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In the Hockey-on-a-Baseball-Field fiel, we read that the NHL's Winter Classic took place on the field where this MLB team usually plays ball:
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The Cubs
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The Cardinals
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The Rockies
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The Tigers
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In a somewhat unusual move, #1 Alabama decided to axe its _______ in between the College Football Playoff semifinal and the championship game:
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Head coach
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Offensive coordinator
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Defensive coordinator
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Special teams coach
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More college football? OK. The Big 10 had a Bowl Season to Forget as the ballyhooed conference took its lumps. One of the lone highlights was Wisconsin beating this previously-undefeated team in the Cotton Bowl:
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Texas A&M
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BYU
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Fresno State
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Western Michigan
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Probably the most entertaining of the bowls was the Rose Bowl. Can you pick out the correct final score from the options below?
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Penn State 63 USC 59
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Penn State 42 USC 25
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USC 52 Penn State 49
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USC 36 Penn State 35
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Switching over to college basketball, this coach, who you may have heard of, will miss around a month of action with a bad back:
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Jim Boeheim
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John Calipari
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Mike Krzyzewski
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Tom Izzo
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Villanova was reminded that the Big East will be no cakewalk this year, as Jay Wright's #1 squad was handed its first loss of the year by this conference foe:
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Xavier
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St. John's
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Butler
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Providence
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And this inter- intra- same-state rivalry proved no match, as __________ walloped ________ by 51 points:
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Indiana / Purdue
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Michigan State / Michigan
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North Carolina / North Carolina State
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UCLA / USC
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In grown man football, the AP voters loved this NFL team, picking five of its players to the first-team All Pro list:
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The Patriots
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The Falcons
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The Cowboys
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The Seahawks
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Good news: This quarterback guided his team to a Wild Card weekend victory. Bad news: He was seen in a walking cast after the game.
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Russell Wilson
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Brock Osweiler
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Ben Roethlisberger
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Aaron Rodgers
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And kids, remember: Don't be like these guys, and forget to cover the dude standing on the end line to receive a Hail Mary pass on the final game of the half:
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The Dolphins
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The Raiders
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The Giants
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The Lions
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