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1. It was a bad week for starting point guards on ranked teams. This school suspended its starting PG Tyshawn Taylor indefinitely for an undisclosed violation of team rules:
Pittsburgh
Kansas
Notre Dame
Purdue
 
2. When starting point guard Chris Wright broke his non-shooting hand in a game during the week, the air went out of this school's season:
Georgetown
Arizona
Wisconsin
Florida
 
3. The revolving door at the #1 ranking in college basketball continues as Duke fell at the hands of this ACC rival:
North Carolina
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Clemson
 
4. Meanwhile, the carnage among top-ranked teams continued as number 5 Texas ventured into ___________ and came away with a conference loss:
Norman
Boulder
Ames
Waco
 
5. We don't pay enough attention to basketball played out west, but we were smart enough to tune into Saturday's Top 10 matchup between BYU and San Diego State. What was the outcome?
BYU won at home
SDSU won at home
BYU won on the road
SDSU won on the road
 
6. Down goes Occidental! Down goes Occidental! The Tigers' 46-45 loss to this school during the week ended a 310-game conference losing streak:
San Jose State
UC Santa Barbara
Cal Tech
Pepperdine
 
7. This rather unheralded player turned in one of the signature performances of the season, racking up 52 points in a losing effort this week:
Marshon Brooks
Charles Jenkins
Donald Sims
JaJuan Johnson
 
8. This Week in Violations, Part I: Which Big East coach will have to have to sit for three games next season as a result of recruiting violations?
Rick Pitino
Jim Boeheim
Jim Calhoun
John Thompson III
 
9. This Week in Violations, Part II: Meanwhile, The Man has accused both football and men's basketball at this big-time sports school with wrongdoing:
Tennessee
Texas
Kansas State
Stanford
 
10. St. Louis failed to reach accord with Albert Pujols this week. This MLB figure gave his two cents worth, calling the $30 million per year Pujols is seeking "asinine".
Cardinals skipper Tony LaRussa
MLB commissioner Bud Selig
Red Sox GM Theo Epstein
White Sox GM Ken Williams
 
11. Although he didn't mention him by name, Hank Steinbrenner took a shot at Derek Jeter by saying "some Yankees" were too busy doing this after winning the 2009 World Series to focus on a repeat:
counting their millions
hanging out with Charlie Sheen
sleeping around
building mansions
 
12. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Carmelo Anthony to the Knicks. Big whoop. Quick, name the third team involved in the deal between Denver and New York:
Golden State
Minnesota
Charlotte
Houston
 
13. We had to double and triple check the 'Melo deal to make sure that we weren't traded. Of the approximately 92 players involved in the deal, who didn't go anywhere?
Nene
Wilson Chandler
Chauncey Billups
Danilo Galinari
 
14. After sorting out the Carmelo Anthony trade, Denver beat the Grizzlies despite only suiting up this many players for that game:
7
8
9
10
 
15. The face of the Utah Jazz has changed dramatically in the last few weeks. First, long-time coach Jerry Sloan retired. This week, the franchise traded Deron Williams, its most visible star, to this East coast team:
Philadelphia
Charlotte
Washington
New Jersey
 
16. Meanwhile, ___________ and a first round pick were traded to the Cavs for Mo Williams and Jamario Moon:
Jeff Green
Derek Fisher
Baron Davis
OJ Mayo
 
17. John Elway tweeted this week that the Broncos have agreed to a contract extension for this gentleman:
Tim Tebow
Champ Bailey
Kyle Orton
Brandon Lloyd
 
18. Meanwhile, this high-ish profile tight end was kicked to the curb by his team:
Jeremy Shockey
Vernon Davis
Todd Heap
Greg Olsen
 
19. Fans of this MLB hurler and his team were dealt a blow this week as the pitcher injured his arm and will have to go undergo Tommy John surgery:
Adam Wainwright
Josh Beckett
Ubaldo Jimenez
Javier Lopez
 
20. Meanwhile, this player on a rival team thoroughly denied that he was making fun of the injury, when we was caught apparently singing about it:
Buster Posey
Jimmy Rollins
Hanley Ramirez
Jonny Gomes
 
21. Five players from this team skipped a morning practice in protest of their head coach:
Cavaliers
Pistons
Warriors
Raptors
 
22. Tiger Woods, who we should probably stop caring about so much, was upset in the first round of the WGC Match Play Championship this week by which 16th seed player?
Ian Poulter
Thomas Bjorn
Henrik Stenson
Ryan Moore
 
23. OPJ pours one out for Hall of Famer Duke Snider, who was most closely associated with this franchise:
Dodgers
Giants
Yankees
Red Sox
 
24. This NASCAR driver ended a long winless skid at Sunday's Sprint Cup race in Phoenix:
Jimmie Johnson
Ryan Harvick
Jeff Gordon
Carl Edwards
 
25. If you watched the Oscars (and if you did, take our quiz!), you missed this team knocking off the Miami Heat, which is obviously better than any awards ceremony:
Lakers
Celtics
Bulls
Knicks
 




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