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1. The post-season college basketball merry-go-round began this week when Furious Frank Martin left his job at Kansas State for this SEC school:
South Carolina
Auburn
Georgia Tech
Maryland
 
2. ....and Kansas State scooped up the coach most recently of:
Colorado State
Providence
New Mexico
Illinois
 
3. If you want to send congratulations to the man named the AP men's basketball coach of the year, then address your correspondence to the campus of:
Indiana
Kentucky
Missouri
Syracuse
 
4. A three-car crash with two laps to go opened the door for Ryan "Hello" Newman to claim victory at the weekend's Sprint Cup race held at:
Phoenix
Bristol
Charlotte
Martinsville
 
5. If you've been paying attention to your NFL news, you'll know this famous ex-coach is the name most frequently bandied about to head up the Saints while Sean Payton is in his room thinking about what he's done:
Bill Parcells
Mike Ditka
Tony Dungy
Jon Gruden
 
6. Are you ready for some football? If so, you gotta wait until Wednesday, September 5, when the NFL season will begin with this divisional matchup that features a participant of February's Super Bowl:
Patriots and Jets
Giants and Cowboys
Giants and Eagles
Patriots and Dolphins
 
7. If you're like us, you filled out an NIT bracket so you definitely know that the champion was:
Washington
Minnesota
UMass
Stanford
 
8. You may also have followed the College Basketball Invitational, where this team triumphed in a best-of-three final:
Butler
Pittsburgh
Washington State
Oregon
 
9. But only the hardest of the hardcore can correctly name guess the champion of the CIT. If you knew this without looking, seek professional help.
Utah State
Fairfield
Mercer
Oakland
 
10. A group featuring this L.A. sports hero ponied up some major semolians to buy the Dodgers:
Tommy Lasorda
Marcus Allen
Magic Johnson
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
 
11. These two MLB teams racked up some major airmiles as they jetted to and from Japan to start the baseball season, splitting a two-game set in the process:
Dodgers and Giants
Cubs and Cardinals
Oakland and Seattle
Texas and Royals
 
12. Rajon Rondo tallied a triple double as the Celtics woodshedded this title contender Sunday:
Chicago
Miami
Oklahoma City
L.A. Lakers
 
13. The OPJ staff was only partly appeased when the NFL decided thusly regarding its weird over overtime rules:
College-style overtime rules will be adopted for both regular season and playoffs
The rules in place for the playoffs will also be in place for the regular season
The playoffs will be played with the old, regular season overtime rules
College-style overtime rules will be adopted for the playoffs only
 
14. At the age of 49, Jamie Moyer will be in the starting rotation for this team:
Phillies
Rockies
Diamondbacks
Blue Jays
 
15. Former Rockie Ubaldo Jimenez is now off of many Christmas card lists in Colorado after beaning this former teammate in a spring training game:
Troy Tulowitzki
Todd Helton
Carlos Gonzalez
Jason Giambi
 
16. The Knicks will be without this key player for the remainder of the season:
Carmelo Anthony
Jeremy Lin
Amare Stoudamire
Baron Davis
By way of explanation.....
Yes, that's right...it's a Linjury.
 
17. Add up the seeds of the women's Final Four, and you'll get this number:
4
5
8
10
 
18. If you watched the women's Final Four live in person, then you found yourself in this western city:
Portland
Denver
Salt Lake City
San Diego
 
19. Conversely, the men's Final Four was contested in:
Washington, DC
Dallas
New Orleans
Miami
 
20. The two teams that fell just short of the championship game in the men's Final Four represented these two conference:
The ACC and the Pac 10
The Big East and the Big 10
The Big 12 and the SEC
The SEC and the Big East
 




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