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Fowles helps U.S. women open Games with win

By Mechelle Voepel
ESPN.com

Saturday, August 9, 2008

BEIJING -- The U.S. women's basketball program has been relying on Lisa Leslie as the inside force since before most of us were regularly using the Internet. Yeah, that long. When she wasn't able to go to the 2006 World Championship because her uncle was in a serious accident, Team USA felt the effects of her absence. And ended up with bronze. She's back for these Olympics, her fourth, and says she won't be going to London in 2012. Well, I still won't count her out, but at least it appears ...

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