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NEW YORK -- Sometimes experience as an Olympian can give an announcer special insight -- even the most painful kind.NBCs Kevin Barnett knew what members of the U.S. womens volleyball were feeling Saturday when they had to rebound from a painful loss in the semifinals to play in a bronze medal match two days later. Theres no time to wallow in self-pity. You need to recover energy and focus.Barnett admitted he had a hard time doing that in 2004 as a member of the U.S. mens volleyball team competing in Athens. His team returned home on a two-match losing streak with a fourth-place finish.The American women rallied for coach Karch Kiraly to beat the Netherlands and secure a medal.Karch Kiraly (was) saying, `We love tough, Barnett said. No tougher situation than to lose what was your dream of Olympic gold and to come back and rally for a bronze.BOXING: Similarly, theres no time to waste in three-round Olympic boxing matches, and that occasionally left NBCs B.J. Flores sounding breathless in his call of the gold medal bantamweight fight between Cuban Robeisy Ramirez and American Shakur Stevenson. At first, Flores seemed to be working with more urgency than Stevenson, and he encouraged the 19-year-old American to not to fight defensively because hed lose the chance to score points and become the first male boxer from the United States to win gold since 2004. The fight, won by Ramirez on a split decision, was so close that Flores wisely laid out the facts and resisted a prediction on how the judges would rule.PERFECTION: The U.S. womens basketball team had a game on their hands -- for a quarter. Then they methodically routed Spain for a gold medal, continuing a 49-game winning streak that began with a bronze medal victory in 1992. That left NBCs Marc Zumoff and Ann Meyers Drysdale with time to kill, which theyre accustomed to doing in U.S. games. Itll be interesting to see if they can score 100 points, Drysdale mused with about four minutes to go. A Brianna Stewart three-pointer did the trick to make the final 101-72.TRIATHLON: Analyst Julie Swail was adroit with her insights on the womens triathlon, spotting the gamesmanship between American Gwen Jorgensen and Nicola Spirig of Switzerland as they ran together, neither wanting the more taxing task of running in front. Swait correctly predicted when Jorgensen would make a move to put the race out of reach. Colleague Al Trautwig wondered what would happen with two British racers, running side by side in third and fourth place, when the bronze medal was on the line. Theyre teammates, theyre best friends, theyre roommates, Swail said. But when it comes down to the run, its everyone for themselves. Thats exactly what happened.QUOTE: The absolute emotional high point of these Olympic games for Brazil. -NBCs Bob Costas describing the host countrys mens soccer team winning the gold medal in a shootout over Germany.STUNNED INTERVIEW: American runner Paul Chelimo seemed to be expecting a congratulatory interview with NBC Lewis Johnson about winning the silver medal in the 5,000 meter run, and he looked stunned when Johnson informed him hed been disqualified. He watched tape where he bumped into another runner, but Chelimo said it was because his effort to move had been blocked. Chelimo was ultimately reinstated.CLOSING NIGHT: NBC announced that Mike Tirico, Mary Carillo and Ryan Seacrest will host the Rio de Janeiro closing ceremony on Sunday night. Like the opening ceremony, it will be shown on tape delay.RATINGS: NBCs Friday night coverage, featuring dueling relays races between American and Jamaican runners, reached 20 million viewers, the Nielsen company said. 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Cheap Air Jordan 11 For Sale . -- Damian Lillard and LaMarcus Alrdridge were again the go-to duo for the Trail Blazers against the Kings. The Harvard Crimson mens soccer team has had its eligibility for awards and recognition revoked by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, after the schools decision to cancel the rest of the season when an investigation found that the team continually made vulgar and sexual comments about members of the womens soccer team.The NSCAA made the announcement on Wednesday. The penalty, approved due to the teams failure to maintain the standard of conduct set forth in the NSCAA Code of Ethics, disqualifies players from consideration for annual awards, including All-Region and All-America honors.Athletic director Robert Scalise wrote in an email to Harvard student-athletes earlier this month that he had decided to cancel the rest of the teams season because the practice, in which women were rated on their perceived sexual appeal and physical appearance, appeared to be more widespread across the team and has continued beyond 2012, including in 2016.As a direct result of what Harvard Athletics has learned, we have decided to cancel the remainder of the 2016 mens soccer season,, Scalise wrote.dddddddddddd The team will forfeit its remaining games and will decline any opportunity to achieve an Ivy League championship or to participate in the NCAA Tournament this year.The soccer team issued an apology to the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson.We accept responsibility for the mistakes and serious lapses in judgment that have led us here, and, in addition to accepting the sanctions from the Athletic Department, are shifting our focus toward the concrete actions we can take to address the fundamental issue of sexism in our community, the team said in its apology.The school had been investigating a document that was circulated by the 2012 mens soccer team. The document, which comprised sexual comments about members of the womens soccer team, was uncovered last week by The Harvard Crimson.The mens team had been in first place in the Ivy League. It will forfeit its remaining games and decline any opportunity for postseason play. cheap falcons jerseys cheap ravens jerseys cheap bills jerseys cheap bears jerseys cheap bengals jerseys cheap cowboys jerseys cheap lions jerseys cheap texans jerseys cheap colts jerseys cheap jaguars jerseys cheap chiefs jerseys cheap rams jerseys cheap dolphins jerseys cheap vikings jerseys cheap saints jerseys cheap giants jerseys cheap jets jerseys cheap eagles jerseys cheap steelers jerseys cheap 49ers jerseys ' ' '