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1. For some contractually obligated baseball questions: Max Kepler, a young up-and-coming rookie for this bunch, socked three dingers against Cleveland this week:
Twins
White Sox
Rangers
Royals
 
2. 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:
Mike Trout
Manny Machado
Giancarlo Stanton
Troy Tulowitzki
 
3. And which of the aforementioned sluggers hammered a home run more than 500 feet on Saturday?
Mike Trout
Manny Machado
Giancarlo Stanton
Troy Tulowitzki
 
4. 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:
Braves
A's
Mets
Cardinals
 
5. 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:
Wednesday, August 10
Thursday, August 11
Friday, August 12
Sunday, August 14
 
6. 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:
Nationals
Cubs
Rockies
Padres
 
7. 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:
Alabama
LSU
Clemson
Ohio State
 
8. 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:
Weather
Field conditions
Electrical outages
Refusal of players to compete
 
9. As for the actual Hall of Fame ceremony itself, please step forward if you were inducted into Canton this weekend. Not so fast there....
Marvin Harrison
Brett Favre
Ken Stabler
LaDanian Tomlinson
 
10. And now, for the Olympics. This sport just couldn't wait to get things started, beginning competition days before the opening ceremonies:
Soccer
Basketball
Water polo
Swimming
 
11. For the opening ceremonies themselves, instant celebrity was cast upon the oiled-up, muscular flag-bearer for this island nation:
Fiji
Marshall Islands
Tonga
England
 
12. And the very first gold medal of the Olympics went to youngster Virginia Thrasher of the USA in this sport:
Archery
Shooting
Kayaking
Judo
 




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