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If your racing team kicked your sorry ass to the curb this week, then you have a surprising amount in common with this petulant NASCAR driver:
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Denny Hamlin
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Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
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Kurt Busch
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Tony Stewart
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Cheers to this year's Heisman winner, whose play guided the fortunes of the __________ this season:
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Cardinal
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Tigers
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Badgers
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Bears
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Also on-hand to see Robert Griffin III win the stiff-arm trophy were each of these following finalists, except for:
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Tyron Mathieu
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Andre Luck
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Montee Ball
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Case Keenum
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4.
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Your 2011 Sports Illustrated Sportsman and Sportswoman of the year are:
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A swimmer and a gymnast
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Both basketball coaches
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A football player and a softball player
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Both soccer players
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You know that Albert Pujols signed a megastupendous deal with the Los Angeles Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles this week. But the Angels also secured the services of a highly sought-after free agent:
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Pitcher
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Shortstop
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Outfielder
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Third baseman
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The MLB winter meetings were marked with lots of subtle little deals. This team saw fit to shower Mr. Jose Reyes with $106 million over the next six years:
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Texas
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Chicago Cubs
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Royals
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Miami
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Also donning the weird new Miami Marlins uniforms next year will be this prize pitcher:
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Roy Oswalt
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Javier Vasquez
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Mark Buehrle
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Hiroki Kuroda
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We learned this week that a well-known baseball player tested positive for PEDs and now faces a 50 game suspension. Say, that player couldn't have been recently-announced NL MVP Ryan Braun, right? Right??
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Right, it was Matt Holliday
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Right, it was Ryan Howard
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Right, it was Dustin Pedroia
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Wrong
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This struggling NFL franchise was kneecapped further when its starting tight end was suspended for the rest of the season for violating the league's substance abuse policy:
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Tampa Bay
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Washington
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Kansas City
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Indianapolis
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Congratulations to these smarty pants, ranked in the college basketball AP poll for the first time in history:
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Harvard
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Princeton
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Yale
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Cornell
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This many players were handed suspensions by their teams as a result of a fracas between Xavier and Cincinnati:
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4
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6
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8
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10
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College basketball delivered a thriller on Saturday as Indiana knocked off #1 Kentucky thanks to a:
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Blocked shot at the buzzer
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10-1 run to end regulation
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Pair of free throws in double overtime
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3 pointer at the buzzer
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The same day as Kentucky lost, #2 Ohio State was also knocked off at the hands of this team:
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Syracuse
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Kansas
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UCLA
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Alabama
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Don't drink and drive, kids. Just ask this now former EPSN analyst, booted by Bristol after driving while intoxicated:
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Barry Melrose
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Trent Dilfer
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Stephen A. Smith
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Matthew Barnaby
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NHL bigshots announced this measure that will greatly change the game:
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A team quota of non-US players
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Season-long bans for concussion-inducing hits
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Elimination of an entire round of playoffs
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Realignment into four conferences
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If you acted fast then week, then you could have been among the public shareholders of this sports franchise, which re-issued stock:
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Green Bay Packers
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New York Yankees
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L.A. Galaxy
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Golden State Warriors
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Thanks to a new slate of team signed to the conference this week, the Big East will have nationwide reach. Which of the following is not one of the new entrants?
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Boise State
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Central Florida
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Navy
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San Diego State
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All good things must come to an end, and thus this team put an end to the Bruins' 15 game win streak this week:
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Jets
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Penguins
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Red Wings
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Ducks
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Okay, so we all know that the trade that would have sent Chris Paul from the Hornets to the Lakers was axed by the NBA, blah blah blah. Do you remember the third team involved in the deal?
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Houston
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Dallas
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San Antonio
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Memphis
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When the Chris Paul kerfuffle was finally killed with fire, the Lakers had sent Kardashian boy-toy Lamar Odom to:
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Denver
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Milwaukee
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Dallas
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Portland
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Navy's triumph over Army was their _____ consecutive win in the series:
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8th
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9th
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10th
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11th
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Network cameras caught this NFL signalcaller and a team assistant coach having a seriously heated sideline argument during the fourth quarter on Sunday:
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Drew Brees
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Tom Brady
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Eli Manning
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Aaron Rodgers
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Calls for suspension rained down after this Steeler delivered a helmet-to-helmet hit on Browns QB Colt McCoy on Thursday night:
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James Harrison
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Troy Polamalu
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Lamarr Woodley
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Will Allen
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Hold up two fingers on each hand. Now, count. That's how many yards of offense this NFL team amassed in the first half on Sunday:
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Chicago
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Atlanta
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Kansas City
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San Francisco
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"The replay system has malfunctioned," a referee announced, thereby disallowing a challenge request during this game on Sunday
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Oakland-Green Bay
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Washington-New England
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Dallas-New York Giants
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Philadelphia-Miami
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