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Let us first dispense with the baseball portion of the quiz. This club signed renaissance man Tim Tebow an instructional league contract:
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The Brewers
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The Braves
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The Mets
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The Marlins
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The boss of this league was accused of punching a former official long ago, according to said former official's biography:
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MLB
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NHL
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NFL
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NBA
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An entertaining second weekend of college football was punctuated by an incredible - but, if you go by the rulebook, undeserved - hailmaryfleaflicker on an untimed down, giving a team with this directional in its name a victory over a ranked team:
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Middle
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Central
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Northern
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Western
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An incredible, record-setting attendance of more than 156,000 were onhand to witness a college football game played on in a NASCAR stadium on the grounds of this state:
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Virginia
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Tennessee
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North Carolina
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South Carolina
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Meanwhile the quarterback for this team took matters largely into his own hands, amassing 610 total yards on Saturday:
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Louisville
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Clemson
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Houston
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Miami (OH)
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And Charleston Southern would have had its hands full playing this ranked team at full strength, but made its own path to victory even slimmer by suspending 14 players:
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Florida State
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Oklahoma
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Notre Dame
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Texas
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Dial up the wayback machine and try to remember the margin of victory in the very first NFL game of the season on Thursday night:
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4 points
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1 points
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2 points
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3 points
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They were up 21-3 at halftime. They lost in overtime. They are:
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The Bills
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The Ravens
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The Falcons
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The Chargers
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A gutsy last-minute go-for-two decision resulted in the road team getting the W in the game played on this field:
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Soldier Field
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Ford Field
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Superdome
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CenturyLink Field
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At the end of Sunday afternoon's play, these two teams were a full game up on the entirety of their division:
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The Raiders and the Packers
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The Jets and the Broncos
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The Texans and the Buccaneers
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The Browns and the Eagles
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And in closing, here's the Tennis Geography Report. The women's singles champion for the US Open hails from:
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Spain
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USA
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Germany
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Czech Republic
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And that would mean that this year's men's champion is from:
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Switzerland
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Serbia
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Great Britain
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France
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