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1. Auburn's triumph over Oregon in the BCS National Championship game was the SEC's ____ straight national title.
4th
5th
6th
7th
 
2. Perhaps 37 days between games is a wee bit too long, as it took the Oregon and Auburn offenses a little while to get going. They combined for this many points in the first quarter:
0
3
6
7
 
3. New England's Wes Welker fired the most subtle kill shot of all time against the Jets this week, making multiple references to this during a press conference:
Rex Ryan's weight
Spygate
how Mark Sanchez sucks
feet
 
4. With 601 career saves, Trevor Hoffman hung it up this week. After spending most of his career with the Padres, Hoffman spent his final seasons with:
Milwaukee
Atlanta
Florida
San Francisco
 
5. After his former team, Cleveland, got eviscerated by the Lakers 112-57, LeBron James tweeted that the Cavs' loss was:
hilarious
depressing
karma
unfortunate
 
6. And perhaps showing that that word does not mean what he thinks it does, LeBron then missed Miami's game against the _______ where the Heat suffered their worst defeat of the season.
Bulls
Clippers
Lakers
Nuggets
 
7. We haven't been able to pile on the Heat much lately during this winning streak, so let us rejoice that Miami suffered their third straight loss (and second straight game without LeBron) against the:
Bulls
Clippers
Lakers
Nuggets
 
8. Some good news came from a pinkslip as the recently deposed head coach of this team donated all of the team's memorabilia that he owned to charity:
Carolina Panthers
Michigan Wolverines
Cleveland Browns
Pittsburgh Panthers
 
9. One of the coaches mentioned above found new employment quickly, introduced this week as the new coach of the Denver Broncos:
Carolina Panthers
Michigan Wolverines
Cleveland Browns
Pittsburgh Panthers
 
10. College basketball will have a new #1 team in the land as Duke fell at the hands of this ACC rival:
North Carolina
Florida State
Virginia
Wake Forest
 
11. That new #1 won't be any of these teams, three of whom lost this weekend. Who escaped?
Missouri
Notre Dame
Purdue
San Diego St.
 
12. It was thoughtful of the Steelers to spot the Ravens a ___-point lead before eventually taking control of the game in the second half:
10
13
14
17
 
13. An assistant manager at a McDonald's restaurant was fired after letting a customer in to use the restroom after hours. She was later rehired because the customer turned out to be this NFL running back:
Adrian Peterson
Arian Foster
Marshawn Lynch
Chris Johnson
 
14. A power-hungry referee (from Minnesota!) doled out ____ technical fouls to the Timberwolves in ____ seconds in their game against the Spurs:
5, 10
5, 30
4, 20
6, 20
 
15. If you're the Atlanta Falcons, the only bright spot in that shellacking from the Packers was a kickoff return by Eric Weems that totaled this many yards:
99
100
101
102
 
16. This team backed up the money truck to the house of Rafael Soriano, luring him away from the Tampa Bay Rays for a three-year deal worth $35 million:
Cubs
Red Sox
Yankees
Dodgers
 
17. Add up the seed numbers of the teams playing in each conference championship game and you've got this as a total:
10
16
6
13
 
18. Best wishes to this recent MLB award winner who spent most of the week in the hospital with pneumonia:
Joey Votto
Josh Hamilton
Roy Halladay
Buster Posey
 
19. In NBA news that does not involve the Heat, the rumor mill has been working overtime regarding news of Denver's Carmelo Anthony eventually being traded to this team:
New York
New Jersey
Dallas
Miami
 
20. This division is not represented in the conference championships:
AFC East
NFC North
AFC North
NFC South
 




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