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Participants in the first-ever NBA All-Star Game H-O-R-S-E competition, to take place this weekend in Phoenix. Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant, Memphis' O.J. Mayo and Atlanta's Joe Johnson were selected to participate in the event on Saturday night. Dunking will not be allowed in the competition, in which contestants will have 24 seconds to execute their shots and will be judged by an NBA referee.
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Field goals made by the Jumbo women's basketball team over the final 14:30 of the second half in last Saturday's 54-48 loss to Amherst. With the defeat, Tufts fell from first to third place in the NESCAC and now sits behind Amherst and Bowdoin. With just a Saturday home game against Bates remaining on its conference schedule, Tufts must win to keep its regular-season championship hopes alive.
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Average penalty minutes per game for the Jumbo hockey team, a mark which leads the NESCAC. This weekend, in back-to-back road losses to Trinity and Wesleyan, Tufts racked up an aggregate 39 minutes in the box on 18 penalties. Despite the losses and the unusually high penalty minutes, the Jumbos remain in eighth place in the NESCAC and will return home this weekend for games against Salem State and Southern Maine.
$100,000
The bidding price of the bong out of which Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps smoked, as posted on eBay. Yesterday, eight people connected to the University of South Carolina party at which the photograph of Phelps was taken were arrested by the Richland County Sheriff's Department. Phelps has already lost his Kellogg's sponsorship and is currently debating whether or not to swim in the 2012 Olympics.
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Baseball player, out of 104 positive urine samples, whose name was released to the public last Saturday. New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez was the only player named in the 2003 list. Rodriguez tested positive for testosterone and an anabolic steroid called Primobolan. In an interview with ESPN on Monday, Rodriguez admitted to using banned substances for three years while with the Texas Rangers.
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Win percentage for the Tufts women's swimming and diving team this year in its nine head-to-head meets. The Jumbos rounded out their dual meet season on Jan. 31 with two victories at Bates and carried that momentum into last weekend's unscored Middlebury Invitational. Up next for Tufts is the NESCAC meet at Bowdoin from Feb. 20 to Feb. 22.
