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| 1. | Big, big events transpired in the world of baseball pitchers this week. Yu Darvish was traded from the Rangers to the leaders of this baseball division: | ||
| AL East | |||
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NL West | ||
| AL West | |||
| NL East | |||
| 2. | Say hey to this hurler, who recorded not only his 2000th career strikeout but his first career home run on the same day this week: | ||
| Justin Verlander | |||
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Jon Lester | ||
| Max Scherzer | |||
| Ubaldo Jimenez | |||
| 3. | Not nearly as enjoyable was the outing for this of the aforementioned pitchers, who also hit his first career dinger, but left the next inning due to a sore neck: | ||
| Justin Verlander | |||
| Jon Lester | |||
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Max Scherzer | ||
| Ubaldo Jimenez | |||
| 4. | We'll get out of baseball by noting that Albert Pujols set an MLB record for this week. Albert's now hit into 351 double plays in his career, which means that this former bigshot is now in second place: | ||
| Ricky Henderson | |||
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Cal Ripken, Jr. | ||
| Dave Henderson | |||
| Pete Rose | |||
| 5. | And now for football, sweet sweet football. The Hall of Fame game featured a tilt between teams from the: | ||
| AFC East and AFC West | |||
| AFC East and NFC West | |||
| NFC East and AFC West | |||
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NFC East and NFC West | ||
| 6. | Figures most associated with each of these three teams were inducted into the Hall this week. Which team below is the odd one out? | ||
| The Broncos | |||
| The Chargers | |||
| The Cowboys | |||
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The Patriots | ||
| 7. | And yet all is not totally copacetic in footballland. This signalcaller may miss a big chunk of the season due to a shoulder injury: | ||
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Andrew Luck | ||
| Eli Manning | |||
| Cam Newton | |||
| Phillip Rivers | |||
| 8. | The Dolphins' Ryan Tannehill went and got himself all busted up, so Miami coaxed out of retirement a fellow who had most recently quarterbacked for the: | ||
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Bears | ||
| 49ers | |||
| Chiefs | |||
| Texans | |||
| 9. |
And more startling is this proclamation: |
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| Roger Staubach | |||
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Jim Plunkett | ||
| Joe Montana | |||
| Franco Harris | |||
| 10. | Meanwhile, in the junior circuit, it should come as zero surprise to anyone that perpetual machine Alabama tops the pre-season Coaches Poll rankings. But do you know who is #2? | ||
| Ohio State | |||
| Clemson | |||
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Florida State | ||
| USC | |||
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