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If you were onhand to personally congratulate the winner of the PGA Championship, you'd be shaking the hand of......
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Jim Furyk
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Jason Dufner
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Jonas Blixt
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Adam Scott
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.....and you'd be standing on the ground of this US state:
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Michigan
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Ohio
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Pennsylvania
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New York
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Break out your countin' fingers, and tell us the number of games for which Alex Rodriguez was suspended by MLB:
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191
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231
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211
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161
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Also sent to their rooms to think about what they've done in the Biogenesis scandal is each of the following, except for:
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Adam Jones
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Francisco Cervelli
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Jhonny Peralta
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Nelson Cruz
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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:
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Texas
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Tampa Bay
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San Francisco
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St. Louis
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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:
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Denny Hamlin
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Jimmie Johnson
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Carl Edwards
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Tony Stewart
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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:
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Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski
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Matt Ryan and Tony Gonzalez
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Peyton and Eli Manning
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Mark Sanchez and Rex Ryan
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The Baltimore Raves extended their winning streak by opening the preseason with a 44-16 cakewalk against this team based in the South:
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Miami
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Jacksonville
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Tampa Bay
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New Orleans
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This team is the subject of HBO's Hard Knocks series, which began this week:
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Cincinnati Bengals
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Miami Dolphins
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Seattle Seahawks
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Cleveland Browns
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The League announced this week that they'll be targeting this practice in efforts to eliminate taunting during the season:
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Breaking stride while running into the end zone
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Flipping the ball to a referee
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Spinning the ball
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High fives
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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:
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Indiana
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Chicago
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New York
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Boston
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In its infinite wisdom, the NCAA announced that it will no longer sell ___________ on its web site:
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Game tickets
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School merchandise
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Athletic venue naming rights
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Autographs of premiere athletes
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"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:
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Will Clark
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Jack Clark
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Jose Canseco
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Lee Smith
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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:
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16
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14
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19
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12
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And to end on an interesting bit of trivia, this MLB pitcher became just the 13th pitcher to defeat all 30 teams:
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Mark Buehrle
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AJ Burnett
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Dan Haren
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Barry Zito
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