Sports Quiz – Aug. 6, 2017

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By Chris Richcreek

1. In 2015, Chris Sale set a Chicago White Sox record for most strikeouts in a season (274). Who had held the team mark?
2. Who was the last teenage starting pitcher in the major leagues before Julio Urias of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2016?
3. Name the first football coach to win a NCAA championship and a Super Bowl.
4. When was the last time before the 2015-16 season that Seton Hall’s men’s basketball team won a conference tournament championship?
5. Who holds the Pittsburgh Penguins’ goaltender record for most career wins in the NHL playoffs?
6. Toronto FC set a record in 2016 for largest margin of victory (seven goals) in an MLS playoff series that features two legs. What team had held the mark?
7. Since 1980, how many horses have won the Preakness after skipping the Kentucky Derby?

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1. Ed Walsh struck out 269 in 1908.
2. Seattle’s Felix Hernandez in 2005.
3. Jimmy Johnson won a national championship at Miami, Fla., (1987 season) and two Super Bowls with Dallas (1992, 1993 seasons).
4. It was the 1992-93 season.
5. Goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, with 62.
6. The Los Angeles Galaxy had a five-goal margin of victory over Real Salt Lake in 2014.
7. Seven – Codex (1980), Aloma’s Ruler (1982), Deputed Testamony (1983), Red Bullet (2000), Bernardini (2006), Rachel Alexandra (2009) and Cloud Computing (2017).

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