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1. "I won't be here next year, so I just want to enjoy myself.... I just know I'm not going to be here. When the season is over, I will see where I'm at." Which highly visible MLB star intrigued the press with this quote during the week?
Chipper Jones
Albert Pujols
Alex Rodriguez
Manny Ramirez
 
2. LaDanian Tomlinson's largely remarkable career with the San Diego Chargers is over following his release by the team this week. Each of the following was a milestone or record set by LT during his time with the 'Bolts, except for:
Most single season touchdowns
Most single season points
1998 all-purpose yardage leader
AP MVP in 2006
 
3. Coming into the weekend, the top four ranked men's basketball teams were:
  1. Kansas
  2. Kentucky
  3. Purdue
  4. Syracuse
Which suffered a defeat during the weekend?
1 only
1, 2 and 3
1 and 2 only
2 and 4 only
 
4. If it is your mission in life to use only products and services for which Tiger Woods is a spokesman, well, as of this week you should no longer:
Wear Nike shoes
Call via AT&T
Shave with a Gillette razor
Chug Gatorade
 
5. The resurgent Atlanta Hawks won in this western city for the first time in 17 years this week:
San Antonio
Denver
Salt Lake City
Portland
 
6. Let us all point and laugh at the ___________ who, playing at home, handed the New Jersey Nets their 6th win of the season Saturday.
Boston Celtics
Miami Heat
Chicago Bulls
Orlando Magic
 
7. Which men's college basketball program clinched at least a share of its sixth straight conference title this week?
Memphis
UCLA
Kansas
Florida
 
8. Pardon the Interruption's Tony Kornheiser was suspended for two weeks over comments he made concerning the wardrobe of which female sports broadcaster?
Hannah Storm
Rachel Nichols
Wendi Nix
Sage Steele
 
9. Which NBA star, traded within the past few weeks, confirmed his general uselessness by tearing his ACL and thereby ending his season?
Tracy McGrady
Josh Howard
Antawn Jamison
Brendan Haywood
 
10. Oh, Rich Rodriguez, the NCAA would like a word with you regarding infractions concerning:
Team practices
Academic eligibility
Improper recruiting
Payment to players
 
11. Always bizarre in what it chooses to care about, the NBA has ordered Caron Butler to stop doing what during games?
Wearing socks embroidered with a picture of his puppy
Tweeting
Speaking Spanish
Chewing on straws
 
12. A major college basketball record was broken this week, but few people are aware of it. Jarvis Vardano set the NCAA career blocked shots record this week. For which program does he play?
Memphis
Washington State
Mississippi State
Nevada
 
13. Speaking of records, Division II Philadelphia University coach Herb Magee went into the books this week as:
Winningest college basketball coach ever
Coach to lead the most schools to 20 win seasons
Coach to amass the greatest number of technical fouls
Only person ever to coach both men's and women's programs in the same year
 
14. Which former top 5 NBA draft pick was sent to D-League Dakota Wizards this week?
Andrea Bargnani
Hasheem Thabeet
Darko Milicic
LaMarcus Aldridge
 
15. Which country won the most overall medals at the Olympics?
Germany
Canada
Norway
USA
 
16. Which country won the most gold medals?
Germany
Canada
Norway
USA
 
17. This country's lone medal won was a gold medal:
Belarus
Great Britain
Slovakia
Japan
 
18. All you countries that won at least one medal at the games, please step forward. Not so fast,
Italy
Australia
Greece
Finland
 
19. Which was not a part of the post-gold medal game celebration that landed the Canadian women's hockey team in hot water?
The players smoked cigars
Players poured champagne into each other's mouths
One of the players tried to drive the zamboni
The players chanted anti-American slogans
 
20. Normally stellar Martin Brodeur was shaky in net for Team Canada for against the USA, so he was replaced for the rest of the tournament by:
Ed Belfour
Fred Braithwaite
Roberto Luongo
Marty Turco
 
21. Olympic hockey produced some blowouts. Which of the following was not one of them?
USA women 9-1 over Sweden
Canadian men 7-3 over Russia
USA men 6-1 over Finland
Canadian women 10-2 over Finland
 
22. Half of the pair which won ice dancing gold had this unusual surname:
Chastity
Virtue
Clemency
Fortitude
 
23. With the 2010 games completed, you'll have to pack away all your knowledge of how curling is played until 2014, when the next winter Olympics will be contested in this country:
Russia
Germany
Norway
Japan
 
24. The USA medaled in each of the following events, except for:
Freestyle skiing
Ice dancing
Men's halfpipe
Women's figure skating
 
25. One of the better stories to emerge from the Olympics was Canada's Joannie Rochette medaling in figure skating. Her bronze medal was commendable because:
Her coach quit at the beginning of the games
Her mother had died a few days prior
An extreme car accident months before the Olympics left her skating career in question
She had a terrible fall in the short program
 
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