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Their hideously long drought of one season over, which MLB team was the first to earn a playoff berth this year?
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New York Yankees
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St. Louis Cardinals
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Philadelphia Phillies
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Boston Red Sox
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Here's a gimme for you: Which MLB team is the first to the dubious mark of 100 losses this season?
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Pittsburgh Pirates
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Baltimore Orioles
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New York Mets
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Washington Nationals
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The MLB Player of the decade, as declared by The Sporting News, is:
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Todd Helton
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Albert Pujols
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Derek Jeter
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Barry Bonds
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The Colts took frugality to a whole new level in the Monday night win over the Fins, possessing the ball for just under:
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25 minutes
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8 minutes
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19 minutes
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15 minutes
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5.
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Clearly hoping to turn their season around with all of 13 games left to go, which team fired manager Cecil Cooper this week?
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New York Mets
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Houston Astros
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Washington Nationals
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Colorado Rockies
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While 49ers draftee Michael Crabtree continues to hold out, the team filed tampering charges against which other team regarding his future status?
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Raiders
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Jets
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Eagles
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Patriots
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Rookie NFL linebacker Robert Henson caught fire this week, complaining on Twitter about fans booing his team following their victory at home on Sunday. For which team does he play?
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Buffalo
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Atlanta
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Washington
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Denver
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While he offers bland, uninspired opinion on Sundays, this former NFL standout now stars in a bland, uninspired Fox sitcom on Fridays:
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Michael Strahan
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Tiki Barber
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Dan Marino
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Rodney Harrison
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Meanwhile, another former gridiron great has chosen a much more perilous path. Which former football star has been signed to the MMA organization Strikeforce?
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Dana Stubblefield
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Napoleon McCallum
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Herschel Walker
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Ki-Jana Carter
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The fracas having begun, we believe, by someone getting chocolate in someone else's peanut butter, basketball and football players at which university scuffled with each other during the week?
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UCLA
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Kansas
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Florida State
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New Mexico
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Here's an oddity: It was week 3 in the NFL and this weekend had only one matchup of 2-0 teams. Which game was guaranteed to knock a team from the ranks of the undefeated?
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New York Jets-Tennessee
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Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
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San Francisco-Minnesota
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Indianapolis-Arizona
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Not a good weekend for some Top 25 college football teams. Who escaped with a win?
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Mississippi
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Michigan
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Florida State
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North Carolina
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Back to baseball, which heretofore model citizen was ejected for the first time in his entire career on Saturday?
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Ichiro
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Derek Jeter
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Albert Pujols
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Joe Mauer
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A guy with more money than you or I will ever see from what country made an offer this week to buy the New Jersey Nets?
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France
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Canada
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Saudi Arabia
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Russia
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Ahhhh, rookies. Clearly unfamiliar with the concept of hazing, cornerback Coye Francies severely overreacted to having some ice water dumped on him. In which team's locker room did the altercation occur?
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Cincinnati
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Miami
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Cleveland
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Jacksonville
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Congratulations to the Detroit Lions, whose 19 game winless streak came to an end on Sunday, courtesy of a team from the:
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NFC East
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NFC South
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AFC West
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AFC North
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As of Sunday night, which of these MLB teams had not locked up their playoff spot yet?
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Yankees
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Dodgers
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Phillies
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Cardinals
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More NFL hijinks! Sheldon Brown of the Eagles was fined $10,000 by the league for wearing what during his pregame introduction last Sunday?
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a Jason hockey mask
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big floppy clown shoes
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someone else's jersey
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nothing
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It was a thrilling weekend of football with several nailbiters, a couple of cliffhangers and even a barnburner. Which of following was not decided in last minute?
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Miami-Virginia Tech
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Notre Dame-Purdue
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Vikings-49ers
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Bengals-Steelers
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20.
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With the Lions finally off the schnide, who inherits the longest current losing streak in football?
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Tampa Bay
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St. Louis
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Kansas City
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Cleveland
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