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Washington lost on Sunday. So, their rookie LB could not twitter about their win at home to the Lions. They got booed because they lost.
Piggy622 9/29/09 12:18 pm

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1. Their hideously long drought of one season over, which MLB team was the first to earn a playoff berth this year?
New York Yankees
St. Louis Cardinals
Philadelphia Phillies
Boston Red Sox
 
2. Here's a gimme for you: Which MLB team is the first to the dubious mark of 100 losses this season?
Pittsburgh Pirates
Baltimore Orioles
New York Mets
Washington Nationals
 
3. The MLB Player of the decade, as declared by The Sporting News, is:
Todd Helton
Albert Pujols
Derek Jeter
Barry Bonds
 
4. The Colts took frugality to a whole new level in the Monday night win over the Fins, possessing the ball for just under:
25 minutes
8 minutes
19 minutes
15 minutes
 
5. Clearly hoping to turn their season around with all of 13 games left to go, which team fired manager Cecil Cooper this week?
New York Mets
Houston Astros
Washington Nationals
Colorado Rockies
 
6. While 49ers draftee Michael Crabtree continues to hold out, the team filed tampering charges against which other team regarding his future status?
Raiders
Jets
Eagles
Patriots
 
7. 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?
Buffalo
Atlanta
Washington
Denver
 
8. While he offers bland, uninspired opinion on Sundays, this former NFL standout now stars in a bland, uninspired Fox sitcom on Fridays:
Michael Strahan
Tiki Barber
Dan Marino
Rodney Harrison
 
9. Meanwhile, another former gridiron great has chosen a much more perilous path. Which former football star has been signed to the MMA organization Strikeforce?
Dana Stubblefield
Napoleon McCallum
Herschel Walker
Ki-Jana Carter
 
10. 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?
UCLA
Kansas
Florida State
New Mexico
 
11. 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?
New York Jets-Tennessee
Pittsburgh-Cincinnati
San Francisco-Minnesota
Indianapolis-Arizona
 
12. Not a good weekend for some Top 25 college football teams. Who escaped with a win?
Mississippi
Michigan
Florida State
North Carolina
 
13. Back to baseball, which heretofore model citizen was ejected for the first time in his entire career on Saturday?
Ichiro
Derek Jeter
Albert Pujols
Joe Mauer
 
14. 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?
France
Canada
Saudi Arabia
Russia
 
15. 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?
Cincinnati
Miami
Cleveland
Jacksonville
 
16. Congratulations to the Detroit Lions, whose 19 game winless streak came to an end on Sunday, courtesy of a team from the:
NFC East
NFC South
AFC West
AFC North
 
17. As of Sunday night, which of these MLB teams had not locked up their playoff spot yet?
Yankees
Dodgers
Phillies
Cardinals
 
18. More NFL hijinks! Sheldon Brown of the Eagles was fined $10,000 by the league for wearing what during his pregame introduction last Sunday?
a Jason hockey mask
big floppy clown shoes
someone else's jersey
nothing
 
19. 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?
Miami-Virginia Tech
Notre Dame-Purdue
Vikings-49ers
Bengals-Steelers
 
20. With the Lions finally off the schnide, who inherits the longest current losing streak in football?
Tampa Bay
St. Louis
Kansas City
Cleveland
 




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