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| Question 1: Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, was recently charged with insider trading. Does this surprise you? |
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| No. If you’re good at trading, there’s a good chance inside information is being transmitted. I’m sure he’ll buy his way out of it and then buy the Cubs. | No, the sports industry is like a business. I’m surprised more coaches or owners haven’t been caught. | It’s fitting. Are people from Texas even considered honest and reliable anymore? Besides, with role models like the executives in Wall Street, who wouldn’t be tempted to do a little insider trading? | He’s one sly guy. With a smile like his, there’s no clue what he’s capable of. |
| Question 2: Ex-WWE superstar Brock Lesnar defeated Randy Couture to claim the UFC heavyweight champion belt. Does his win validate the talent of the WWE’s superstars? |
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| It validates their strength, but Lesnar was a NCAA champion wrestler at Minnesota. I’m guessing that helped him more than the steroids Vince McMahon pumped into him. | Talent and WWE should never be in the same sentence. | Talent? Superstar? Validate? I don’t think those words even belong in the same sentence as WWE. | Brock Lesnar. Is he French? Because he is one hunk of a man. |
| Question 3: Jimmie Johnson recently captured his third straight Sprint Cup championship. Where does Jimmie Johnson rank among the list of three-peats, and who is first? |
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| Last. Enduring high temperatures and wrangling a steering-wheel doesn’t make you an athlete. Doesn’t his car get some credit? If Secretariat can be on the list of best athletes, the #48 Impala has an argument. | A three-peat in any athlete’s career is always admirable. Johnson definitely deserves to be at the top. | Doesn’t he make sausages? I don’t know about any race, but his bratwursts are pretty good soaked in a garlic beer-bath with onions and pepers. | The best three-peat flat-out is the French dogsleding team’s threepeat at the Arizona c hampionship in the ‘80s. |
| Question 4: Duke’s men’s basketball team barely escaped its early season game against Rhode Island 82-79. Is it no longer worthy of being named among the ranks of elite college basketball programs? |
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| Duke, you shouldn’t be losing games to a school that is affectionately known as U-R-High, but I’m happy the hippies gave the prep-schoolers a run for their money. Duke’s academic requirements will continue to put them at a disadvantage in the coming years. | As a fan who grew up watching Duke basketball, it’s disheartening to see the program struggle. If Coach K and his staff don’t change their recruiting process, Laettner’s and Hill’s legacies will be the only good memories the Cameron Crazies have left. | As far as North Carolina basketball goes, Demon Deacons are the only team to watch. | Rhode Island. I have a summer house there. |
Compiled by John Weidner.
