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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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 




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