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1.	This NFL team, on the verge of making the playoffs, still had to beg, beseech and threaten its fans to buy tickets for the team's final regular season game on Sunday:
		Cincinnati
		New York Giants
		Denver
		Tennessee

2.	This Venezuelan born MLB player got into hot water in his homeland, hit with a 66-game ban after he hit an umpire during a game there:
		Carlos Zambrano
		Bobby Abreu
		Magglio Ordonez
		Yorvit Torrealba

3.	Drew Brees throws the football really well. The New Orleans signalcaller surpassed Dan Marino's single season passing yardage record in the:
		3rd quarter against the Falcons
		4th quarter against the Falcons
		1st quarter against the Panthers
		2nd quarter against the Panthers

4.	This celebrity provided a fantastic opening segment for the season's final Monday Night Football game on Monday Night, which featured football:
		Steven Seagal
		Betty White
		Hugh Laurie
		Ryan Reynolds
		*By way of explanation.....* Dig:

5.	Eight members from each of these teams were named to the Pro Bowl:
		Packers and Ravens
		Broncos and Steelers
		Saints and Lions
		Patriots and 49ers
		*By way of explanation.....* Green Bay and Baltimore each had seven players

6.	Coming into Wednesday night, six Division I men's basketball teams were undefeated. That number was cut by a third by the end of the night. Louisville suffered its first lost of the year by losing to this Big East rival at home:
		St. John's
		Connecticut
		Georgetown
		Rutgers

7.	Shortly afterward, this unbeaten Big 10 school suffered its first L at the hands of Michigan State:
		Indiana
		Michigan
		Iowa
		Purdue

8.	Indiana, the answer to the previous question, nevertheless had a memorable week. Having already beaten #1 Kentucky earlier in the season, the Hoosiers rebounded from its first loss to beat this second ranked team later in the week:
		Kansas
		Duke
		Ohio State
		Syracuse

9.	This college coach stated that he won't coach past his current contract, which expires in 2017, and we tooooootallllly believe him:
		Jim Boeheim
		Mike Krzyzewski
		Rick Pitino
		John Callipari

10.	A failed two-point conversion at the end of the game was the margin of victory in Toledo's 42-41 Military Bowl victory over this service academy:
		Air Force
		Army
		Navy
		Coast Guard Academy

11.	A fake spike-turned-touchdown decided the Armed Forces Bowl as this team's trick play got the better of Tulsa:
		Cincinnati
		BYU
		Oregon
		Michigan State

12.	Robert Griffin III likely played his final collegiate game as Baylor out-firework'd this opponent in a bowl game-for-the-ages in the Alamo Bowl:
		Washington
		Notre Dame
		Nebraska
		Georgia

13.	This school was victorious as it played in its record 30th consecutive bowl game in the Champs Sports Bowl:
		Ohio State
		Penn State
		Florida State
		Washington State

14.	These guys found the beginning of the NBA season a bit jarring, lurching their way to an 0-3 start:
		Lakers
		Nuggets
		Celtics
		Spurs

15.	On the other hand, this pair of teams finished the first week of play without a loss, undefeated as of the end of play Sunday night:
		Thunder and Heat
		Clippers and Magic
		Knicks and Trailblazers
		Nets and Warriors

16.	And our brief review of NBA notes from the week ends on a sweet note, as we observe that this baller got engaged to his high school sweetheart:
		Kevin Durant
		LeBron James
		Kevin Love
		Nene

17.	It's apparently curtains for this MMA fighter, who announced his retirement from the UFC after suffering a first-round knockout:
		Matt Hughes
		George St. Pierre
		Brock Lesnar
		Cain Velasquez

18.	Inquiring minds during the week wanted to know the extent of the non-throwing shoulder of what premiere NFL passer?
		Tom Brady
		Aaron Rodgers
		Drew Brees
		Matthew Stafford

19.	Tom Brady's nagging shoulder apparently didn't bother the Pats' signal-caller much, as New England, after spotting Buffalo the first ________, rattled off the next _______
		17 / 35
		24 / 42
		21 / 49
		10 / 50

20.	So: Team is on the verge of making the playoffs. Team is leading and has the ball with under two minutes left. Attempting to run out the clock, team fumbles the ball away. Other team scores the apparent game-tying touchdown, but chooses to go for two, which fails miserably. We're describing here the wacky finish to which of Sunday's games?
		Giants and Cowboys
		Ravens and Bengals
		Titans and Texans
		Broncos and Chiefs

21.	This key-but-problematic member of the Jets was sent to his room to think about what he's done, as he was benched during his team's loss to the Dolphins:
		Mark Sanchez
		Dustin Keller
		Santonio Holmes
		LaDanian Tomlinson

22.	More from the Men Behaving Badly file: This receiver was sat down for the remainder of the game when, after scoring a touchdown, he lifted up his jersey to reveal Happy New Year written on an undershirt:
		Chad Johnson
		Stevie Johnson
		Roy Williams
		Hines Ward

23.	If you are an NFL team that will be playing in the postseason, please step forward. Not so fast there....
		Cincinnati
		New Orleans
		Atlanta
		Oakland

24.	An extremely awesome New Year's Eve stunt of extreme awesomeness on ESPN featured record-length, side-by-side simultaneous jumps of guys riding:
		A motorcycle and a snowmobile
		A snowboard and a monster truck
		A skateboard and a unicycle
		A shark and a barracuda