Sports Quiz: Kentucky Colonels

By Ryan A. Berenz

1. Who portrayed sportscaster Howard Cosell in the 2002 TV movie "Monday Night Mayhem," which dramatized the origins of "Monday Night Football"?

2. Name the Indian-American gymnast who won a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics and has an uneven bars salto named after her in the Code of Points.

3. The Norfolk Neptunes, Hartford Charter Oaks, Wheeling Ironmen and Charleston Rockets were teams in what pro football league that played five seasons from 1965-69?

4. What two English Premier League football clubs from the West Midlands compete in a rivalry known as the Black Country derby?

5. What boxer, known as "The Harlem Hammer," was sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for the 2004 slaying of sports journalist Sam Kellerman?

6. In 1995, sportscaster Bob Papa succeeded Jim Gordon as the radio play-by-play voice of what NFL team?

7. What member of the Kentucky Colonels was selected No. 1 overall by the Chicago Bulls in the 1976 ABA dispersal draft?

Answers

1. John Turturro.

2. Mohini Bhardwaj.

3. The Continental Football League (COFL).

4. Wolverhampton Wanderers and West Bromwich Albion.

5. James Butler Jr.

6. The New York Giants.

7. Artis Gilmore.

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