Sports Quiz – August 9, 2024

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Questions

1. What Baseball Hall of Famer served in World War II on the attack transport USS Bayfield during the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944?
2. Alberto Spencer, who has the record of 54 career goals scored in the Copa Libertadores soccer tournament, hailed from what country?
3. Journalist and promoter Harry Glickman was cofounder of what NBA franchise?
4. In 2000, the International Gymnastics Federation named Russia’s Vitaly Dubko the 20th century’s best coach in what discipline?
5. What player, selected third overall by the Golden State Warriors in the 1986 NBA Draft, received a lifetime ban from the NBA in 1989 for failing three drug tests?
6. Hockey Hall of Famer Bernie Federko has his No. 24 retired by what NHL team?
7. What troubled running back won two national championships (1994-95) with the Nebraska Cornhuskers and was drafted sixth overall by the St. Louis Rams in 1996?

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1. Yogi Berra.
2. Ecuador.
3. The Portland Trail Blazers.
4. Trampoline.
5. Chris Washburn.
6. The St. Louis Blues.
7. Lawrence Phillips.

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