The 2nd Chance

50 years ago USA basketball got a rematch with the USSR. It was a chance to right the wrong that had been done to them in the 1972 Olympics.

PREVIEW from The Sports Time Traveler™

How often has your favorite team suffered a devastating loss in the big game under dubious circumstances?

For me, and many Americans, the 1972 USA Olympic basketball team loss to the Soviet Union was one of tho…