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Pro basketball and pro hockey are now in the books, as Golden State won its:
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Third championship in five years
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Third championship in a row
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Second championship in three years
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Second championship in four years
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The Predators fans in your life will bemoan the officiating, especially the superfluous whistle in the final game, but the Pittsburgh Penguins claimed their second consecutive Stanley Cup:
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In 6 games at home
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In 6 games on the road
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In 7 games at home
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In 7 games on the road
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Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the French Open played out. Much was made of former king Novak Djokovic's quarterfinal loss, marking a disastrous debut of Novak's working with this legend as coach:
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Pete Sampras
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Andre Agassi
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Boris Becker
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John McEndroe
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Break out your atlas and see if you can find this country, home to the young upstart who won the women's crown:
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Romania
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Lithuania
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Latvia
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Montengro
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And on the men's side, Rafael Nadal, who you very well may have heard of, regained his King of Clay title in winning his ________ title at Roland Garros:
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14th
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10th
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12th
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9th
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In news we *just didn't see coming*, there were two sudden high-profile vacancies in college sports. First of all, the summer's usually not the time to jettison your men's basketball coach. Nobody seemed to tell the:
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Badgers
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Terrapins
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Orange
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Buckeyes
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Perhaps even more surprising, on the college football side of the coin, was the shocking resignation of the man in charge of:
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Oklahoma
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Clemson
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Florida State
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Southern Cal
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And speaking of university athletics, HBO has decided to do a Joe Paterno movie, with this actor headlining as the controversial coach of the Nittany Lions:
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Dennis Quaid
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Robert DeNiro
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Jon Voight
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Al Pacino
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If you are an Uber driver who made news this week by transporting a pro football player a long, long way to New York City, then you drove a great distance with a member of the _______ in your back seat:
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Bills
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Eagles
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Steelers
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Ravens
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In our contractually-obligated NASCAR question, this left-hand turn specialist returned to racing this week after a brief scare with cancer:
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Martin Truex
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Matt Kenseth
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Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
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Jimmie Johnson
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This NFL star's down-to-earth nature again came to the fore when he responded to his peers ranking him 35th most valuable in the League by saying hogwash, that's too high:
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J.J. Watt
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Russell Wilson
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Matt Ryan
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Julian Edelman
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4 shall be the number of the counting, and that number shall be 4 home runs, all hit in one game by a man named Scooter who plays for the:
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Royals
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Rockies
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Reds
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Red Sox
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