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COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY: Gipper-winning aside, he graduated from Notre Dame in 1914 and taught chemistry at the school before he was head coach

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Knute Rockne

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SPORT ABILITY: Shooting 18 under at the 2015 Masters, Jordan Spieth tied this man for the tourney’s all-time scoring record

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Tiger Woods

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TABLE TENNIS, ANYONE?: Americans call a table tennis racket a paddle; Brits use this term familiar from cricket and another sport

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a bat

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NET FLICKS: Will Ferrell finds he’s inherited his dad’s bad temper when he coaches kids’ soccer in this comedy

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Kicking and Screaming

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GOALS: Finishing in 1994, this women’s soccer star brought home the bacon for UNC, scoring 103 goals

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Mia Hamm

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WINNING: The World Series in 2017: this team, Jose Altuve and co.

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The Houston Astros

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ALSO A BASEBALL WORD: A bargain so amazing it’s almost like you’re paying nothing

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steal

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ALSO A BASEBALL WORD: You pour it to make pancakes

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batter

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WE’RE TALKING BASEBALL: Even better than a no-hitter, it’s the rare feat of pitching the whole game and not allowing a single baserunner

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a perfect game

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WE’RE TALKING BASEBALL: In September 2014 this Yankee drove in the winning run in his emotional last home game of a 20-year career

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Derek Jeter

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WE’RE TALKING BASEBALL: Playing for the Dodgers, Chan Ho Park was the first MLB player from this country

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South Korea

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THE 2016 SUMMER OLYMPICS: There’s no more perfect 10, so it was a 15.933 floor exercise that clinched her all-around gymnastics gold

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Simone Biles

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AN “L” OF A TEAM: They were still based in the Midwest when they won the first NBA title in 1950

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L.A. Lakers

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DOWNTOWN CABBIE: Sure, I can take you to this L.A. sports arena where Kobe plays; you know it doesn’t sell office supplies, right?

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Staples Center

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HOW ‘BOUT THOSE…: Golden State Warriors, who in 2015-16 lost 9 and won an NBA record this many regular-season games

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73

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POP CULTURE GOLD and SILVER: The Golden State Warriors have won 2 NBA titles led by this 2-time league MVP

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Curry

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NHL TEAMS IN OTHER WORDS: The Great Whites

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The (San Jose) Sharks

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“B” A SPORT: The pros play it on a 94-by-50-foot court

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basketball

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6-LETTER BIBLE BOOKS: Purim celebrates her rescue of her people from a massacre

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Esther

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LET’S GO DODGERS!: In 1958 the Dodgers came to L.A. from this Brooklyn ballpark that had been their home for 4 decades

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Ebbets Field

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LET’S GO DODGERS!: Since 2011 this Dodgers ace has nabbed 3 Cy Young awards and won 100 games while losing only 37

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Clayton Kershaw

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LET’S GO DODGERS!: Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016, this slugging catcher was 1993 National League Rookie of the Year as a Dodger

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Mike Piazza

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April 2018 - Villanova beat Michigan to claim its second blank title in three years.

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NCAA (Men’s Basketball)

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SPORTS NUMBERS: Number of seconds in a full NBA shot clock

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24

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SPORTS NUMBERS: If you win the first point of a tennis game, you have this number as your score

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15

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SPORTS NUMBERS: In golf, number of holes played in the Masters Tournament, without a playoff

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72

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SPORTS NUMBERS: In Major League Baseball, the minimum number of pitches to reach a “full count”

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5

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SPORTS: On USA Today’s list of magical numbers in sports, each had an explanation except 61, which only had this symbol

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asterisk

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PRO SPORTS: The official address of the Atlanta Braves is No. 755 on the drive named for this man

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Hank Aaron

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THE STATE’S SECOND-LARGEST CITY: North Carolina: Home to the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes

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Raleigh

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GYMNASTICS: 7 perfect scores helped this Romanian girl win 3 gold medals at the 1976 Olympics

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Nadia Comenici

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SPORTS ABBREV.: It’s also called a walk: BB

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Bases on Balls

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SPORTS ABBREV.: For a hoopster: PPG

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Points per game

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SPORTS ABBREV.: He tries to sack the quarterback: DE

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Defensive End

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SPORTS ABBREV.: In the 2005-06 season, LeBron James averaged 42.5 MPG–that’s not miles per gallon but this

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Minutes per game

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SPORTS ABBREV.: A cable channel: ESPN

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Entertainment and Sports Programming Network

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SPORTS ABBREV.: Baseball - RBI

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Runs batted in

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2 NUMBERS PLEASE: In baseball, a full count

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3 and 2

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HQ TRIVIA: Buildings at this company’s Oregon HQ are named for Bo Jackson, Steve Prefontaine & Mia Hamm

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Nike

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“B” A SPORT: The pros play it on a 94-by-50-foot court

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basketball

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BASKETBALL: SCREEN andROLE: Michael Jordan and other NBA stars teamed with Looney Tunes characters to defeat aliens in this 1996 film

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Space Jam

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TIME TO P”UNT”: To gently hit a pitched baseball

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bunt

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LEGENDS OF THE GAMES: Bobby Orr, Wayne Gretzky

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ice hockey

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THE WORLD ALMANAC 2017: This team set a new NBA record on April 13, 2016 when it won its 73rd game of the regular season

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Golden State Warriors

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AMERICA”NA”: In 1891 he was assigned to create an indoor game to distract an unruly class

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James Naismith

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WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG: Future astronaut Sally Ride was so good at this sport that Billie Jean King suggested she turn professional

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tennis

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SPORTS STARS: His given name is Eldrick; his more famous nickname honors his father’s Vietnam War buddy

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Tiger Woods

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SPORTS STARS: He was named after Japanese beef

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Kobe Bryant

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NHL LOGOS: A sea creature is depicted chomping on a hockey stick on the logo of this San Jose team

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Sharks

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THE NHL: The Islanders and the Rangers both have this place in their names

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New York

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A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN: From 1942 to 1967 it had only 6 teams including the Blackhawks, Red Wings and Maple Leafs

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NHL

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IT WAS 1970s AMERICA, MAN: After she beat Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 on Sept. 20, 1973, Riggs admitted, “I underestimated you”

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Billie Jean King

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THE BEGINNING: With about 240 athletes from 14 countries, the modern Olympics began in this year in Athens, Greece

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1896

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THE 2020 OLYMPICS IN 2021: Momiji Nishiya, at 13 the youngest gold medalist since 1936, came down the rail to win gold in the street type of this debuting sport

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skateboarding

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