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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:
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Denver
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San Antonio
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LA Clippers
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Oklahoma City
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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?
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Denver
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San Antonio
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LA Clippers
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Oklahoma City
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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?
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Atlanta
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Memphis
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Boston
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Philadelphia
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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:
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Dominican Republic
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Canada
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Italy
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Puerto Rico
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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:
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Curtis Granderson
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Mark Teixeira
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Brian McCann
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David Ortiz
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Say hey to the guys from this school who won the Big East tournament:
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Georgetown
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Syracuse
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Marquette
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Louisville
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These are your Big 10 champs for the year:
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Buckeyes
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Wolverines
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Badgers
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Hoosiers
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And the ACC tourney champs are the kids who play for:
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Mike Krzyzewski
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Roy Williams
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Jim Larranaga
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Mark Gottfried
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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:
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Tony
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Peyton
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Phillip
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Mark? Byron? Tim? It's all a rich tapestry for the Jets fans
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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:
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A copier
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A fax machine
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A three-hole punch puncher
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A scanner
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Now former-Viking Percy Harvin will be hauling in passes next season as he plays in this division:
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AFC West
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AFC East
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NFC East
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NFC West
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This team landed pass catching specialist Mike Wallace but said goodbye to lineman Jake Long:
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Buffalo
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Miami
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Cleveland
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San Francisco
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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:
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Cincinnati
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Oakland
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Philadelphia
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Buffalo
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The NHL board of governors put their noodles together and approved a realignment plan, which will leave the League with this many divisions:
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Six
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Three
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Eight
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Four
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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:
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Chicago
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Detroit
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Dallas
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Ottawa
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