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1. If you were onhand to personally congratulate the winner of the PGA Championship, you'd be shaking the hand of......
Jim Furyk
Jason Dufner
Jonas Blixt
Adam Scott
 
2. .....and you'd be standing on the ground of this US state:
Michigan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
 
3. Break out your countin' fingers, and tell us the number of games for which Alex Rodriguez was suspended by MLB:
191
231
211
161
 
4. Also sent to their rooms to think about what they've done in the Biogenesis scandal is each of the following, except for:
Adam Jones
Francisco Cervelli
Jhonny Peralta
Nelson Cruz
 
5. More baseball! The Dodgers of Los Angeles - perhaps you have heard of them - had a doozy of a game this week, trailing 6-0 against _________ and their ace pitcher before rallying for 4 in the bottom of the 9th to win 7-6:
Texas
Tampa Bay
San Francisco
St. Louis
 
6. This is your weekly reminder that racecar spelled backwards is racecar....a fact that this premiere driver will have time to consider, now that a broken leg has essentially ended his season:
Denny Hamlin
Jimmie Johnson
Carl Edwards
Tony Stewart
 
7. Football is coming! Football is coming! As the preseason gets into full swing, this pair, who are synonymous with rap, bring you a hip-hop flavored "Football on Your Phone" ad for DirecTV:
Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski
Matt Ryan and Tony Gonzalez
Peyton and Eli Manning
Mark Sanchez and Rex Ryan
 
8. The Baltimore Raves extended their winning streak by opening the preseason with a 44-16 cakewalk against this team based in the South:
Miami
Jacksonville
Tampa Bay
New Orleans
 
9. This team is the subject of HBO's Hard Knocks series, which began this week:
Cincinnati Bengals
Miami Dolphins
Seattle Seahawks
Cleveland Browns
 
10. The League announced this week that they'll be targeting this practice in efforts to eliminate taunting during the season:
Breaking stride while running into the end zone
Flipping the ball to a referee
Spinning the ball
High fives
 
11. Meanwhile, you remember basketball, right? The NBA released its 2013-14 schedule, which lists the defending champion Heat opening in Miami against this Eastern Conference foe:
Indiana
Chicago
New York
Boston
 
12. In its infinite wisdom, the NCAA announced that it will no longer sell ___________ on its web site:
Game tickets
School merchandise
Athletic venue naming rights
Autographs of premiere athletes
 
13. "Moronic" is how Justin Verlander labeled the accusations, made by this MLB player, having earlier accused Albert Pujols, that the Tigers hurler has been using PEDs:
Will Clark
Jack Clark
Jose Canseco
Lee Smith
 
14. The Atlanta Braves now lead their division by roughly 45 games, thanks in part to a winning streak that reached ________ games before a 1-0 loss to Miami over the weekend:
16
14
19
12
 
15. And to end on an interesting bit of trivia, this MLB pitcher became just the 13th pitcher to defeat all 30 teams:
Mark Buehrle
AJ Burnett
Dan Haren
Barry Zito
 




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