>>One word, Hugo: baloncesto! LOL
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>Ouch! You like to pour salt on fresh wounds, do you?
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>I re-watched Argentina - USA first half yesterday. It was a pity that Manu re-injured his ankle in the match, at the moment of his injury the score was 12-4 for USA and less than four minutes remaining in the quarter (he injured at around 3:43-3:39), and the quarter ended 30-11. The match would have been much much closed with Manu in it (of course Argentina having two other starters injured did not help us either :()
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>Anyways, congratulations to the redeem team for the Gold they deserved it and I was most impressed with Kobe, not for his play but for his behaviour, He was really very classy thru the Olympics

Agreed. I have never been a Kobe fan but no one could have asked for him to conduct himself better than he did in Beijing. The whole team did. Apparently someone got through to them that they were damaging their reputations in international competitions, not only losing but acting boorishly.

It is too bad Argentina wasn't at full strength. At least they got the bronze. Now Nocioni is back in his new home, Chicago. (He is very popular here, as is any athlete who plays hard all the time).