COLUMN: Dream Team
One of the sports highlights of my younger days was watching the USA Olympic basketball team take to the court and beat the best of the rest of the world with our top college players.
With the horrible exception of the Munich Games of 1972, when the dreaded Soviets stole a victory from the USA in the infamous “extra-seconds” game, it was always a delight to see how our college kids could beat other country’s “professional” teams even though professional athletes were allegedly banned from Olympic competition.
I was vein-popping mad. The disappointment was so bad it stunk.
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