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Night fell, and there were no more unbeatens. The NFL's last perfect team and AFC West-leading Chiefs lost their bid at immortality to a team from the:
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AFC South
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AFC West
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AFC East
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NFC West
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Earlier in the week, this city's team had become the last to win a game during the season (though by the end of the week, they actually had a winning streak!)
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Atlanta
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Houston
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Tampa
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Jacksonville
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Sunday saw a spate of dangerous weather delayed for more than two hours a game ultimately won by the:
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Bears
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Ravens
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Lions
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Bengals
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Say hey to this NFL team, that won its first home game in a mind-boggling 413 days:
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Tampa Bay
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Oakland
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Buffalo
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Philadelphia
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This is your final yearly reminder that racecar spelled backwards is racecar, as this speed merchant walked away with the Sprint Cup:
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Clint Boyer
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Kevin Harvick
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Jeff Gordon
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Jimmie Johnson
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Baseball tried to worm its way back into our consciousness this week. This club announced that it would bolt its current downtown digs to build a new stadium in Cobb County:
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Rangers
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Royals
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Braves
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Angels
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The headiest of all the head cheeses in the League are the skippers for these teams, who were named Manager of the Year this week:
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St. Louis and Boston
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Pittsburgh and Cleveland
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Pittsburgh and Boston
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St. Louis and Cleveland
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Meanwhile, while Tampa Bay's Wil Myers is the AL Rookie of the Year, his counterpart in the Junior Senior Circuit National League is a young fella who plays for:
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Colorado
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San Francisco
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Los Angeles
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Miami
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And next time you see our good friends ______ and _________, congratulate them on their Cy Young Awards for the year:
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Yu and Clayton
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Max and Adam
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Yu and Adam
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Max and Clayton
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In one of the grisly hockey injuries we've seen in a while, the __________ Steven Stamkos snapped his leg against the goal post this week:
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Lightning's
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Ducks'
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Hawks'
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Avalanche's
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We love us some early season college basketball and, overall sloppy play nothwithstanding, we were giddy about the Champions Classic, which saw victories by:
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Duke and Kentucky
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Kentucky and Michigan State
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Kansas and Duke
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Michigan State and Kansas
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Jack Taylor, a mad bomber who had set a record with a scorching 138 points in a game last year, crossed the century mark again with 109 in a win for:
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Mercyhurst
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Stony Brook
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Grinnell
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Mount Union
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Only one of these college hoops squads emerged from the weekend without suffering a loss. Which one?
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North Carolina
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Syracuse
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Michigan
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Notre Dame
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Meanwhile, in college football, this school did the smart thing by locking up (figuratively, of course) its hot young coach with a new contract running through 2023:
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Texas Tech
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Oregon
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Baylor
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Stanford
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We opened with a question about the fall of the NFL's last unbeaten, so we'll bookend the quiz by asking who finally handed the NBA's Pacers their first L of the season:
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Celtics
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Hawks
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Bulls
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Knicks
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