The U.S.'s Olympic team isn't the only team from America that continues to struggle with their less-heralded international competition.
In the Pan Am Games opener, the United States blew a seven point second half lead to fall to Uruguay Wednesday night, 81-72.
Although it came in a loss, D.J. White led the U.S. with 14 points and nine rebounds.
The loss to Uruguay is disappointing at best for the U.S. Uruguay - a nation of 3.3 million people - is more of a football and rugby country than basketball. To give you an idea, there is only one Uruguayan basketball player in the NBA, Esteban Batista of the Atlanta Hawks.
The States will try and rebound from last night's loss when they play Panama tonight at 7:45 ET. If you have ESPN Deportes, consider yourself lucky.
