As Team USA Basketball prepared for Beijing 2008 they were given a new moniker: "The Reedem Team". It is actually a pretty apt way to sum up America's belief system about the world at large (especially when it comes to basketball). You see Americans are sports rebels. Americans spurned the world's most popular game, Soccer. We even spurned its hillbilly cousin Rugby when Walter Camp had his moment of inspiration. We decided we were too good to play cricket, with the...