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Sports trivia quiz: Test your knowledge with our weekly game How many of this week’s questions — with topics touching on tennis to NFL history to NASCAR — can you get right?

Quiz time! Test your sports knowledge with these eight questions (and maybe learn something about early-days NFL team names)
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As Trump-Infantino bond tightens, FIFA announces inaugural peace prize The soccer governing body’s president has frequently spent time with Trump this year. The award will be presented at December’s World Cup draw in D.C.

Whether this is an actual bro-mance or something a little more transactional, the increasingly warm relationship between Trump and Gianni Infantino seems like noteworthy context for FIFA's announcement today that it will begin awarding an annual peace prize.
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If #Jets are inclined to trade Breece, but only for the right price, Sunday's game turned out perfectly. He looked good enough to possibly convince another team to pony up for him, & NY's win takes the monkey off its back and could relieve internal pressure to keep him while in search of that W.

World Series trivia quiz: Test your knowledge of the Fall Classic We focus this week on the World Series, which starts Friday. How many of our eight questions can you get right?

You may be aware that the World Series is about to get going. You may not be aware that the questions in this week's sports quiz are all related to World Series in one way or another. Well, now you know for sure, so by all means take the quiz!
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Portland Trail Blazers head coach and Miami Heat player arrested in gambling probe Chauncey Billups, head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, and Miami Heat reserve Terry Rozier were among more than 30 people charged in ”illegal gambling schemes,” according to federal authorities.

Biiiiiiiig NBa news today, and very much of the kind the league does not want. It feels like there will be much more to come from this story, the first installment of which is being handled this morning by my great colleague Rick Maese.
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NFL instructs officials to watch for false starts on the tush push In a training tape, the league says the Eagles should have been penalized at least once in Sunday’s win over the Chiefs.

From our Mark Maske:
The NFL said in its officials' training tape sent to teams this week the Eagles should have been called for false-starting on the tush push Sunday against the Chiefs, instructing officials to call “these plays tight."...
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Oh man, someone said they should be called the "No-Showtime" Clippers.
That just might stick.

Quiz No. 2 is up now, so by all means give it it a go. We got some feedback that last week's was a little too tough, so I tried to add a couple more layups in this one (although my editor actually took out a major hint in one question, making it a bit trickier)
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Sports expert? Test your knowledge with our weekly quiz. How many of this week’s eight questions -- including ones on the Yankees’ history books and Big Ten football futility -- can you get right?

If you have a couple of minutes and want to test your sports knowledge, try our quiz! It's a new feature we're rolling out today, one we hope entertains (or edutains, as the case may be) readers while providing a glimpse at the weekly sports landscape.
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Analysis | Fantasy football tiers: A guide to help you with the tough draft calls We’ve broken positional rankings into groups of players with similar projected outcomes, all in the name of helping fantasy managers navigate their drafts.

If you're doing a fantasy draft this weekend, then you're going to want a little guidance. May I point you toward my draft tiers? Just the thing to help you make navigate the vexing decisions that crop up about which position to target, and when.
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As always, when it comes to my fantasy football drafts, I practice what I preach. (Doesn't always work out, it should be noted, but at least I mean what I say with my rankings.)

I'll echo what so many who have worked directly with Sally have already said: she is not only brilliant but a hell of teammate. Great get for the Atlantic.
Just a reminder, though, as (again) many have already noted: there is A LOT of talent left in the WaPo Sports dept.

The Post Sports section bids more farewells, with Cindy (and the great Alexa Steele) following Steinberg out the door. As with Dan, Cindy takes a pioneering history in the blogging (for lack of a better term) game with her, and she'll be missed. I've loved (almost) every minute of working with her.

Dan became a great editor after blazing all sorts of trails as a writer, and he’s a really good dude to boot. Wishing him all the best in his future endeavors.

Yes, I wrote this lede.

I regret nothing.

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The player and the life insurance agent behind Bobby Bonilla Day When the Mets wanted to buy out the outfielder’s contract 26 years ago, Dennis Gilbert came up with a plan the team is still paying for.

Kent Babb is always a must-read, so you know what you need to do here:
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Wait a minute. Why is the NBA holding its draft so soon after the Finals? While the NFL makes a point of keeping fans’ attention over the offseason, changing the NBA calendar to parcel out events has “never really been a big topic,” a league official said.

If it feels like just yesterday that the NBA was still in the midst of its 2024-25 season, that's because it almost literally was. Which raises a question ...
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Alrighty then, guess we're really going to test my belief that I could listen to these two read the proverbial phonebook

apologies, make that the max *11* WRs. Some folks will definitely be doing that

also, WRs don't generally score as much as RBs in this format, but you know there are going to be some members of the FF intelligentsia absolutely loading at WR and starting the max 9 as much as possible

Brock Bowers and Trey McBride look like kingpins here, but drafting them doesn't necessarily confer an enormous positional advantage, since other teams don't have to have a TE at all

Cara cara oranges nicely answer the question: What if grapefruits were a little smaller and a lot more delicious?

Game in a nutshell: at one end, the Knicks run an iso for Landry Shamet (?), who predictably can't create a good look for himself, leading to a runout and a wide-open three for Pascal Siakam, who drains it. NY needs to focus on creating open threes, but that's not their style under Thibs.

Should have mentioned this earlier, too, but good lord are the Knicks killing themselves with turnovers. No one but Brunson should be putting any amount of dip on their chip with these passes (especially Hart), which never end well for NY. Pacers continue to get good contributions from their depth.

On cue, Robinson grabs a couple of boards and the Knicks get points out of it.

All sorts of issues for NY, including Brunson getting badly outplayed by Haliburton, but it would really help if Robinson would start dominating on the glass, as opposed to being a relative non-factor, and if KAT could shoot more threes.

In Game 4, the Knicks are indeed shooting better from 3 (41% atm) but Indy has been better from deep so far (45%) and, more importantly, NY again is trying to make a bunch of tough shots while the Pacers appear far more capable of creating easy looks.

NY doesn't look capable of really putting the clamps on Indy's offense, so it's going to have to shoot better from three if it wants to get back into this series. Through two games, the Knicks have made just 22 of 66 (33%) from deep, compared to 28 of 67 (41.8%) for the Pacers.

The Knicks are hanging around, but man, it feels like all their shot attempt are tough ones (even if some are going down, thanks mostly to Brunson's brilliance), while the Pacers are consistently generating much easier looks.

The Wizards can simply never catch a break. And you'll never believe this, either, but a premier NBA prospect is heading to the Western Conference.