Rajon Rondo and the new Team USA will get a better taste of international competition this weekend.

It’s time to see how Team USA performs in a hostile environment, and time to see whether Kevin Durant can stop being too unselfish.

The Americans will face their first tough test Sunday when they play Spain, the defending world champions (ESPN3, 3 p.m. ET). But first they’ll go up against Lithuania on Saturday (ESPN and ESPN3, 3 p.m. ET) in a game that does not figure to stay close for very long.

Then again, strange things never cease to happen in international basketball, as Nenad Krstic learned Thursday. He spent the night in a Greek jail cell after throwing a chair during a nasty brawl in a Greece-Serbia friendly at the Acropolis Cup in Athens.

“Looked a little like Indiana and Detroit,” coach Mike Krzyzewski said after a brief practice Friday. “If we did it, more of us would have gone to jail. And I want to keep me and everyone else out of jails.”

Team USA is now listed on Internet wagering sites as a 3-4 favorite to win the world championship, while Spain is the second choice at 3-1. But one American staff member, who asked that he not be quoted by name, said in his opinion Spain should be considered the team to beat in Turkey.

So as we head into what should be, at the very least, an interesting weekend for Team USA, it’s time for some questions and answers on the state of the U.S. team:

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But who cares? I think he might be just as big a bust as Jamarcus.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens for allegedly lying to Congress about using steroids.

Clemens faces charges of obstruction of Congress, making false statements and perjury.

The former Major League baseball pitcher and his former trainer, Brian McNamee, testified under oath at a 2008 hearing before a House committee and contradicted each other about whether Clemens had used the banned substances. (more…)

From end zone to end zone, an NFL field is exactly 3,600 inches, and it’s easy enough for referees to spot a ball precisely when action stays within the bounds of play. But when players take the pigskin out of bounds, refs must watch where the 11-inch-long ball crossed the sideline and then approximate that spot 70 feet, 9 inches away, back near the middle of the field.

NFL brass thinks it can do better. (more…)

Jack Tatum, the former Oakland Raiders player who earned the nickname the Assassin for his brutal hits, none of them more devastating than a blow that left New England Patriots wide receiver Darryl Stingley paralyzed in 1978, died Tuesday in Oakland, Calif. He was 61. (more…)