.S. basketball team against China. Also in the [...]
Saturday’s Coverage of the Beijing Olympics
I have obligations that prevent me from posting on Saturday, but I didn’t want to leave you hanging completely, so here’s what’s available for your viewing pleasure on Saturday.
During primetime Saturday night, you can watch men’s gymnastics qualifying rounds, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh doubtless trouncing a Latvian beach volleyball team, and gold medal rounds [...]
Beijing Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony Airs Tomorrow
The television coverage of the China Olympics begins in earnest tomorrow with the opening ceremony, which will air on NBC from 6:30 p.m. until 11 p.m.(all times CST). In case you’re wondering, Beijing is 13 hours ahead of U.S. Central Standard Time. So, as I’m writing this, it’s 8:30 tomorrow morning (weird).
You can [...]
US Olympic Basketball Team Squeaks By Australia
In preparation for the Olympics in China, the US Basketball team got a scare from the Australian team. Australia, who was resting their top player, lost by 11 points in a game that could have easily been won by the Australians.
The US did manage to win the game 87-76, but they played like it didn’t [...]
U.S. Olympics Basketball Team Roster
The roster for U.S. Olympic basketball team was announced today. One thing that stands out to me is that the team is on the small side. They are loaded with talent, but I am a little concerned about their size.
Anyway, here is the final 12 man roster for the United States Olympic basketball team:
Kobe Bryant [...]
US Basketball Team Named
The United States Basketball team has been selected. You can read more here.
One of the most notable players missing from the team is Allen Iverson. Iverson played on the 2004 team that won bronze. Even though it was a disapointing team, Allen was one of the few big name players to play for the 2004 [...]