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OLYMPICS US women’s volleyball team finally golden TOKYO (AP) — It’s a breakthrough for the U.S. women’s volleyball team and old hat for the country’s women’s basketball team at the Tokyo Games. The volleyball team will leave Japan with the first Olympic gold medal in the program’s history. The Yanks took the final with a straight-sets victory over Brazil. The…

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OLYMPICS US women’s volleyball team finally golden TOKYO (AP) — It’s a breakthrough for the U.S. women’s volleyball team and old hat for the country’s women’s basketball team at the Tokyo Games. The volleyball team will leave Japan with the first Olympic gold medal in the program’s history. The Yanks took the final with a straight-sets victory over Brazil. The…

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OLYMPICS US women’s volleyball team finally golden TOKYO (AP) — It’s a breakthrough for the U.S. women’s volleyball team and old hat for the country’s women’s basketball team at the Tokyo Games. The volleyball team will leave Japan with the first Olympic gold medal in the program’s history. The Yanks took the final with a straight-sets victory over Brazil. The…

US rolls to women’s hoops gold medal in Bird’s last Olympics

By DOUG FEINBERG - AP Basketball Writer
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Sue Bird capped off her unblemished 17-year Olympics run with a record fifth gold medal. All she and longtime U.S. teammate Diana Taurasi have done on the international stage is win and now stand alone with five gold medals — the first basketball players ever to accomplish that feat — after a 90-75 win over Japan on Sunday at the Tokyo Games. The U.S. has now won the last seven Olympic gold medals matching the country’s men’s program for the most ever in a row. The men did it from 1936-68.

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OLYMPICS Seven straight golds for US women’s basketball team TOKYO (AP) — The US women’s basketball team has run its Olympic winning streak to 55 games and seven gold medals. Brittney Griner poured in 30 points on 14 of 18 shooting as the Americans knocked off Japan, 90-75. The U.S. jumped out to a 18-5 lead and was up 24-13…

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OLYMPICS Sweet 16 as Tokyo Games draw to a close TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Games will wrap up within the next 12 hours, but there are plenty of medals up for grabs on Day 16. The U.S. women’s basketball team puts its 54-game Olympic winning streak on the line against Japan as the Americans eye their seventh consecutive gold…

The Latest: Coach Bill Cowher enters the Hall of Fame

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CANTON, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on the Pro Football Hall of Fame inductions on Saturday: The steely jaw. That’s the physical feature that seemed to define Bill Cowher. Of course, when you win a Super Bowl, coach a contending team for 15 seasons and develop some of the most talented players of the era, there is so much more….

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OLYMPICS Sweet 16 as Tokyo Games draw to a close TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Games will wrap up within the next 24 hours, but there are plenty of medals up for grabs on Day 16. The U.S. women’s basketball team puts its 54-game Olympic winning streak on the line against Japan as the Americans eye their seventh consecutive gold…

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OLYMPICS Gold for US men and women in 4×400 relay, Felix gets 11th medal TOKYO (AP) — U.S. women have won gold in the 4×400 relay, giving Allyson Felix her 11th Olympic medal. The team of Felix, Sydney McLaughlin, Dalilah Muhammad and Athing Mu finished in 3 minutes, 16.85 seconds for a runaway victory. Poland finished second and Jamaica was…