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| 1. | Soccer fans worldwide will keep an eye on the recovery of this soccer star, whose torn Achilles' tendon will threaten his participation in the upcoming World Cup: | ||
| Landon Donovan | |||
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David Beckham | ||
| Theirry Henry | |||
| Ronaldinho | |||
| 2. | In a trade that we guarantee will never, ever, ever happen, rumors of a swap of these two baseball all-stars were the talk of the internet this week: | ||
| David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez | |||
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Albert Pujols and Ryan Howard | ||
| Jim Thome and Matt Holliday | |||
| Jimmy Rollins and Derek Jeter | |||
| 3. | You may not know the name Lance Mackey, but you should. Mackey proved once again this week that he is *the* man when he: | ||
| Swam the Atlantic Ocean unaided | |||
| Completed a solo around-the-world balloon flight | |||
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Won his fourth straight Iditarod | ||
| Completed his 80th marathon in as many days | |||
| 4. | The hit that this NHL big-shot delivered on Brian Campbell which will sideline the Blackhawk for 7-8 weeks earned the star an ejection and two game suspension: | ||
| Sidney Crosby | |||
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Alexander Ovechkin | ||
| Jarome Iginla | |||
| Tim Thomas | |||
| 5. | This basketball legend became majority owner of a sports team this week: | ||
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Michael Jordan | ||
| Magic Johnson | |||
| Larry Bird | |||
| Isaiah Thomas | |||
| 6. | Cleveland Browns cast-off Derek Anderson has found a home with this team, itself undergoing unstable quarterback times as of late: | ||
| Seattle | |||
| Pittsburgh | |||
| Washington | |||
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Arizona | ||
| 7. | Don't do drugs, kids - and if you do, make sure that you do them exactly once, while holding a highly visible position in sports, and then apologize profusely, and everything will be OK. Just ask Texas Ranger skipper Ron Washington, who admitted this week to testing positive for: | ||
| Marijuana | |||
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Cocaine | ||
| Meth | |||
| PEDs | |||
| 8. | Post-MNF Tony Kornheiser is increasingly cantankerous Tony Kornheiser. Having incurred the wrath of ESPN for criticizing Hannah Storm, the PTI host is now feuding with which sports notable? | ||
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Lance Armstrong | ||
| Charles Barkley | |||
| John Elway | |||
| Troy Aikman | |||
| 9. | The sudden off-season implosion of the Oregon football program forced the resignation of: | ||
| Head coach Chip Kelly | |||
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Athletic director Mike Bellotti | ||
| University president Richard W. Lariviere | |||
| Bellotti and Lariviere | |||
| 10. | Our long national nightmare is over! Players from this sporting league and its management agreed on a collective bargaining agreement and will not strike next season: | ||
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MLS | ||
| WNBA | |||
| MLL | |||
| UFL | |||
| 11. | The NFL competition committee is examining changes meant to address which contentious issue? | ||
| Head injuries | |||
| Preceived over-protection of quarterbacks | |||
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Overtime | ||
| Signal stealing | |||
| 12. | This team is now shopping for a new closer as their guy will miss the entire season due to needing elbow surgery | ||
| Chicago White Sox | |||
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Minnesota Twins | ||
| Oakland A's | |||
| Boston Red Sox | |||
| 13. | Pitching phenom Stephen Strasburg will start the year at this level of play: | ||
| A | |||
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AA | ||
| AAA | |||
| The Natinals starting rotation | |||
| 14. | Hoping that the grass is greener on the other side, this struggling college hoops program fired its head coach this week: | ||
| North Carolina State | |||
| Arizona | |||
| Colorado State | |||
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Seton Hall | ||
| 15. | If you traveled to this location hoping to see some first-round NCAA action in person, then boy were you out of luck: | ||
| Providence | |||
| Buffalo | |||
| New Orleans | |||
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Salt Lake City | ||
| 16. | We hope that you completed your NIT tournament bracket before action started. If you did, you most likely favored the tournament's #1 seeds, which include all of the following except for: | ||
| Illinois | |||
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St. John's | ||
| Virginia Tech | |||
| Mississippi State | |||
| 17. | If your team didn't qualify for the NCAA or the NIT, then perhaps they were lucky enough to be selected for this 3rd-tier tournament: | ||
| National Postseason Tournament | |||
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College Basketball Inviational | ||
| American Basketball Classic | |||
| The Certificate of Participation Tournament | |||
| 18. | If your team didn't qualify for the NCAA or the NIT or the College Basketball Invitational, then perhaps it was lucky enough to be selected for this 4th-tier tournament: | ||
| DicksSportingGoods.com Basketball Invitational | |||
| CapitolOne.com Roundball Classic | |||
| Spike TV Hoops Exhibition | |||
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CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament | ||
| 19. | The NCAA play-in game was decided by: | ||
| Winthrop beating Arkansas-Pine Bluff | |||
| Vermont beating East Tennessee State | |||
| East Tennessee State beating Vermont | |||
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Arkansas-Pine Bluff beating Winthrop | ||
| 20. | How many minutes were required to decide the highly entertaining first-round game between Florida and BYU? | ||
| 40 | |||
| 45 | |||
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50 | ||
| 60 | |||
| 21. | Old Dominion was the first victor in the tournament. A team from which conference was on the losing end? | ||
| SEC | |||
| Mountain West | |||
| ACC | |||
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Big East | ||
| 22. | After the first two rounds, the big bad Big East, which had 8 teams qualify for the tournament, had this many teams remaining: | ||
| 8 | |||
| 4 | |||
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2 | ||
| 3 | |||
| 23. | Among the conferences with at least four teams in the tournament, the conference with the best winning percentage was: | ||
| ACC | |||
| Big 12 | |||
| SEC | |||
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Big 10 | ||
| 24. | A team from this state beat a #1 seed during the weekend: | ||
| Kansas | |||
| Virginia | |||
| Texas | |||
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Iowa | ||
| 25. | The following was not a #1 seed in the NCAA women's basketball tournament: | ||
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Notre Dame | ||
| Conneticut | |||
| Stanford | |||
| Tennessee | |||
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