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How Well Do You Know: 12/30/19-1/5/20
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In an upset, we'll start in college basketball, where this Florida school became the 4th team entering the game as a 25-point plus underdog to win this year, as they knocked off Iowa State:
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Florida International
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Florida Atlantic
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South Florida
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Florida A&M
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RIP Don Larsen. Those even casually familiar with baseball will remember Larsen as the only pitcher to record a perfect game in the World Series, a feat he accomplished with the:
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Dodgers
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Cardinals
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Yankees
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Orioles
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Also moving on was 74 year old Sam Wyche, most memorably the coach of this current AFC team:
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The Chiefs
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The Bengals
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The Steelers
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The Bills
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In Ye Olde NHL, this city - not exactly the first that springs to mind when you think of cold weather - hosted the New Year's Day Winter Classic:
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Dallas
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Los Angeles
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Atlanta
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Columbus
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Elsewhere in hockey, this team's coach John Tortorella was fined historically following comments me made about officiating recently:
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Washington
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Carolina
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Winnipeg
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Columbus
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And could it be? A third hockey question? Yes! Sunday night brought a true stunner, as this team came back from 2 goals down in the final minute to shock the Sharks:
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The Bruins
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The Penguins
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The Flyers
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The Caps
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Baylor lost its bowl game this year, at least in part when quarterback Charlie Brewer was hit late and exited the game with a head injury. Which bowl game did Baylor lose?
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Rose
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Cotton
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Sugar
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Citrus
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Switching to the NFL, Washington's team looked to turn around many, many years of complete futility by hiring as its head coach the man who most recently headed up the:
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Jaguars
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Colts
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Panthers
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Browns
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Being named to the NFL All-Pro team? It's a very big deal. Being named to the team at two different positions? That's a very, very, very big deal. He did it:
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Taysom Hill
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Christian McCaffrey
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Lamar Jackson
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Julian Edelman
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This division went 0-2 during the first round of the playoffs:
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AFC East
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AFC South
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NFC West
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NFC North
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This is the number of wild card teams that will survive to advance to the divisional round of the playoffs:
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0
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1
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3
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4
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Derrick Henry was an unstoppable Mack truck that bounced the Patriots from the playoffs. Mr. Henry accounted for this many yards Saturday:
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205
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182
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215
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166
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