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| 1. | This sports world had a field day with Tim Tebow finally deciding that football just wasn't gonna be his thing, and that he'd rather give this endeavor a shot: | ||
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Baseball | ||
| Basketball | |||
| Hockey | |||
| Soccer | |||
| 2. | RIP John Saunders, a true gentleman of sports journalist and longtime host of this ESPN show, who died at 61 this weeK: John Saunders, longtime ESPN sports announcer, dies at 6 | ||
| Outside the Lines | |||
| Pardon the Interruption | |||
| 30 for 30 | |||
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The Sports Reporters | ||
| 3. | In exciting baseball action, the bobblehead night celebrating this player had to be cancelled, after the figure to be given away had some oddly constructed facial features: | ||
| Ian Desmond | |||
| Howie Kendrick | |||
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David Ortiz | ||
| Giancarlo Stanton | |||
| 4. | And this MLB club released its former big-time closer, the signing of whom the OPJ staff new, at the time, was a really, really, really, really bad idea: | ||
| Mets | |||
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Natinls | ||
| Royals | |||
| Cardinals | |||
| 5. | In Summertime NHL news, we learned that this team had its coach quit the team, citing lack of input on personnel decisions: | ||
| The Kings | |||
| The Stars | |||
| The Wild | |||
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The Avalanche | ||
| 6. | And break out your NBA superstar counting figures: LeBron James agreed to a 3-year extension with Cleveland, to the tune of this nice round number: | ||
| $80 million | |||
| $90 million | |||
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$100 million | ||
| $110 million | |||
| 7. | Over at the Olympics, this nations women shocked the world when the defeated the gold medal-favorite US side on penalty kicks, denying the Americans their customary appearance in the medal round: | ||
| Australia | |||
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Sweden | ||
| Canada | |||
| Norway | |||
| 8. | And stay the heck out of the pool, as Rio officials had to drain the diving pool after the water turned: | ||
| Black | |||
| Yellow | |||
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Green | ||
| Red | |||
| 9. | Meanwhile, on the greens, the fellow set Olympic history with the first ever hole-in-one at the Games: | ||
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Justin Rose | ||
| Bubba Watson | |||
| Matt Kuichar | |||
| Heinrik Stenson | |||
| 10. | There's little doubt that USA swimming did well in the water. When the competitive swimming events were completed, American swimmers had hauled in this many total medals: | ||
| 50 | |||
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33 | ||
| 27 | |||
| 25 | |||
| 11. | And as kind of an odd footnote to swimming, this premiere paddler, along with three other swimmers, were held up at gunpoint: | ||
| Michael Phelps | |||
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Ryan Lochte | ||
| Katie Ledecky | |||
| Simone Manuel | |||
| 12. | And cheers to this nation's Jemima Sumgong for maintaining a roughly 5-minute mile pace over 26.2 miles - the OPJ staff can *not* do this - in winning the women's marathon on Sunday: | ||
| South Africa | |||
| Jamaica | |||
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Kenya | ||
| Nairobi | |||
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