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This speed merchant, by virtue of driving faster than anyone else, won the Indianapolis 500:
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Paul Tracy
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Dario Franchitti
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Tony Kanaan
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Helio Castroneves
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Meanwhile, this item damaged cars, injured spectators and otherwise f'ed stuff up at the Coca Cola 600:
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A TV cable
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A fence
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A blown tire
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A wayward car jack
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Soccer report! These guys are your new Champions League champions:
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Barcelona
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AC Milan
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Chelsea
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Bayern Munich
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What, more soccer? Yes! MLS has announced an expansion team in this city...perhaps you've heard of it:
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New York
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Toronto
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Miami
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Detroit
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If it's almost June, then it's almost time for the Stanley Cup Finals. Almost. These two teams will go at it for the Eastern Conference championship:
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Boston and Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh and New York
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Boston and Ottawa
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Ottawa and Washington
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Meanwhile, this Avalanche legend has signed on to be the head coach of Colorado and return the team to not sucking:
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Patrick Roy
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Peter Forsberg
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Joe Sakic
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Adam Foote
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Last week, this major college football program was looking forward to its highly regarded sophomore quarterback leading the team back to respectability in the fall. This week? Not so much, as the player was dismissed from school:
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Texas A&M
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Alabama
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USC
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Notre Dame
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An whaddaya know, the French Open has started up. These two are the top seeds for the men and women at Roland Garros:
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Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova
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Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams
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Djokovic and Williams
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Nadal and Sharapova
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But - hold the phone. This woman of note was one-and-done at the French, eliminated in her first match of the tournament:
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Li Na
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Maria Sharapova
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Victoria Azarenka
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Venus Williams
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As we work our way through the NBA playoffs, this team decided it was time to axe its head coach:
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Timberwolves
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Bobcats
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Wizards
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Clippers
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The prospects for this team in the Association look a bit brighter this week, after the organization won the NBA draft lottery:
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Washington
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Cleveland
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Philadelphia
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Charlotte
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There was a notable retirement from the NFL this week, that leaves the ranks of ___________ a little the poorer:
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Quarterback
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Running back
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Linebacker
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Punter
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These two cities were awarded the next two Super Bowls:
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Dallas and Miami
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San Francisco and Houston
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Denver and Minneapolis
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New York and Boston
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Can we have one week go by without a team scoring a walk-off inside-the-park home run? This team was the latest to achieve the increasingly mundane feat:
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San Francisco
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Detroit
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Atlanta
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St. Louis
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Meanwhile, the latest cycle that was hit for came courtesy of this dude, whose 5 RBI performance powered his team's 12-0 gleefest:
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Miguel Cabrera
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Mike Trout
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Josh Hamilton
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Dustin Pedroia
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