{"id":30436,"date":"2011-09-02T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/dr-team-gives-in-to-canada\/"},"modified":"2011-09-02T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T01:43:56","slug":"dr-team-gives-in-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2011\/09\/02\/dr-team-gives-in-to-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"DR team gives in to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Canada nudged the DR 73-72 in their match in the 10-country FIBA Americas Olympic basketball qualification tournament on Thursday in Argentina. <\/p>\n<p> Canada&#8217;s win shouldn&#8217;t come as huge surprise given the history between the two countries. Canada is now 7-1 all time against the Dominican Republic, including a win two years ago in what amounted to a sudden-death game for a spot in the 2010 world championships.<\/p>\n<p> The Toronto Star celebrates the Canadian victory and points out that Charlie Villanueva, the ex-Raptor who is one of three NBA players on the Dominican roster, was invisible, going scoreless with only two three-point field goal attempts in just eight minutes of playing time.<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www2.mardelplata2011.com\/en\/default.asp<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.coachcal.com\/2011\/09\/01\/dominicans-suffer-first-fiba-americas-championship-loss\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada nudged the DR 73-72 in their match in the 10-country FIBA Americas Olympic basketball qualification tournament on Thursday in Argentina. Canada&#8217;s win shouldn&#8217;t come as huge surprise given the history between the two countries. Canada is now 7-1 all time against the Dominican Republic, including a win two years ago in what amounted to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2011\/09\/02\/dr-team-gives-in-to-canada\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[230,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}