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26 College football's Holy War (the rivalry between BYU and Utah) will be played in Las Vegas aka Sin City?...

27 Indy 500 renown singer of Back home again in Indiana Jim Nabors isn't from and has no connection to Indiana...

28 cole hamels of the philadelphia phillies was in the process of trade talks with the chicago cubs and throws a no hitter on saturday against them! And, from the team with the worst record in the mlb at the time....? 07/25/15...

29 A Sportswriter for a local team writes a piece on how bad a player is and why fans shouldn't buy into what the media is saying about them, only for fans to defend the player and start buying into it more to spite the negativity of the writer....

30 YNWA-A Liverpudlian acronym for "You'll Never Walk Alone" which makes fans sleep easier at night knowing that they're all in this together-is an anagram for YAWN....

31 If Michael Phelps were to drown in the tub

32 Michael Vick is starting for the Jets while Mark Sanchez is starting for the Eagles?...

33 I was trying to show my sister that scootering down a hill was safe but then wrecked my scooter while doing it?...

34 A soccer player only watches American football

35 I once beat a WWF wrestler..in a thumb wrestling match

36 USA made it in the worldcup but Portugal didn't

37 the Tour De France this year starts in Yorkshire?

38 In racing, the only person to win the camping world, nationwide, and sprint cup races in one weekend, is first out in the next time he has the chance to do the same thing. This was on the same track...

39 a friend of mine accused me of being a plastic (fake) football supporter yet in my opinion he supports a plastic (fake) football club?...

40 Someone who is usually very bad at cricket,scored the highest runs in the game and dominated the match...

41 that Gary Bettman was the man most responsible for getting NBA and NHL players to play in the Olympics and now wants to prevent NHL players from playing in future Olympics>...

42 Don Mazzetti plays a fool to show others their folly? (Socratic Irony?) Context: http://www.youtube.com/user/BroScienceLife/videos?flow=grid&view=0&sort=da...

43 athletic competitions offer one of the very best venues for earning some of life's most important lessons; but life's most important lessons don't require victories, many are best taught in defeat....

44 I got knocked unconscious at soccer training and then on the news it talks about brain injuries from sports and I was just thinking about it?...

45 The Designated Hitter goes 0 for 8 at the plate with 5 or 6 strikeouts, but deep in extra innings he has to be used as an emergency pitcher and does so effectively by pitching 2 scoreless innings and getting the win....

46 the winter Olympics are being held in Russia and there's bad snow?

47 a quarterback tries to throw a last-minute touchdown pass, but it's intercepted ... by a defensive back who, in his high school career, caught a last-minute touchdown pass from the same quarterback....

48 Alexis gets a spinal injure (and don't know that we will not walk again) during a charity rugby match to spinal injured players....

49 the third baseman trips the runner in order to keep the runner from scoring, although the very act of tripping causes the scoring run?...

50 Some people complain certain poorly performing or lesser supported NFL teams are not shown on TV during the regular season but then when those very teams are given air time the very same people state the absurdity of showing them because they are poor or have a low support base....