Two recruits from the Rivals.com Class of 2010 top 20 never appeared in a game last season. The first, everyone knows. The NCAA deemed him a professional due to benefits he received from a professional club in Turkey, and Kentucky's Internet fan-army started a T-shirt campaign to "free" him from the collegiate ban. Ultimately all he did was serve as a student assistant coach and train in Lexington. He still managed to be picked No. 3 overall in last month's NBA draft. Things worked out well for Enes Kanter.
RIGA, Latvia -- All quiet here on the morning after the FIBA U19 World Championships, except for the footsteps of scattered tourists making their way over the cobblestones, admiring the Medieval and Gothic architecture. Riga is Europe's more underappreciated destinations, a beautiful Baltic capital famous for its Old Town (where I'm sitting outside, writing my final missive), its wealth of Art Nouveau buildings in the city center, and its night-time mix of sprawling summer beer gardens and sweaty Euro-clubs. Its latitude is so far north that it only gets truly dark for a few hours each day, and so the drunks go home around 6 a.m. and give way to the camera-toters only a few hours later.
RIGA, Latvia -- Outside the Arena Riga press room, after the U.S. suffered a stunning 79-74 loss in the quarterfinals of the FIBA U19 World Championships, one of the Russian-speaking writers stopped me and said while smiling, "This has to be really humbling for you guys, no?"
RIGA, Latvia -- Of the international NCAA prospects here for the FIBA U19 World Championship, the most intriguing one I found wasn't even playing at Arena Riga this week -- he was asleep high up in the stands, behind a smattering of NBA scouts.
RIGA, Latvia -- In the animated Australian cheering section here at the FIBA U19 World Championship, sitting two seats to the left of an inflatable, yellow kangaroo, and two seats to the right of a man who was playing a cowbell while wearing a kangaroo T-shirt, was a surprising sight: Butler forward Khyle Marshall, in his Team USA jersey, actively rooting on the Aussies against Brazil.
Latvia's president disolved the national legislature on Saturday, according to the Baltic country's official news agency LETA.
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Two more people held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility have been transferred to other countries, the Pentagon announced Thursday.
Dubai's not the only onetime highflier that risks drowning in debt.
Scientists expressed skepticism Monday about reports that a meteorite's impact created a crater near a northern Latvia farm.
In the financial crisis, Europe's banking sector has been the shoe that wouldn't drop.
South Korea leads the world in providing broadband services, according to a study released on Thursday. The United States did not make the top 10.
Center right and minority parties make gains across Europe as turnout in elections for the new European Parlimanent dips to a record low of 43 percent. Below is a country by country selection of some of the key results at national level.
Canada has beaten Latvia 4-2 in the quarterfinals of the ice hockey world championship.
BERN, Switzerland (AP) -- The United States found its ruthless streak -- eventually -- and beat Austria 6-1 Monday to advance to the second round of the ice hockey world championship.
Nearly 1,000 people remain on board a stranded cruise ship after it ran aground off the coast of Latvia. (No audio)
Latvia expelled a Russian diplomat Monday on the grounds that the man "poses a threat to state security," the government said.
Six of the seven Ancient Wonders of the World have vanished into history, but now there may be a way to recreate these ancient heritage sites, as well as to people them and furnish them in a historically authentic way.
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Latvia's parliament voted overwhelmingly to support the EU constitution Thursday, a decision lawmakers and analysts said sent a message from the new Europe to the old that the approval process must continue.
Europe's leaders are agonizing over the future of the EU constitution after voters in the Netherlands joined the French in rejecting it.
British authorities trying to identify a mute pianist found wandering on a beach have been given more than 300 possible names, but have yet to establish his identity.
U.S. President George W. Bush told the leaders of the three Baltic nations Saturday that "we recognize your painful history."
President Bush, in a speech to the Latvian people on Saturday, called three Baltic nations' transfer to Soviet control after World War II '"one of the greatest wrongs of history."
U.S. President Bush has arrived in Latvia, the first stop in what could be a politically charged tour designed to promote democracy and mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.
Voters in Latvia and Malta have begun casting ballots in their first European Parliament elections.
The cobblestone streets of Riga look peaceful enough.
Drop into a coffee shop in the Baltics and ask almost anyone what they think about joining Europe, and they're apt to correct you.
With 10 more countries about to swell the ranks of the EU come May 1, the one business sector likely to get a boost is the travel industry -- both for leisure and business.
All of NATO's diplomacy skills will be needed to calm the fears of Russia over the military alliance's eastward expansion, analysts say.
U.S. President George W. Bush has formally welcomed the addition of seven new members to the NATO alliance during a ceremony Monday.
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