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1.	All undefeated Division I men's college basketball teams, please step forward. Not so fast, Baylor, as you lost this week to these two Big 12 rivals:
		Kansas and Missouri
		Kansas and Kansas State
		Texas and Oklahoma
		Texas Tech and Oklahoma State

2.	Racers Rule! Later in the week, the list of undefeated teams was reduced to Murray State, as Syracuse lost at Notre Dame. Which pivotal Orange player missed the game due to injury?
		Kris Joseph
		Brandon Triche
		Scoop Jardine
		Fab Melo

3.	If you've begun contemplating your fantasy baseball roster, you can pretty much completely forget about this catcher, as he'll miss almost the entire season thanks to a torn ACL:
		Mike Napoli
		Yadier Molina
		Joe Mauer
		Victor Martinez

4.	What's hurting Carl Crawford? Well, it's this body part, an injury to which may make the disappointing Red Sox outfielder miss Opening Day:
		Wrist
		Ankle
		Rotator cuff
		Collar bone

5.	Yu Darvish who, contrary to our initial assumptions is not a James Bond movie villain, signed a six year contract with Texas for what nice round number?
		$50 million
		$60 million
		$40 million
		$70 million

6.	His age, birth name, natural hair color, favorite movie and boxers vs. briefs preference were among the many, many things that this Dominican-born MLB has lied about:
		Al Alburquerque
		Erick Aybar
		Jose Bautista
		Fausto Carmona

7.	The sports world did some celebrating and reminiscing as we observed the 70th birthday of this legend during the week:
		Johnny Unitas
		Muhammad Ali
		Joe Namath
		Wilt Chamberlain

8.	In what we in the business like to call a "delayed reaction," the coach of this football team was fired on Tuesday:
		Miami
		Tampa Bay
		St. Louis
		Indianapolis

9.	Your Sports/Pop Culture CrossoverEvent! of the week came in the form of this A-List actor informing the populace that Peyton "Don't Call Me Eli" Manning will retire:
		Tim Allen
		Rob Lowe
		Kelsey Grammer
		Ashton Kutcher

10.	Ahead of his team's AFC Championship game against the Patriots, Joe Flacco had to dismiss as "not a big deal" his public calling-out by this teammate:
		Ray Rice
		Ray Lewis
		Ed Reed
		Terrell Suggs

11.	The woeful Washington Wizards' second victory of the year came at the hand of this bona-fide contender on Wednesday night:
		Oklahoma City
		Denver
		Orlando
		San Antonio

12.	"It is as bad as I've ever been around, honestly...And I've been around some locker rooms and quarterback-receiver situations and what-not. But it was as bad as I've been around." If the Jets had done half as much playmaking during the season as they've done talking afterward, we wouldn't have heard comments like this, made by this player:
		Mark Sanchez
		LaDanian Tomlinson
		Jim Leonhard
		Darrelle Revis

13.	Members of this team should get down cold the whole sticking-out-the-pinky-while-drinking-tea thing, as they will be playing a game in London for the next three year:
		St. Louis
		New Orleans
		Denver
		Oakland

14.	Joe "Reeg" Philbin accepted the head coaching position for the Miami Dolphins. You may or may not be familiar with Philbin's most recent work as the offensive coordinator for:
		Seattle
		Green Bay
		Kansas City
		San Diego

15.	What were the seeds of the NFL's final four?
		1 & 2 and 3 & 4
		1 & 2 and 2 & 4
		1 & 4 and 2 & 3
		1 & 3 and 2 & 4

16.	The number ________ will live in infamy among Ravens fans, as it was the length of the potential game-tying field goal that Billy Cundiff missed (hint: it was 1 yard longer than Lawrence Tyne's overtime game-winner a few hours later):
		29
		41
		32
		35

17.	That the 49ers took the Giants to overtime was surprising, given this remarkable fact:
		They converted just a single third down
		Alex Smith was sacked 9 times
		They committed 6 turnovers
		They had 3 first downs in regulation

18.	If you shook the hand of the man who rushed for 100+ yards in one of the conference championship games, you'd be congratulating:
		Frank Gore
		Ben-Jarvus Green-Ellis
		Ray Rice
		A figment of your imagination
		*By way of explanation.....* That's right, there were no 100 yard rushers in either game yesterday

19.	Largely unheralded Ekaterina Makarova provided one of the few surprises in the Australian Open thus far when she knocked off this clearly-off-her-game player:
		Ana Ivanovic
		Serena Williams
		Maria Sharapova
		Caroline Wozniacki

20.	The book on one of the more bizarre falls from grace that we'll ever see closed this weekend as Joe Paterno passed on at the age of:
		84
		91
		85
		89

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