On her 32nd birthday -- July 19, 1996 -- Teresa Edwards made the rounds with President Bill Clinton in Atlantas Olympic Village, took part in the opening ceremony, recited the athletes oath, and was left thinking, This has been one pretty amazing day.No womens basketball player has spent more time wearing a Team USA jersey at the Olympics than Edwards did. She competed in the Summer Games five times -- 1984, 88, 92, 96 and 2000 -- winning four gold medals and one silver.They were all special experiences, but the Atlanta Games, held in her home state of Georgia, were the most amazing of all.When I first met the president, we were doing a flag presentation in front of all the captains of the various sports teams in an auditorium. He was charming, personable, happy to be around the athletes. My mother loved the man to death, so I had to say, Mr. President, my mom wanted me to say hello to you from her. We went around the village so the athletes could meet and shake hands with him. And that felt great. Then I went back to get ready for the opening ceremony.A couple of days later, the president and Hillary showed up in our locker room after one of our games. They were everywhere. It was one heck of an experience. It was wonderful to have them want to be there and spend time with our team.Edwards was born and grew up in Cairo, in the southwestern part of Georgia, not far from the Florida border. She had played at Georgia for coach Andy Landers, leading the Bulldogs to the Womens Final Four twice.She already had competed in one Olympics in the United States: the Los Angeles Games when she was just 20 and still in college. Now, after a nearly year-long Olympic preparation tour by the U.S. team, during which the team went 52-0, it was a pivotal time in womens basketball history. Both the ABL and WNBA were set to launch after the Atlanta Games in 1996.In 1984, I wouldnt have been able to really define the word Olympics. I just didnt know anything about it. I went to the Olympic trials reluctantly; I think I was a little nervous. Coach Landers gave me a great talk that got me out there. Once I made the team and we went to L.A., at first it still just felt like a really big, fancy basketball tournament. By the time we got to the last game and we were celebrating, I really, really realized what it was all about.By 1996, it felt like we had an opportunity to truly do something different: To introduce people in the United States to womens basketball at a higher level so we would have an opportunity to have pro ball here. That was so huge, but it actually wasnt distracting. Because the core of what we do was just play. I thought, All I need to do is perform, entertain and have fun.You can sense true greatness in certain people. Once [USA Basketball] assembled our team, you could tell we were about to embark on something huge. Every one of those players was special. We grew up very fast, and we enjoyed each others company. When we got out on the court, we jelled like peanut butter and jelly. We were smooth.One of the early stops of the pre-Olympics USA Basketball tour had been in Atlanta, in October 1995. U.S. coach Tara VanDerveer took the players to the Georgia Dome then to see what it would be like competing there the following summer, and had them visualize winning the gold medal. By that point, Edwards already had two golds, but she also had bronzes from the 1992 Olympics and 1994 world championship that still stuck in her craw.So when she took to the court to start the Atlanta Games, Edwards was pinpoint-focused.Wed played together so long, and we were so close to the finish line, I just felt like, This is not the time to screw it up. So once I was inside the lines on the court, I would not look outside the lines. I said, Im not speaking to anyone or looking over, no matter how many times they call my name. I dont care if its my mom in the stands yelling at me; Ive got to stay focused. The stakes were just too high. Me being the oldest one, the captain, the point guard, that was how I handled it.Wed played all these teams so many times that we could have lost a game to them. They knew us just as well as we knew them.But, in fact, no team could stop the Americans, who won their eight games in Atlanta by an average of 28.6 points. They shot 66.2 percent from the field in beating Brazil 111-87 in the gold-medal game.Edwards then went through the joy and heartbreak of the ABL, which launched in the fall of 1996 but lasted just two full seasons. Eventually, Edwards played and coached in the WNBA, but she says working with younger kids is her true passion. She and two of her Olympic teammates, Katrina McClain and Ruthie Bolton, have formed a group called Gold Medal Team that gives clinics and works on community projects across the country.Edwards was the chef de mission for the U.S. Olympic team at the 2012 London Games, which gave her an even greater connection to all American athletes. And when she thinks about Atlanta 1996, its with a mixture of pride ... and a little relief.I wanted to kick Brazils butts to the fullest, and I was totally excited about playing them in the final because theyd beat us in the 94 world championship. I was the old lady whod been through it before, but winning the gold medal really was a big relief, too. Because mentally, physically, emotionally, it was a big load for me to be able to let go.I remember that Olympics that everybody else from the United States was winning, too. Gymnastics was on the other side of [the Georgia Dome] and we saw them walking in and out. We already knew the soccer team, and softball was also doing well. We were well aware what all the women were doing, so when you saw each other, there was this light, this glow, this support.It was like, Theres no stopping us. We felt the momentum of it, and it felt amazing. We were all in the same spotlight in the same place, and I do think we changed womens sports