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1. Which sports villain was reportedly unsuccessful in seeking a pardon from George W. Bush in the outgoing president's final days?
Roger Clemens
Rafael Palmeiro
Mark McGwire
Darryl Strawberry
 
2. Which baseball club inked its closer to a one-year, $6.25 million deal this week?
Chicago White Sox
Boston Red Sox
St. Louis Cardinals
Colorado Rockies
 
3. The Detroit Pistons continue to struggle. This week the team moved which cog of its recent championship to the bench?
Tayshaun Prince
Rasheed Wallace
Richard Hamilton
Antonio McDyess
 
4. Donovan McNabb has a home in Chandler, Arizona, which is great and all, except for the fact that after Arizona beat the Eagles last week, some overzealous Cards fans:
Stole his mailbox
Set fire to his lawn
Called the police to his house complaining about noise
Littered his driveway with cans of Chunky Soup
 
5. This week marks the beginning of the Obama presidency in the United States. The sports media has gone out of its way to glom onto this story, running piece after piece on Barack's affinity for:
Jacks
Bowling
Pickup basketball
Lawn darts
 
6. Kerry Collins, come on down! You've earned/backed your way into a trip to the Pro Bowl, replacing which QB?
Brett Favre
Jay Cutler
Matt Cassel
Peyton Manning
 
7. With each report, the Dallas Cowboys seem closer to total dysfunction. We learned this week that the team's plane was delayed numerous times this season because of:
Equipment malfunction
Player tardiness
Disagreement within the team over which airline to fly
Diva-like demands on the part of star players
 
8. For the second straight week, the top-ranked men's basketball team lost. With Virginia Tech knocking off Wake Forest, how many unbeatens are left?
Zero
One
Two
Three
 
9. The Australian Open proceeded without much incident this week until defending champion Novak Djokovic beat Amer Delic. As soon as the match was over.....
Both players collapsed on the court from heat exhaustion
Melbourne was overrun by chazzwazzers
Djokovic announced his retirement from tennis
Serb/Bosnian ethnic violence flared outside the stadium
 
10. What led private Christian school The Covenant School to apologize to The Dallas Academy, calling its victory in girls basketball "shameful and an embarrassment"?
The Covenant School's coach punched out the opposing coach
The Covenant School's team had persuaded rapper Lil' Kim to perform at halftime
Covenant students stuffed the visitor's lockers with abstinence-related pamphlets during the game
The Covenant School won by a score of 100-0
 
11. Kansas now owns the country's longest home winning streak at 35 games, now that this team was beaten on its floor on Saturday:
Notre Dame
Texas A&M
Oklahoma
Florida
 
12. This notorious bad seed athlete was ejected from a lavish Atlanta hotel's grand opening for verbally assaulting a sports radio host who had previously indicated the athlete was something of a hothead. Way to prove them wrong...
Michael Irvin
Pacman Jones
John McEnroe
John Rocker
 
13. Which of these women's top seeds is still alive at the Australian Open?
#5 seed Ana Ivanovich
#1 seed Jelena Jankovich
#2 seed Serena Williams
#6 seed Venus Williams
 
14. In a new book set to be released next week, Joe Torre accuses this person of betraying him, which is surprising to that person, who claims he still texts Torre on a daily basis.
Brian Cashman
Derek Jeter
Alex Rodriguez
George Steinbrenner
 
15. Catriona Matthew, a 39-year-old Scots woman, won the inaugural HSBC LPGA Brazil Cup this weekend. What is significant about her victory?
She is five months pregnant
She is legally blind
She is legally deaf
She is surprisingly the first Scottish woman to ever win an LPGA event
 
16. Eddy Curry is off to a rough 2009. First he was accused of sexually harassing his male driver, and now...
He's been accused of point shaving
He's been suspended for a failed drug test
He's out for the season with a torn ACL/MCL
The mother of his three-year-old son was murdered
 
17. This storied head coach has indicated that 2010 will be his last year.
Bobby Bowden
Phil Jackson
Joe Paterno
Jerry Sloan
 
18. We can only assume that someone scored on a wicked wrister during the NHL All-Game game, held in this city, synonymous with hockey:
Toronto
Montreal
Detroit
Phoenix
 
19. This NHL player won the overall contest in the skills competition at the All-Star celebration.
Zdeno Chara
Andrew Cogliano
Shane Doan
Alexander Ovechkin
 
20. Finally: Did you hear news about Russian figure skater Ekaterina Rubleva?
She's earned a spot as a backup goalie on the premiere Russian men's hockey club
She physically assaulted a French judge after receiving poor marks at a competition
She beat out Eric Gagne for a bullpen spot on an MLB team
Her costume loosened during a performance and one of her breasts was exposed
 




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