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During the week, January up and changed into February. As the calendar flipped over, which NBA squad was not leading its division?
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Boston
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Miami
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Oklahoma City
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Minnesota
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Similarly, as the Shortest Month began, you'd find each of these sets of skaters leading an NHL division, except:
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Tampa Bay
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Pittsburgh
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Winnipeg
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Vegas
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This team with Native American insignia incorporated into its uniforms announced the removal of a controversial symbol coming by 2019:
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Cleveland (MLB)
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Atlanta (MLB)
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Kansas City (NFL)
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Washington (NFL)
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This week also marked the end of the Blake Griffin show in Los Angeles. The Clippers traded Griffin to a team that plays in:
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The Atlantic division
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The Central division
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The Southeast division
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The Northwest division
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Elsewhere in the Association, this player, whom you may have heard of, scored the first 60-point triple-double in NBA history:
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Kevin Durant
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Giannis Antetokounmpo
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James Harden
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Dirk Nowitzki
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Thursday night was a notable one for the Thunder. The out-of-bounds play used by the home team to score the winning points shouldn't have counted. Then, after the final horn, Russell Westbrook got into a scrape with a fan on the court. In which city did this madness take place?
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Denver
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Phoenix
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Houston
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Portland
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Are you a fan of 5-year deals? Us, too! This will be the new home for Thursday Night Football:
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ESPN
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Fox
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ABC
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NBC
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Duke visited this mightily-struggling team, who had lost 11 straight, on Saturday, only to be upset by the home team:
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Georgetown
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St. John's
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Maryland
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Virginia Tech
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Say hey to your SuperBowl LII MVP:
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Nick Foles
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Nelson Agholor
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Zach Ertz
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Fletcher Cox
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Break out your countin' fingers. The Pats and the Eagles accounted for this number of total points in the game:
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68
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85
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74
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79
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SBLII may go down as top-to-bottom the most entertaining Big Game ever. Each of the following records was set in the game, except for:
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Most combined total yards
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Most combined passing yards
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Most combined rushing yards
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Most individual passing yards
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An odd footnote to the game was the as-yet unexplained benching of this mainstay of the Patriots' defense, who didn't play a single defensive down during the game:
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Malcolm Butler
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Patrick Chung
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Stephon Gilmore
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Devin McCourty
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