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| 1. | Regarding a possible move from Sacramento to Anaheim, it was announced this week that the NBA Kings: | ||
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Will remain in Sacramento for at least one more year | ||
| Will remain in Sacramento indefinitely following the approval of a new stadium | |||
| Will play in Anaheim next year | |||
| Will relocate to Anaheim for the 2012-13 season | |||
| 2. | This NHL player's rookie card fetched $94,163 at an online sports memorabilia auction, the most ever paid for a piece of cardboard with a hockey player's face on it: | ||
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Wayne Gretzky | ||
| Alexander Ovechkin | |||
| Mario Lemieux | |||
| Sidney Crosby | |||
| 3. | This would be the team that handed Jered Weaver his first loss of the season after a perfect 6-0 April: | ||
| New York | |||
| Cleveland | |||
| Tampa Bay | |||
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Boston | ||
| 4. | All hail this year's NBA MVP, the ________ ever to win the award: | ||
| Shortest | |||
| Tallest | |||
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Youngest | ||
| Oldest | |||
| 5. | This recently restructured conference announce a new television contract that gives them the most valuable media outlet in all of college sports: | ||
| Big 12 | |||
| Big Ten | |||
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Pac 12 | ||
| Big East | |||
| 6. | There hasn't been a no-hitter thrown at any time in the last 15 years (wait, that might not be completely correct), and this week there were two. First, which of the following is true about the Twins' Francisco Liriano's no-hitter? | ||
| It came against the Red Sox | |||
| It came on his first start of the year | |||
| It came in a game in which he walked 10 batters | |||
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He came into the game with a 9.13 ERA | ||
| 7. | Meanwhile, total show-off Justin Verlander threw his second career no-hitter on Saturday against the: | ||
| Royals | |||
| Rangers | |||
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Blue Jays | ||
| Mariners | |||
| 8. | This member of the Pittsburgh Steelers made some...questionable comments about the death of Osama Bin Laden on Twitter: | ||
| Ben Roethlisburger | |||
| Hines Ward | |||
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Rashard Mendenall | ||
| Troy Polamalu | |||
| 9. | This up-and-coming college football power is being harassed by the NCAA for a number of minor infractions, including prospectives crashing on players' couches: | ||
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Boise State | ||
| TCU | |||
| Nevada | |||
| UConn | |||
| 10. | It's rare that the NBA Rookie of the Year is unanimous, but it was hardly a surprise that this dude walked away with achieved this distinction: | ||
| John Wall | |||
| Greg Monroe | |||
| DeMarcus Cousins | |||
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Blake Griffin | ||
| 11. | This Laker was sent to his room to think about what he had done after being suspended for Game 3 against the Mavericks for clotheslining J.J. Barea in the final minute of Game 2: | ||
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Ron Artest | ||
| Andrew Bynum | |||
| Lamar Odom | |||
| Kobe Bryant | |||
| 12. | The Red Sox and Angels played a long drawn-out game, ending at 2:45 am on Thursday morning. Which usual Sox starter yielded the winning runs? | ||
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Daisuke Matsuzaka | ||
| Josh Beckett | |||
| Clay Buchholz | |||
| Jon Lester | |||
| 13. | This ACC team has a head coaching vacancy after their long-time coach retired after 33 years at the helm: | ||
| Duke | |||
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Maryland | ||
| North Carolina | |||
| Virginia | |||
| 14. | The landscape of college basketball broadcasting changed this week with the sudden announcement that ___________ will be switching networks: | ||
| Digger Phelps | |||
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Gus Johnson | ||
| Jiim Nance | |||
| Clark Kellogg | |||
| 15. | The game of golf lost one of its all-time greats this week. Gone at the way too-young age of 54 is the three time Open Championship, two time Masters champion who hailed from: | ||
| England | |||
| South Africa | |||
| Mexico | |||
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Spain | ||
| 16. | Welcome to Sucktown, population: these two teams, who were both swept from their second round series: | ||
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Washington and Philadelphia | ||
| Washington and Nashville | |||
| Detroit and Philadelphia | |||
| Vancouver and San Jose | |||
| 17. | With the Bulls' series against the Hawks tied at a game apiece, MVP Derek Rose singlehandedly slobberknockered Atlanta for _______ points in Game 3: | ||
| 52 | |||
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44 | ||
| 41 | |||
| 39 | |||
| 18. | Say hey to your winner of the Kentucky Derby, | ||
| Nehro | |||
| Pants on Fire | |||
| Mucho Macho Man | |||
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Animal Kingdom | ||
| 19. | The frustrations continued for the Lakers and one of them took it out on poor J.J. Barea. Which two Lakers were tossed as the Mavs finished up the sweep? | ||
| Ron Artest and Lamar Odom | |||
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Andrew Bynum and Lamar Odom | ||
| Andrew Bynum and Ron Artest | |||
| Phil Jackson and Kobe Bryant (oh, how we wish this was the answer) | |||
| 20. | In one of the strangest statistical oddities ever, every American League game played on Sunday had one of the team scoring this many runs (they went 4-3 scoring that many): | ||
| 3 | |||
| 4 | |||
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5 | ||
| 6 | |||
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