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1.	A tip of the hat goes to this long-time sports writer, who penned his final column on Monday after 44 years:
		Woody Allen
		Bob Ryan
		Mike Lupica
		Tom Boswell

2.	Along with most of the sports world, we were shocked - SHOCKED! - when this team kicked off its highest-profile, presumptive Heisman candidate off the team just weeks before the start of the college football season:
		Alabama
		USC
		LSU
		Texas

3.	The next time you see the Penn State football team, you'll notice this alteration to the long-unchanged uniforms:
		Stripes
		Player names
		PSU on the helmet
		Day-glo yellow sneakers

4.	Rory "The Allegory" McIlroy took home the PGA Championship this weekend, which was contested on the grounds of this US state:
		South Carolina
		Louisiana
		Michigan
		Pennsylvania

5.	______ shall be the number of the counting, which was also the number of strokes that Rory won by, so the number of the counting will be:
		11
		3
		6
		8

6.	History will record that Andrew Luck's first pass in an NFL game resulted in:
		A pick six
		A ricochet off his lineman's helmet
		A 63-yard touchdown pass
		A torn bicep

7.	If you are an NFL wide receiver who was not cut by his team over the weekend, please step forward. Whoa, not so fast there....
		Vincent Jackson
		Santana Moss
		Chad Johnson
		Brandon Stokely

8.	The alleged criminal offense which led to the Fish booting Chad was:
		Assault
		Reckless driving
		Drug possession
		Grand Theft Auto

9.	Meanwhile, as Johnson was being shown the door, fellow problematic wideout Terrell Owens signed with this NFL squad:
		Arizona
		Seattle
		Chicago
		Buffalo

10.	Surly behavior, fisticuffs and kungfufighting in camp led this NFL head coach to ponder aloud thusly: "I think sometimes, you're trying to be physical but being physical is one thing. Going past that is something else, and that's what I didn't like. That's why we stopped and had to remind the guys that the enemy is not in [our team colors]"
		Mike Shanahan
		Rex Ryan
		Jim Harbaugh
		Bill Belichick

11.	Roughly two thirds of all NBA teams were involved in the deal that landed Dwight Howard in Los Angeles. Of the below, this team had nothing to do with the transaction:
		Denver
		Philadelphia
		Orlando
		Chicago

12.	It's your weekly reminder that racecar spelled backwards is racecar. Watkins Glen was the site of a stirring NASCAR race, which saw this dude pulled ahead on the very last lap to win:
		Marcos Ambrose
		Brad Keselowski
		Kurt "Kyle" Busch
		David Reutimann

13.	The US women's soccer team won the gold medal, but not before a last-second, extra-time, 4-3 victory over this country in the semifinal game:
		Norway
		Australia
		Canada
		Japan

14.	Meanwhile, this country took the gold on the men's side, winning 2-1 over Brazil in an offensive slugfest:
		Mexico
		Portugal
		Argentina
		France

15.	A runner from this African country denied the favored Kenyans the gold in the men's marathon:
		Chad
		Egypt
		Uganda
		Ivory Coast

16.	This baller set the all-time Olympic mark for total points in a Games as the US defeated Spain in the gold medal match:
		Kobe Bryant
		Kevin Durant
		Chris Paul
		Anthony Davis

17.	A small tempest brewed among female US track athletes at the amount of media attention paid to this woman, who nonetheless failed to medal:
		Carmelita Jeter
		Allyson Felix
		Lolo Jones
		Sanya Richards-Ross

18.	We wish we were as adept at anything as Usain Bolt is at running fast. The Jamaican took home gold in each of the following, except:
		100m
		200m
		4x100m relay
		None, which is to say he won them all

19.	With London in the books, the USA stood at the top of the overall medal count, with this many:
		88
		126
		104
		115

20.	Host country Great Britain - perhaps you've heard of them - finished with 65 medals, good for ________ place in the overall standings:
		4th
		2nd
		9th
		6th

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