Don't know exactly why, but Puerto Rico is allowed to participate separately in a lot of international competitions, including the Olympics. They went to Moscow in 1980 when we stayed home.
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 7:19 AM, danny burstein <[email protected]> wrote: > ahem: > > NEW YORK Aug 23, 2014, 1:32 AM ET > By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer > Associated Press > > The U.S. has picked the 12 players it believes can defend its world > basketball title. > > The Americans kept Derrick Rose and cut All-Star Damian Lillard and three > others early Saturday morning, getting their roster down to the limit for > the FIBA World Cup of Basketball. > ....... > Kyle Korver, Gordon Hayward and Chandler Parsons also were cut, shortly > after the Americans beat Puerto Rico 112-86 in their final home exhibition > game. > ==== > rest: > http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/us-beats-puerto- > rico-112-86-hoops-exhibition-25093151 > > _____________________________________________________ > Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key > [email protected] > [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "World News Now Discussion List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
