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Rafael Araujo. What a stiff this guy was. I think he got half of his rebounds when opposition players missed the second free throw. Last I heard, he was working for a loan shark as a debt collector.

Jud Buechler. Jud was part of the second Chicago Bulls 'threepeat' teams, with NBA Championship rings for 1996-98. I had WGN Chicago Superstation as part of my cable TV package in the late 1990's, and I saw many Bulls games. Jud usually played the same ten minutes of every game; the last two...

Gene Conley. Conley played Major League Baseball from 1952-63. He was a 4 time All Star, including twice in 1959, and he was a World Series Champion, as a member of the 1957 Milwaukee Braves. Conley also played in the NBA in 1952-53 then again from 1958-68. He was a three time NBA Champion...

Ferguson Jenkins. Jenkins played for the Globetrotters during the baseball offseason in 1967-69. I'm not sure what the Cubs were paying him then, but according to baseball-reference(dot)com, his 1970 salary was $62,000, following three straight 20 Win seasons.

Walt Bellamy. In the 1968-69 season, Bellamy played 35 games for the New York Knicks and 53 for the Detroit Pistons.

Ooops, there are only two, Errol Thompson and Billy McMillan. Forbes Kennedy was raised in PEI, but was born in New Brunswick.

Jim Mason. Mason hit .165 for the 1977 Blue Jays before he was traded to the Texas Rangers. He hit a home run in his only World Series at bat, for the 1976 New York Yankees.

Two former NBA players, both with multiple NBA Championship rings, were also EuroLeague Champions and Olympic Gold medalists. Name either or both. Nope. Marc Gasol has only one NBA Championship ring, and neither Gasol brother won an Olympic Gold medal.

Which former Toronto Raptor graduated from an Ivy League University? Correct!

Which former Toronto Raptor graduated from an Ivy League University? Answered correctly by knees.

Two former NBA players, both with multiple NBA Championship rings, were also EuroLeague Champions and Olympic Gold medalists. Name either or both.

"Wait 'til he knows what little old Elkie's got.".

It would have been worse if P Diddy had been there, filming.

There was a softball diamond behind the Moss Park arena at Sherbourne and Queen Street East until they started to build a station for the Queen Street subway line on that spot. I used to watch some of the mixed 'pitch to your own team' beer league softball games there. What struck me as unusual...

Back in the day, gym teachers did a lot of body shaming, to motivate students to not be content to be out of shape. Now they get fired for doing that. Dove soap's advertising slogan for many years has been 'Love the skin you're in', and the company has been praised for having an abundance of...

Who was the most recent American-born driver to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix? Correct! Revson won the 1973 Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport Park.

You admit that?

The global economy would benefit if average life expectancy dropped significantly. There aren't too many people on Earth, but a disproportionate number of them are old, and not enough of them in the developed world are young.

Who am I? A character with my first name, and based on me, appeared in Bull Tales, Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip which appeared in The Yale Daily News. I was a four-time NFL Pro Bowler, and I was the first player for my NFL franchise to rush for more than 1,000 yards in a season. I...

Who was the most recent American-born driver to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix? Nope. Mario Andretti was born in 1940 in Montona, Istria: which was then part of the Kingdom of Italy, but is now part of Croatia.