1. | Strange Week with the Ravens, Part I: Rookie Sergio Kindle fell down two flights of stairs. The resulting most notable fracture of which body part will force him to miss training camp? | ||
Patella | |||
Collarbone | |||
Ankle | |||
Skull | |||
2. | Strange Week with the Ravens, Part II: Former Alabama defensive tackle Terrance Cody was booted from camp because of concerns about his: | ||
Contract status | |||
Vision | |||
Weight | |||
Surly attitude | |||
3. | Strange Week with the Ravens, Part III: The bad news continued to pile up for Baltimore, who lost one of their starting ____________ for the season: | ||
Linebackers | |||
Cornerbacks | |||
Safeties | |||
Wide receivers | |||
By way of explanation.....
Hasta la vista, Dominique Foxworth |
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4. | Pad-gate! Dez Bryant didn't win any supporters among the Cowboys, as he refused to carry the pads of which other Dallas player after practice? | ||
Jason Witten | |||
Miles Austin | |||
Roy Williams | |||
Patrick Crayton | |||
5. | If you root for the __________, then either congratulations or we're sorry (depending on how superstitious you are), as your team was at the top of the ESPN Training Camp Edition Power Rankings: | ||
Colts | |||
Saints | |||
Cowboys | |||
Vikings | |||
6. | Meanwhile, this more unorthodox choice was at the top of the SI.com PRs: | ||
Bengals | |||
Dolphins | |||
Falcolns | |||
Jets | |||
7. | For its All-Star Game, MLS fielded a team of its own star players, which were taken to the woodshed by which European club team? | ||
AC Milan | |||
Manchester United | |||
Real Madrid | |||
Arsenal | |||
8. | The 85th and most recent no-hitter of 2010 was thrown by a member of the: | ||
Rangers | |||
Rays | |||
Braves | |||
Giants | |||
9. | These two MLB teams which also play in NFL cities nearly logged a football score on Monday night, as the scoreboard read 17-0 at one point: | ||
Philadelphia / New York | |||
Oakland / Seattle | |||
Minnesota / Kansas City | |||
Atlanta / Washington | |||
10. | In a year filled with weird baseball injuries, Florida's Chris Coghlan joins the list as he will spend some time on the DL after injuring his knee doing what? | ||
Jumping on home plate after hitting a walk-off home run | |||
Stretching his knee so as not to hurt himself | |||
Delivering a shaving cream pie to a teammate during a postgame interview | |||
Slipping on the dugout steps | |||
11. | One of the NFL defensive greats of the 1970s who was known by this nicknamed died this week: | ||
Mauler | |||
Diesel | |||
The Assassin | |||
Uptown | |||
By way of explanation.....
RIP Jack Tatum |
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12. | OPJ was also saddened by news of the death of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright. The ruling in the death of Wright was: | ||
Homicide | |||
Suicide | |||
Accidental overdose | |||
Not made official, as the body has yet to been found | |||
13. | This team decided that having just one wide receiver with their own reality show wasn't enough, and signed Terrell Owens to a one year deal. | ||
Buffalo | |||
Dallas | |||
Cincinnati | |||
NY Jets | |||
14. | Which standout pitcher recorded 13Ks and 0 ERs in 9 innings on Tuesday, and yet bewilderingly got no decision: | ||
Ubaldo Jimenez | |||
Tim Hudson | |||
Cliff Lee | |||
C.C. Sabathia | |||
15. | The newsmaking coach of which World Cup team was given the heave-ho by his national team this week? | ||
England | |||
Argentina | |||
US | |||
France | |||
16. | Days before he inked his contract with the Broncos, Tim Tebow signed an endorsement deal with which company? | ||
FedEx | |||
Jockey | |||
Campbell's Soup | |||
Kellogg's | |||
17. | You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Each of the below was named to the top 10 of Sports Illustrated's 25 Most Hated Teams of All Time, except for: | ||
1986 University of Miami football | |||
1974-75 Philadelphia Flyers | |||
1983-84 Georgetown basketball | |||
2007 New England Patriots | |||
By way of explanation.....
The Hoyas of Thompson and Ewing checked in at #23 |
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18. | Millionaire lughead Albert Haynesworth second year with Washington got off to a predictably rocky start, as he: | ||
Failed two conditioning tests | |||
Hit an assistant coach | |||
Make lewd remarks to a female reporter | |||
Assailed the coaching staff on Twitter | |||
19. | Congratulations, Miami Heat Season Ticket Staff! The Heat sold the last of the season tickets this week, and as a result: | ||
You are all featured in a local TV spot for the team | |||
You all receive a 25% bonus | |||
You have been named Special Team Vice Presidents | |||
You're all fired | |||
20. | Fraction time! The Rockies scored _____ of their 17 runs with two outs in the 8th innings against Chicago on Friday night: | ||
12/17ths | |||
4/17ths | |||
16/17ths | |||
10/17ths | |||
21. | Roy Oswalt's first pitching effort as a member of the Phillies resulted in: | ||
Loss to the Nats | |||
Shutout victory over the Mets | |||
No-decision vs the Braves | |||
Win over the Rockies | |||
22. | How much of Sam Bradford's 6 year, $78 million contract came in the form of guaranteed money (hint: it is slightly more than double the yearly salary of the OPJ staff)? | ||
$15 million | |||
$50 million | |||
$65 million | |||
$37 million | |||
By way of explanation.....
The $50 milliion in guaranteed coin is a record |
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23. | Disgraced former Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli will seek a degree of redemption has he will walk on to which university's football program? | ||
Virginia Tech | |||
Ole Miss | |||
South Carolina | |||
Florida State | |||
24. | A whole lot of fruitless left turns finally paid off at Pocono as this driver took the checkered flag to end a 64 race drought: | ||
Greg Biffle | |||
Mark Martin | |||
Jeff Gordon | |||
Kevin Harvick | |||