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Let's get the bad news out of the way first. The baseball world lost a promising youngster on Sunday morning, as the Royals' Yordano Ventura was killed in his home country of:
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Curacao
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Panama
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Dominican Republic
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Cuba
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In less tragic MLB news, this league old-timer received a pardon for his tax fraud charges from outgoing US president Obama:
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Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Brooks Robinson
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Willie McCovey
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Rod Carew
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And if you got your ticket punched for induction for the Baseball Hall of Fame this week, please step forward. Whoa, not so fast there......
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Ivan Rodriguez
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Trevor Hoffman
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Tim Raines
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Jeff Bagwell
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OPJ does not have a strength and conditioning coach. For the time being, we have this in common with this university, who suspended its coach after several players were hospitalized following workouts:
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Texas A&M
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Miami (FL.)
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Florida State
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Oregon
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In our contractually-obligated NHL and/or NASCAR question, this streaking club's streak ended at nine W's with a wild 8-7 loss against Pittsburgh:
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Rangers
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Capitals
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Ducks
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Blues
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In Tales from the Association, if you are sidelines 6-8 weeks after a torn thumb ligament, then you have something in common with this premier NBA point guard:
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Kyrie Irving
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Kyle Lowry
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Chris Paul
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John Wall
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A bizarre and/or entertaining presentation featuring acrobatic dancers dressed as construction workers hailed the groundbreaking of this basketball team's new arena:
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The Heat
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The Spurs
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The Bulls
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The Warriors
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Believe it or not, one of the following NBA superstar was not named as a starter to the All-Star game:
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LeBron James
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James Harden
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Stephen Curry
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Russell Westbrook
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Say, you were paying attention Sunday afternoon and evening, right? Then you can most likely pick out the final scores from the NFL conference championship games:
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49-20 and 38-12
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44-21 and 36-17
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41-17 and 35-10
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44-23 and 30-18
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The NFC championship game was almost over before it began, as the Falcons had amassed this many points before the Pack scored at all:
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28
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30
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31
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