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1. Emerging from the weekend, the Miami LeBrons have amassed a 22 game winning streak. Somewhat but only slightly less impressive is this Western Conference team, which has chalked up 11 straight wins:
Denver
San Antonio
LA Clippers
Oklahoma City
 
2. One of the aforementioned teams from the West became the first in the conference to clinch a playoff spot with a victory Thursday night. Which?
Denver
San Antonio
LA Clippers
Oklahoma City
 
3. A controversial injury on the final play of the game left the Lakers without their star Kobe Bryant indefinitely, and left Bryant with lots of bad feelings and talk of revenge. Against who did the Lakers play during the game in question?
Atlanta
Memphis
Boston
Philadelphia
 
4. A loss to this baseball titan eliminated the USA from the World Baseball Classic, meaning that most of us can go back to not caring about baseball for a few more weeks:
Dominican Republic
Canada
Italy
Puerto Rico
 
5. Wait. Dammit. We do have one additional baseball note. Apparently the injury suffered by this big-name player is more serious than previously thought, and now might miss months, not weeks, of the regular season:
Curtis Granderson
Mark Teixeira
Brian McCann
David Ortiz
 
6. Say hey to the guys from this school who won the Big East tournament:
Georgetown
Syracuse
Marquette
Louisville
 
7. These are your Big 10 champs for the year:
Buckeyes
Wolverines
Badgers
Hoosiers
 
8. And the ACC tourney champs are the kids who play for:
Mike Krzyzewski
Roy Williams
Jim Larranaga
Mark Gottfried
 
9. NFL free agency hit ludicrous speed this week. Perhaps the biggest name on the transaction blotter is Wes Welker, who will go from catching passes thrown by Tom to catching passes thrown by:
Tony
Peyton
Phillip
Mark? Byron? Tim? It's all a rich tapestry for the Jets fans
 
10. New Bronco Wes Welker will most likely not be wearing the same uniform as sackmeister Elvis Dumervil, who was cut loose by Denver because of this piece of office equipment:
A copier
A fax machine
A three-hole punch puncher
A scanner
 
11. Now former-Viking Percy Harvin will be hauling in passes next season as he plays in this division:
AFC West
AFC East
NFC East
NFC West
 
12. This team landed pass catching specialist Mike Wallace but said goodbye to lineman Jake Long:
Buffalo
Miami
Cleveland
San Francisco
 
13. And less than two years after signing its quarterback to a six year, nearly $60 million extension, this team cut the poor guy loose this week:
Cincinnati
Oakland
Philadelphia
Buffalo
 
14. The NHL board of governors put their noodles together and approved a realignment plan, which will leave the League with this many divisions:
Six
Three
Eight
Four
 
15. As part of the realignment, this notable team will get zamboni'd from its recent home in the Western conference to a more geographically suitable Eastern conference:
Chicago
Detroit
Dallas
Ottawa
 




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