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Well lookee here: As of Sunday night, this team stands atop all of Major League Baseball with....1 win:
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Kansas City
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Houston
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LA Angels
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Colorado
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Even before the first pitch of the baseball season, some big news was made with some large contracts. This position player inked a whopping 9-year, $167 million deal with his team:
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Dustin Pedroia
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Matt Kemp
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Miguel Cabrerra
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Buster Posey
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Meanwhile, this pitcher will be staying put through the 2019 season, thanks to a $140 million extension:
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Justin Verlander
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David Price
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Roy Halladay
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Yu Darvish
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But this hurler didn't have such a spiffy time during the weekend, as he tore his shoulder and will probably watch the entire season from off the field:
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Cliff Lee
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Matt Cain
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Johan Santana
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Ubaldo Jimenez
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Baseball fans won't have this broadcaster to kick around after this year, as he announced his plans to retire following the season:
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Joe Morgan
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Tim McCarver
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Joe Buck
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Ron Darling
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In news from The Association, this team denied Miami its chance at immortality, defeating the Heat a few games short of the NBA winning streak record:
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San Antonio
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Boston
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Chicago
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Philadelphia
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And a sound defeat at the hands of New Orleans stopped the Nuggets' winning streak at this many games:
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17
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15
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18
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14
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This racecar driver won't be making any left-hand turns for quite a while, as he will be recuperating from a broken back suffered in last weekend's race at Auto Club Speedway:
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Joey Logano
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Denny Hamlin
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Matt Kenseth
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Mark Martin
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A (purposefully) hard-to-read tweet mentioning something about eleven rings was this former sports titan's first venture into Twitter this week:
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Michael Jordan
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Magic Johnson
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Joe Montana
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Phil Jackson
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The Elite Eight round of games contained one major broadcasting "oopsie!" as this commentator stated on air that he was present to provide the "White Man's Perspective:"
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Ernie Johnson
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Doug Gottlieb
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Digger Phelps
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Seth Davis
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This many #1 seeds will make up the Final Four weekend:
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4
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This pair of teams was responsible for the elimination of top seeds Kansas and Indiana:
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Michigan State and Wichita State
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Wichita State and Syracuse
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Michigan and Michigan State
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Michigan and Syracuse
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Action Sunday was marred when a guard for this team grotesquely broke his leg during the game. Perhaps you heard about it:
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Syracuse
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Louisville
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Duke
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Florida
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If you showed up in this city with a ticket for the Regional Finals, you were in the wrong place at the wrong time:
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Indianapolis
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Washington, DC
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Detroit
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Los Angeles
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And we'll round things out this week by observing that these two titans clashed in the season opening game of the former Lingerie Football League, now rebranded with the totally-appropriate *Legends* Football League. No, really:
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Atlanta and Jacksonville
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Green Bay and Seattle
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Los Angeles and Chicago
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Baltimore and Philadelphia
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