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How Well Do You Know: 9/19/16-9/26/16
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Another wonderfully wacky weekend in college football saw Notre Dame fall to 1-3 on the season, thanks to a home loss to a team from:
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The ACC
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The WAC
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The Mid-American
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The Ohio Valley
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And an entertaining LSU-Auburn game saw a thrilling ending as the Tigers' LSU team's apparent last-second game-winning touchdown nullified because:
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A timeout was called
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The offense committed a penalty
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The ball was not snapped in time
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The receiver was ruled not to have caught the ball
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LSU boosters got their way, as the university quickly fired coach Les Miles. The man called _________ is great for college football, so let's hope a good program snaps him up soon.
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The Ringmaster
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The Mad Hatter
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The Train Conductor
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Wylie E. Coyote
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And this team got a heck of a monkey off its back, beating a conference rival on Saturday and snapping an incredible 11-game losing streak to its bitter foe:
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Tennessee
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Texas
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Stanford
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Wisconsin
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The best thing about baseball - by several touchdowns - is Vin Scully, whose farewell season approaches its end as one of the great announcers in sports history called his final home game for this west coast team:
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The Angels
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The Dodgers
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The Giants
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The Padres
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By weekend's end, this Series contender had a winning streak of more than 10 games:
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Rangers
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Red Sox
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Cubs
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Natinals
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If you are a baseball division who, as of Sunday night, had decided its champion, please step forward. Not so fast there.....
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NL East
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AL West
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NL West
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AL East
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Meanwhile, an accident on this mode of transportation took the life of extremely promising and likeable young Marlins star Jose Fernandez:
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Water ski
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Boat
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Motorcycle
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Car
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Also passing on this weekend was golfing legend Arnold Palmer. In looking through the long, long list of Palmer's accomplishments, we were surprised to find that he had never won this Major tournament:
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The Masters
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British Open
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US Open
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PGA Championship
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Break out your Fitzmagic countin' fingers and tell us the rather high number of interceptions thrown Sunday by the Jets' quarterback:
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8
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6
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7
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5
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After three Sundays worth of NFL action, can you ID the division that does not have a 3-0 team?
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NFC North
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NFC East
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AFC West
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AFC South
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Finally, this NFL team has been sent to its room to think about what it's done, getting hit with multiple fines and draft pick losses for OTA violations:
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The Raiders
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The Texans
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The Chiefs
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The Seahawks
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