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NFL black eye #1: Pro football labor talks got shot to hell on Friday by what sequence of events?
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Owners declared lockout, then players union decertified
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Players union decertified, then owners declared lockout
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Players voted to strike, then owners declared lockout
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Owners declared lockout, then players union decertified
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NFL black eye #2: Video of this NFL QB dancing....curiously in Rio hit the internet. Much mocking ensued.
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Tom Brady
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Drew Brees
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Phillip Rivers
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Eli Manning
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NFL black eye #3: In the next NFL season, whenever that is, this retired athlete announced his intentions to return:
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Brett Favre
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Tiki Barber
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Curtis Martin
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Shawn Alexander
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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:
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Washington
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Pittsburgh
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Chicago
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Anaheim
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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:
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Georgia Tech
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Providence
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Mississippi State
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Texas Tech
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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:
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Chicago
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Los Angeles
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Sacramento
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Golden State
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A fractured rib will sideline Zack Greinke for the beginning of the baseball season. How did Zack hurt himself?
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Pick-up basketball game
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Fell while mountain biking
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Hit by car while rollerblading
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All we'll say is the guy from the Allstate "Mayhem" commercials was seen leaving the area
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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:
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Adrian Gonzalez
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Carlos Gonzalez
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Joe Mauer
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Mark Teixeira
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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:
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4 games, $1 million
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1 game, $500,000
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3 games, $750,000
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2 games, $250,000
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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:
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Panthers
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Avalanche
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Bruins
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Canucks
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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?
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Georgetown-Connecticut
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St. Johns-Rutgers
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Villanova-South Florida
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Rutgers-Seton Hall
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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?
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Elgin Baylor
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Moses Malone
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Karl Malone
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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:
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Miami
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Maryland
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Clemson
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NC State
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"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:
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George Karl
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Stan Van Gundy
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Erik Spoelstra
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Doc Rivers
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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:
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Al Michaels
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Phil Simms
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Cris Collinsworth
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Mike Tirico
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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:
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Alabama
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Auburn
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USC
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Texas
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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:
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Cal
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Arizona State
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Washington State
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USC
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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:
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Dartmouth
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Yale
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Columbia
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Brown
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If you were in ___________, then you were not in the correct location to enjoy the __________ conference tournament over the weekend:
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Atlanta / ACC
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Indianapolis / Big 10
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Kansas City / Big 12
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New York City / Big East
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Sweet fancy Moses! This team went 22 for 70 in the process of getting smoked 87-56 by Boston on Sunday:
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Bucks
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Packers
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76ers
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Blazers
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Milwaukee's score was very amusing to this college team who scored 36 points in their Big Ten tournament game, and won:
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Wisconsin
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Michigan State
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Penn State
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Ohio State
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This conference placed an inexplicable 11 teams in the NCAA Tournament:
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Big 12
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Big East
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ACC
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Big Ten
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It's tears and the NIT for three of these teams, whose bubble was burst by the selection committee. Who made it in?
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St. Mary's
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Harvard
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VCU
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Cleveland St.
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If you've got a number one seed in the NCAA Tournament, take a step forward. Whoa, not so fast:
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Notre Dame
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Kansas
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Duke
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Ohio St.
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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:
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Clemson
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UAB
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Missouri
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USC
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