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How Well Do You Know: 12/1/14-12/7/14
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It was a maddening week for fans of this university's football team, as the school shut down the program:
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Bowling Green
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Rice
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Miami (Ohio)
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Alabama-Birmingham
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It was a worse week for the head coaches of these two football teams, who were terminated:
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Notre Dame and Nebraska
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Georgia and Michigan
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Nebraska and Michigan
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Notre Dame and Georgia
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Coming into the weekend, this CFB team was ranked as to be in the four-team college football playoff. As of Sunday evening.....not so much:
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Ohio State
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TCU
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Baylor
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Florida State
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The NBA will not have a winless team this week, as the Philadelphia 76ers secured its first win of the season after ______ losses to open the season:
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15
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20
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23
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17
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In further Tales from the Association, the NBA got one of its stars back, as Oklahoma City welcomed Kevin Durant back to its lineup in a loss to the:
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Pelicans
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Nets
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Nuggets
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Blazers
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In college ball, this school lost to end its extraordinary 35-game regular season winning streak:
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VIrginia Commonwealth
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Kentucky
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UConn
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Wichita State
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And the shocker of the weekend came when this school, the only independent in Division I basketball, knocked off #16 Michigan on the Wolverines' home court:
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The Citadel
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SW Missouri State
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St. Francis (Brooklyn)
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New Jersey Institute of Technology
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If you congratulated Sports Illustrated's second-ever Sportsman of the Year Legacy Award winner, and the first pro athlete to win the honor, you'd be shaking the hand of this dude:
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Magic Johnson
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Larry Bird
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Michael Jordan
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Patrick Ewing
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Kids, don't go breaking ribs and puncturing a lung, or you'll miss the rest of the NFL season. This lesson comes courtesy of this elite NFL receiver:
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Dez Bryant
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Demaryius Thomas
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Larry Fitzgerald
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Brandon Marshall
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And finally, Peyton Manning's run of sheer luck had to run out some time, and it came to pass that Sunday ended the Broncos quarterback's string of ______ games with a touchdown pass:
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55
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51
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48
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59
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