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1.	Baseball wins! A loss on Friday snapped this team's 9 game winning streak:
		Los Angeles
		Atlanta
		Cincinnati
		Milwaukee

2.	Meanwhile, a win on Sunday ended this team's 10 game skid:
		Baltimore
		Florida
		Kansas City
		Houston

3.	The ping of aluminum bats means that it's time for the NCAA baseball tournament again. This school's nine is the top seed for the tournament:
		Fresno State
		Cal
		Arizona State
		Miami

4.	Say hello to your 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse champions:
		North Carolina
		Syracuse
		Princeton
		Duke

5.	Making the media rounds, free agent-to-be LeBron James gave an interview to that noted basketball enthusiast Larry King(?!), where he may have hinted that this team has an edge over the others:
		Knicks
		Bulls
		Cavaliers
		Nets

6.	Hoping he can return to the form he showed with the Marlins in the mid-'00s, this team traded for Dontrelle Willis after the Tigers had designated him for assignment:
		Pirates
		Diamondbacks
		Dodgers
		Royals

7.	The headlines stolen by the imperfect game, you may have forgotten that Ken Griffey, Jr. announced his retirement this week. Which of these teams did he not play for in his career?
		Mariners
		Reds
		White Sox
		A's

8.	You know that the principles in the perfect-game-that-wasn't were Detroit pitcher Armando Galarraga and umpire Jim Joyce. But can you remember which Cleveland player was called safe on the play?
		Matt LaPorta
		Jhonny Peralta
		Jason Donald
		Austin Kearns

9.	Earlier in the week, there was another umpire/pitcher controversy, as the home plate umpire ejected said pitcher for yelling on the mound, even though the exclamations weren't made toward the official?
		Andy Petitte
		Chris Carpenter
		Billy Wagner
		Roy Oswalt

10.	All major league managers who weren't fired this week, take a step forward. Not so fast:
		Brad Mills
		Dave Trembley
		Manny Acta
		A.J. Hinsch

11.	In a move that can only signify one of two things (though we're not entirely sure what those two things are), the GM of this NBA franchise abruptly stepped down this week:
		Washington
		New Jersey
		Cleveland
		Dallas

12.	What was unusual about Saturday's Belmont Stakes?
		The race was held outside the state of New York
		A problem with the starting gate necessitated a race restart
		Neither the Kentucky Derby nor Preakness winner were present
		The race was held at night

13.	Which horse won the Belmont?
		Ice Box
		First Dude
		Drosselmeyer
		Uptowncharlybrown

14.	The nationalities of the finalists in the French Open men's singles championship were:
		Spanish and Swiss
		Spanish and Swedish
		Swiss and Argentine
		British and American

15.	Meanwhile, two women from these two countries vied for the women's singles final:
		Australia and Italy
		USA and Belgium
		Russia and Serbia
		Slovakia and Canada

16.	The apparent loss of Didier Drogba and Rio Ferdinand deal serious blows to the hopes of these two countries as the opening of the World Cup nears:
		Germany and Spain
		Australia and Brazil
		Neterlands and Cameroon
		Ivory Coast and England

17.	Fight night returned to this sporting venue after 34 years when a boxing match was held Saturday night at:
		Los Angeles Forum
		The Astrodome
		Fenway Park
		Yankee Stadium

18.	The good news: Colorado's Ubaldo Jimenez won his 11th game on Sunday. The bad news: in beating Arizona, the Rockies' pitcher's ERA jumped to 0.93 as his scoreless inning streak stopped at:
		45
		19
		33
		28

19.	UCLA coaching legend John Wooden died this week. Which of the following was not true of the Wizard?
		Member of Basketball Hall of Fame as both player and coach
		10 championships in 12 years
		Coached UCLA to 88 consecutive victories
		Most career victories

20.	An NBA Finals record was set in the first two games of the Lakers-Celtics series. What was it?
		Largest television ratings for a game
		Most 3-pointers made by a player in a game
		Most combined free throw attempts in a single game
		Greatest number of bench player minutes in a game

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