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Which sports villain was reportedly unsuccessful in seeking a pardon from George W. Bush in the outgoing president's final days?
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Roger Clemens
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Rafael Palmeiro
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Mark McGwire
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Darryl Strawberry
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Which baseball club inked its closer to a one-year, $6.25 million deal this week?
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Chicago White Sox
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Boston Red Sox
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St. Louis Cardinals
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Colorado Rockies
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The Detroit Pistons continue to struggle. This week the team moved which cog of its recent championship to the bench?
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Tayshaun Prince
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Rasheed Wallace
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Richard Hamilton
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Antonio McDyess
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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:
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Stole his mailbox
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Set fire to his lawn
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Called the police to his house complaining about noise
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Littered his driveway with cans of Chunky Soup
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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:
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Jacks
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Bowling
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Pickup basketball
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Lawn darts
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Kerry Collins, come on down! You've earned/backed your way into a trip to the Pro Bowl, replacing which QB?
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Brett Favre
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Jay Cutler
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Matt Cassel
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Peyton Manning
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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:
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Equipment malfunction
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Player tardiness
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Disagreement within the team over which airline to fly
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Diva-like demands on the part of star players
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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?
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Zero
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One
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Two
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Three
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The Australian Open proceeded without much incident this week until defending champion Novak Djokovic beat Amer Delic. As soon as the match was over.....
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Both players collapsed on the court from heat exhaustion
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Melbourne was overrun by chazzwazzers
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Djokovic announced his retirement from tennis
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Serb/Bosnian ethnic violence flared outside the stadium
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What led private Christian school The Covenant School to apologize to The Dallas Academy, calling its victory in girls basketball "shameful and an embarrassment"?
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The Covenant School's coach punched out the opposing coach
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The Covenant School's team had persuaded rapper Lil' Kim to perform at halftime
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Covenant students stuffed the visitor's lockers with abstinence-related pamphlets during the game
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The Covenant School won by a score of 100-0
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Kansas now owns the country's longest home winning streak at 35 games, now that this team was beaten on its floor on Saturday:
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Notre Dame
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Texas A&M
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Oklahoma
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Florida
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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...
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Michael Irvin
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Pacman Jones
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John McEnroe
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John Rocker
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Which of these women's top seeds is still alive at the Australian Open?
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#5 seed Ana Ivanovich
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#1 seed Jelena Jankovich
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#2 seed Serena Williams
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#6 seed Venus Williams
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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.
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Brian Cashman
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Derek Jeter
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Alex Rodriguez
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George Steinbrenner
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Catriona Matthew, a 39-year-old Scots woman, won the inaugural HSBC LPGA Brazil Cup this weekend. What is significant about her victory?
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She is five months pregnant
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She is legally blind
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She is legally deaf
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She is surprisingly the first Scottish woman to ever win an LPGA event
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Eddy Curry is off to a rough 2009. First he was accused of sexually harassing his male driver, and now...
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He's been accused of point shaving
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He's been suspended for a failed drug test
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He's out for the season with a torn ACL/MCL
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The mother of his three-year-old son was murdered
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This storied head coach has indicated that 2010 will be his last year.
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Bobby Bowden
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Phil Jackson
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Joe Paterno
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Jerry Sloan
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We can only assume that someone scored on a wicked wrister during the NHL All-Game game, held in this city, synonymous with hockey:
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Toronto
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Montreal
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Detroit
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Phoenix
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This NHL player won the overall contest in the skills competition at the All-Star celebration.
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Zdeno Chara
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Andrew Cogliano
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Shane Doan
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Alexander Ovechkin
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Finally: Did you hear news about Russian figure skater Ekaterina Rubleva?
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She's earned a spot as a backup goalie on the premiere Russian men's hockey club
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She physically assaulted a French judge after receiving poor marks at a competition
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She beat out Eric Gagne for a bullpen spot on an MLB team
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Her costume loosened during a performance and one of her breasts was exposed
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