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Just an FYI: Tressel was suspended Tuesday from coaching in Ohio State's first 2 games in 2011 and was fined $250,000. Unless it was changed in the last couple of days...
cambric 3/14/11 6:16 am

Answers:

1. NFL black eye #1: Pro football labor talks got shot to hell on Friday by what sequence of events?
Owners declared lockout, then players union decertified
Players union decertified, then owners declared lockout
Players voted to strike, then owners declared lockout
Owners declared lockout, then players union decertified
 
2. NFL black eye #2: Video of this NFL QB dancing....curiously in Rio hit the internet. Much mocking ensued.
Tom Brady
Drew Brees
Phillip Rivers
Eli Manning
 
3. NFL black eye #3: In the next NFL season, whenever that is, this retired athlete announced his intentions to return:
Brett Favre
Tiki Barber
Curtis Martin
Shawn Alexander
 
4. A quick check on the NHL shows that this team is catching fire at just the right time, having won eight in a row as of Sunday night:
Washington
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Anaheim
 
5. If you're the head coach at this NCAA basketball school, then congratulations! Unlike the coaches at the other three, you still have a job:
Georgia Tech
Providence
Mississippi State
Texas Tech
 
6. It was a lot of fun with all the crying, but the Heat were able to get off the schnide by vanquishing this foe to end their five game losing streak:
Chicago
Los Angeles
Sacramento
Golden State
 
7. A fractured rib will sideline Zack Greinke for the beginning of the baseball season. How did Zack hurt himself?
Pick-up basketball game
Fell while mountain biking
Hit by car while rollerblading
All we'll say is the guy from the Allstate "Mayhem" commercials was seen leaving the area
 
8. If you're looking for a good way to blow some of your hard-earned money, considering plunking down a few bucks for the newly-released MLB 11 The show, featuring this hitter on its cover:
Adrian Gonzalez
Carlos Gonzalez
Joe Mauer
Mark Teixeira
 
9. As punishment for failing to bring to light what he knew about his players breaking NCAA rules, Ohio State head sweater-vest Jim Tressel has been slapped with this suspension/fine combination:
4 games, $1 million
1 game, $500,000
3 games, $750,000
2 games, $250,000
 
10. One of the more talked-about events of the NHL season came when the Canadiens' Max Pacioretty was driven head-first into the penalty-box glass in the Habs game against the:
Panthers
Avalanche
Bruins
Canucks
 
11. The officials minding which Big East contest recused themselves for the remainder of the conference tournament after the committed several glaring errors during the game's final minutes?
Georgetown-Connecticut
St. Johns-Rutgers
Villanova-South Florida
Rutgers-Seton Hall
 
12. Kevin Love has become an unstoppable double-double machine, recording the stat in his 52nd consecutive game this week, surpassing the mark set by which legendary NBA big man?
Elgin Baylor
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Moses Malone
Karl Malone
 
13. An unbelievable finish in the ACC tournament saw this team overcome a 10 point deficit with 42 seconds left in regulation to win their game:
Miami
Maryland
Clemson
NC State
 
14. "I would render a guess ... that we won't be hearing from him for the rest of the season." NBA boss David Stern laid unto which NBA coach this subtle smack-down, after the coach was critical about the commish:
George Karl
Stan Van Gundy
Erik Spoelstra
Doc Rivers
 
15. In you were on the banks of the Ohio River on Saturday, you may have spotted this NFL announcer floating away, as the restaurant he ate at broke free from its pier and sailed down river:
Al Michaels
Phil Simms
Cris Collinsworth
Mike Tirico
 
16. Four players from this big-time NCAA football factory were kicked to the curb, dismissed from the team after they were arrested on robbery charges over the weekend:
Alabama
Auburn
USC
Texas
 
17. Clearly ticked off by a rival fan's taunting of "We got spirit, yes we do - we got spirit, how 'bout *you*?" the head coach for this Pac-10 school was suspended for a game in the tournament after getting into an altercation with said fan:
Cal
Arizona State
Washington State
USC
 
18. The Ivy League championship added an unexpected amount of excitement, as Princeton beat Harvard on a last-second shot on the ground of this Ivy campus:
Dartmouth
Yale
Columbia
Brown
 
19. If you were in ___________, then you were not in the correct location to enjoy the __________ conference tournament over the weekend:
Atlanta / ACC
Indianapolis / Big 10
Kansas City / Big 12
New York City / Big East
 
20. Sweet fancy Moses! This team went 22 for 70 in the process of getting smoked 87-56 by Boston on Sunday:
Bucks
Packers
76ers
Blazers
 
21. Milwaukee's score was very amusing to this college team who scored 36 points in their Big Ten tournament game, and won:
Wisconsin
Michigan State
Penn State
Ohio State
 
22. This conference placed an inexplicable 11 teams in the NCAA Tournament:
Big 12
Big East
ACC
Big Ten
 
23. It's tears and the NIT for three of these teams, whose bubble was burst by the selection committee. Who made it in?
St. Mary's
Harvard
VCU
Cleveland St.
 
24. If you've got a number one seed in the NCAA Tournament, take a step forward. Whoa, not so fast:
Notre Dame
Kansas
Duke
Ohio St.
 
25. This is the only team below not in one of those new-fangled play-in games where the winner gets a 12 or 11 seed in the main draw:
Clemson
UAB
Missouri
USC
 




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