with those Olympics forever. Air Force 1 Low Noir . Speaking to the Chicago Tribune at baseballs Winter Meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Boras called the former home of the Expos a "tremendous environment" for baseball. Nike Air Force 1 07 Soldes . -- Washington Redskins tight end Fred Davis was charged Thursday with driving while intoxicated, a day after he was suspended for an NFL substance-abuse policy violation. http://www.siteairforce1pascher.fr/air-force-1-low-soldes/basket-basse-noir.html . Their experience showed Tuesday as the No. 10 Badgers blunted a Saint Louis surge to win 63-57 and advance to face West Virginia in Wednesdays finals of the Cancun Challenge. Air Force 1 Basse Homme . Howard Ganz, an MLB lawyer, said in a letter to U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos that Rodriguezs claims do not come "remotely close" to what is needed to overturn an arbitration decision in federal court. Air Force 1 Soldes . Aside from the trilogy main event title fight, there are a number of intriguing matchups in the heavyweight, welterweight and lightweight divisions. ARLINGTON, Texas -- Rookies Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott keep winning for the Dallas Cowboys, even with Kirk Cousins setting records for the Washington Redskins.Prescott accounted for two touchdowns , Elliott ran for a pair of scores and the Cowboys extended their franchise regular-season record with a 10th straight victory, beating the Redskins 31-26 on Thursday.Prescott tied Don Merediths club quarterback record from 50 years ago with his fifth rushing TD and the NFL-leading Cowboys (10-1) won despite 449 yards passing and three touchdowns from Cousins, the first Redskins quarterback with two 400-yard games in a season.You know youre talking to someone who knows how hard this is to win 10 games in a row, and I do, Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said. I know how were getting it done, and were getting done by hard work and Daks a great example.The Redskins (6-4-1) got swept by their NFC East rival, and the defending division champions fell 3 1/2 games behind Dallas with five games left. It was their seventh loss in eight tries on Thanksgiving against Cowboys, who had never won more than eight straight in the regular season.Weve been in third place for a while, so we have to understand where we are what its going to take to get an opportunity to come back here in the future, Washington coach Jay Gruden said. The last five games of the year are critical.Elliott, the NFL rushing leader, had the fourth score on five straight second-half touchdown drives between the two teams with a 1-yard run for a 31-19 lead midway through the fourth quarter. The 21-year-old had 97 yards to give him 1,199 for the season.After getting 43 yards on the first Dallas possession, Elliott had just 13 yards before a 21-yarder to start Dallas last TD drive. It was the second straight week he finished with 97 yards after some difficulty in the first half.Over time, you keep running the football, youre going to wear them down, Dallas coach Jason Garrett said. He made some big runs late that were critical. It really broke their back.The Cowboys had an eight-game streak with at least 400 yards snapped, finishing with 353. But Dallas answered with touchdowns each time the Redskins got within a score on Cousins passes of 5 yards to Jordan Reed and 67 yards to DeSean Jackson , who had 118 yards receiving.After Cousins second scoring toss to Reed, an 8-yarder with 1:53 remaining, Dustin Hopkins onside kick went out of bounds. The Cowboys ran out the clock.ddddddddddddThe way Dallas was able to come back and put points on the board in those situations is part of the reason why they are such a good football team, said Cousins , who was 41 of 53 and finished 8 yards shy of his career high.As an offense, whenever we got the football, it was pretty much the same. Move the football, put points on the board, make good decisions and manage it well.Cousins took the Washington career lead with his third 400-yard game and became the first Redskins quarterback with consecutive 350-yard games since Jay Schroeder in 1986. He had 375 last week against Green Bay.Reed had 10 catches for 95 yards after missing most of the first half when he injured his left shoulder leaping for a pass over his head in the end zone.Prescott was 17 of 24 for a season-low 195 yards and one touchdown, a toe-tapper to Terrance Williams . He had eight carries for 39 yards, including a career-long 18-yarder. Dez Bryant led Dallas with 72 yards on five catches.BACK TO THE PACKUndrafted rookie running back Robert Kelley of the Redskins was held to 37 yards on 14 carries a week after getting a career-high 137 yards with three touchdowns against the Packers. He was averaging more than 100 yards per game the previous three.SUN FIELDThe late-afternoon sun shining through the glass doors on the west side of the stadium was an issue in the opener when Dallas tight end Jason Witten admitted that the glare contributed to a pass he dropped in the New York Giants 20-19 win.Cousins had to battle it during a second-quarter drive that ended in the second of Dustin Hopkins two missed field goals: a 55-yarder.Prescott threw away from the sun to Williams for the touchdown on the subsequent possession, and the glare wasnt a factor after that.UP NEXTRedskins: Washington gets the 10-day break before the second of three straight road games in Arizona on Dec. 4. The trip ends with another crucial NFC East game at Philadelphia on Dec. 11.Cowboys: Itll be a regular seven-day week with a visit to Minnesota next Thursday. Then Dallas gets the longer break before a Dec. 11 visit to the New York Giants that is likely to be a battle of the top two teams in the division.---For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL---Follow Schuyler Dixon on Twitter at https://twitter.com/apschuyler ' ' '