After three galling losses in major international tournaments in the last four years, the United States finally has a gold medal in what is often called "the national pastime."

Losers of five consecutive games, the Giants are coming off a galling 31-7 loss to the Redskins.

Payne Stewart, after a pair of galling losses in the early 90's, sprinted for the parking lot.

And surely Mike Milbury of the Islanders wishes he had maintained control for one second longer during a galling loss in Anaheim on Friday night.

The mistakes added up to one particularly galling loss.

This is no excuse for Spain, which once again tried to get by on style points rather than on grit, just as Italy had done in a galling loss last Tuesday.

John Starks brought his gadgets, fixed things just so and enabled the Knicks to sneak out of Madison Square Garden yesterday without a galling loss.

They had known they must surmount near disaster time and again, accept galling losses, submissions and humiliations.

It was a galling loss for the Pacers, who had allowed a shorthanded Knicks team to take over the series without Patrick Ewing.

After a particularly galling loss to the Redskins in the 80's, he famously destroyed a folding chair.