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Years from now, you'll bounce the lil' ones on your knee and tell them how in 2014, the MLB Wild Card games were played in these two venues:
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Kaufman Stadium and Nationals Park
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O.co Stadium and PNC Park
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O.co Stadium and Nationals Park
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Kaufman Stadium and PNC Park
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Add together the number of inning required for the Royals to complete their first two postseason games, and you get this number:
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19
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23
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32
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28
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Meanwhile, your Washington Natinls were mere strikes away from tying its series with the Giants at 1-1, when they said screw it, let's go ahead and lose the game in this many innings:
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19
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17
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16
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18
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Any of the above questions very well might be answered at this exact moment by the former manager of the major league club, who was axed at the end of this season:
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Rockies
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Twins
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White Sox
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Marlins
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This woeful NFL team mustered its fortitude and gave its head coach the boot:
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Tampa Bay
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Jacksonville
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Washington
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Oakland
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The NFL gave tradition a kick to the jimmies, as the League decided to move its draft from New York City to:
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Chicago
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Miami
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Boston
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Philadelphia
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Once every 8.5 years, it's a great day to be a Cleveland Browns fan, and Sunday was such a day. The team overcame a deficit of this many points to eke out a 29-28 win over the hapless Titans:
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25
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28
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21
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24
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Take it from us. Winning a game becomes much easier when you score 3 touchdowns in the final 4 minutes, including the decisive points on a Hail Mary. Just ask these guys:
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Colorado State
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Washington State
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Arizona State
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Utah State
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Many, many ranked teams played football on Saturday. Almost all of them lost. Of the following, the only ranked team to survive was:
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Auburn
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Oregon
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Stanford
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Oklahoma
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And it was a great, great day to be a Mississippi-ean, as both Mississippi State and Ole Miss won their games against these big-time opponents, respectively:
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Florida and Texas A&M
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Texas A&M and Alabama
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Alabama and LSU
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Florida and Alabama
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And while other major college football teams reveled in various degrees of significance, this one-time major program was left to defend its leaving an obviously concussed quarterback in the game the week before:
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Texas
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Michigan
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Florida
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Boston College
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Your sports viewing ways might have been improved ever so slightly this week, as the FCC eased the dreaded blackout restrictions for this sports organization:
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MLB
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NFL
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NBA
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NHL
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