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Beijing 2008
Greg Couch
BEIJING -- It hit Hugh McCutcheon all at once. All of it, together for the first time after he had compartmentalized so brilliantly before.
They were two little kids, free of the past and any doubts or suspicions. The U.S. basketball team won gold Sunday, beating Spain 118-107, and the players jump/hugged at center court like superstars rarely do.
Reflecting on the Beijing Games
Greg Couch: I went through a crazy cab ride, lost, past donkeys and little villages and people always sitting out by the street on their haunches all the way to the Great Wall, where I hiked on top, looking for it. I searched the Forbidden City, including the Hall of Preserved Harmony.
Bolt keeps troubled Games on fast track; IOC's Rogge doesn't get it
Greg Couch: Before the race, when the sprinters from Trinidad & Tobago were telling Usain Bolt that he was going to "drop the stick, and we are going to run past you," it was not bad sportsmanship. Not in this sport. "It was talking smack," T&T's Marc Burns said about Bolt and the Jamaicans, "to get in their heads and throw them off." Bolt knew that. He didn't care.