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Racecar spelled backwards is still racecar. In the first of our contractually-obligated NASCAR questions this year, we note this familiar name won the 203rd annual Daytona 500:
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Jeff Gordon
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Jimmie Johnson
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Brad Keselowski
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Tony Stewart
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The weekend at Daytona was marred when this man's car broke apart and broke through the fence to injure fans at the end of Saturday's Nationwide race:
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Regan Smith
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Joey Logano
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Michael Annett
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Kyle Larson
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It was a big weekend for women in sports, as pole-sitter Danica Patrick led a lap and finished in this position, the highest ever for a female at Daytona:
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8th
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3rd
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2ns
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12th
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And Ronda Rousey became the first woman to ever headline a UFC fight as she overcame a bit of adversity but nonetheless applied the armbar which ended her fight against:
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Miesha Tate
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Cat Zingano
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Gina Carano
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Liz Carmouche
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Early in the week we bid RIP to the owner of this storied NBA franchise:
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Lakers
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Knicks
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Celtics
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Bobcats
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Don't look now, but this team in the Association is heating up, having won 11 straight as of Sunday night:
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Thunder
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Heat
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Spurs
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Celtics
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If you were an NHL coach that didn't get fired this week, please step forward. Whoa, not so fast there, guy who used to coach the:
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Sabres
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Wild
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Avalanche
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Capitals
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Yankees fans took one to the jimmies when this Pinstriper broke his arm and will miss about 10 weeks:
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Robinson Cano
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Derek Jeter
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Curtis Granderson
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Mark Teixeira
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This week's college basketball action saw this largely forgotten-about ACC team come out of nowhere to give Miami its first conference loss:
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Clemson
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Virginia
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Wake Forest
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North Carolina
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Meanwhile, the largest crowd ever to see an on-campus college basketball game as Syracuse lost its final home game to this soon-to-be-ex conference rival:
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Georgetown
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St. John's
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UConn
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Villanova
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Seven - yep, seven - overtimes were necessary to decide two contests on Saturday played between teams in this conference:
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SEC
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Big 12
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WAC
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Pac 12
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An eeeeerily quite NBA trade deadline came....and then went. And when it was all over, the only big name below who changed teams was:
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Josh Smith
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Dwight Howard
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Rajon Rondo
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None of the above
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