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Dawna Townsend is a time keeper with the Toronto Raptors and she is here as a basketball referee/umpire-the first time a woman has been a referee for the USA and at the Olympics. She is seen working a game with USA vs Angola on August 12, 2008.

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T.O. referee makes hoops history in Olympics basketball

August 13, 2008

BEIJING–When the American men's basketball team took to the court to face Angola last night, they saw something they'd never seen before.

A female official.

A Canadian female official...

Barrett to miss out on trip to Beijing

July 21, 2008

Mississauga's Rowan Barrett and his teammates on Canada's national basketball squad will be...

Canada falls way short in Olympic basketball bid

July 18, 2008

Canada's Olympic basketball dream died early this morning, killed by three games of relatively...

Rally keeps Olympic basketball hopes alive

July 16, 2008

Coming off one of its more stirring comeback victories in recent history and still clinging to...

Canada drops Olympic basketball qualifier

Struggling at both ends of the floor, Canada was drilled 86-70 by Slovenia today at the Olympic men's basketball qualification tournament in Athens.

The Slovenian backcourt of Sani Becirovic and Jaka Lakovic, relative unknowns to anyone not a...

Canada's last shot at Olympic court

They believe because that's what athletes do – they believe in themselves.

They disregard the experts, discard the past and discount anything except what's in their heads, reality be damned.

It will take that kind of self-confidence...

Rautins rips officials after Germany sinks Canada

Canada saw first-hand the vagaries of international basketball officiating in its final tune-up before the men's Olympic qualification tournament next week in Athens.

In a game head coach Leo Rautins termed an "embarrassment,"...

Canadian men's basketball team will be on TV

Breakfast and basketball.

Fans will be able to watch the Canadian national men's team – very early in the morning – as it tries to qualify for the Beijing Olympics after The Score obtained broadcast rights to the tournament next week in...

'Intriguing' Anthony catching on to offensive aspects of game

Joel Anthony slipped a screen and made a nice catch of a lob pass in traffic before throwing down a double-pump dunk that had fans momentarily slack-jawed in wonderment.

A split second later, when they finally erupted in cheers, their...

He's every inch the coach

Athlete: Leo Rautins

Age: 48

Stats: 6-foot-7 1/4, 245 pounds

Sport: Basketball

Background: Leo Rautins has had a long relationship...

Road to Beijing begins in Hamilton

They talk a lot about trust around the national men's basketball team these days.

It's about trusting your own abilities and equally those of others, trust that the whole will be greater than the sum of its parts, trust that the team...

Barrett returns to national hoops team

Rowan Barrett is now a grizzled veteran, a guy who's been through the grind.

In other words, just what Canada's men's basketball team needs.

The 36-year-old Barrett, at one time the Robin to Steve Nash's Batman in international play...

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