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For some contractually obligated baseball questions: Max Kepler, a young up-and-coming rookie for this bunch, socked three dingers against Cleveland this week:
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Twins
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White Sox
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Rangers
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Royals
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Showing Kepler how the big boys do it, though, this heavy hitter had three homers and seven RBIs in the *first three innings* on Sunday:
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Mike Trout
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Manny Machado
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Giancarlo Stanton
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Troy Tulowitzki
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And which of the aforementioned sluggers hammered a home run more than 500 feet on Saturday?
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Mike Trout
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Manny Machado
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Giancarlo Stanton
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Troy Tulowitzki
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But all was not homers and happiness in baseball land. Word broke that this team's coach had reportedly installed hidden weight room cameras to spy on players:
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Braves
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A's
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Mets
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Cardinals
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And Alex Rodriguez's career appears to becoming to a screeching halt. At a quickly convened press conference on Sunday, August 7, we learned that the Yankee's last game will be on:
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Wednesday, August 10
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Thursday, August 11
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Friday, August 12
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Sunday, August 14
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And we'll get outta the baseball section of the quiz by asking if you can name the team against which venerable Ichiro Suzuki collected his 3,000th hit on Sunday:
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Nationals
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Cubs
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Rockies
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Padres
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Good news, citizenry, good news! College football is a-coming back! We know this because this week saw the release of the Pre-season coache's poll, which had these usual suspects at the top of the rankings:
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Alabama
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LSU
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Clemson
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Ohio State
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The previous question was filed under "Pre-season: good." This week in "Pre-season:bad", we kind of have to laugh at the NFL's Hall of Fame game getting cancelled because of:
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Weather
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Field conditions
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Electrical outages
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Refusal of players to compete
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As for the actual Hall of Fame ceremony itself, please step forward if you were inducted into Canton this weekend. Not so fast there....
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Marvin Harrison
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Brett Favre
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Ken Stabler
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LaDanian Tomlinson
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And now, for the Olympics. This sport just couldn't wait to get things started, beginning competition days before the opening ceremonies:
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Soccer
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Basketball
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Water polo
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Swimming
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For the opening ceremonies themselves, instant celebrity was cast upon the oiled-up, muscular flag-bearer for this island nation:
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Fiji
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Marshall Islands
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Tonga
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England
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And the very first gold medal of the Olympics went to youngster Virginia Thrasher of the USA in this sport:
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Archery
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Shooting
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Kayaking
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Judo
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