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Current Events Sample LSAT Question!!!
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 10:58 pm
by LSWin
Jim Gray: "Does the team you've chosen to play on next year know your decision yet?"
Lebron James: "They just found out..."
Based on the above discussion, which of the following can be properly inferred?
A: The Cleveland Cavs do not know his decision
B: Lebron James is lying, he would never spoil the surprise for the team. Lebron loves surprises
C: All teams know at least one team he will not be playing on next year
D: The teams that Lebron will not be playing on next year do not know they were not chosen
E: If a team is not going to have Lebron playing on it next year, they know he will be playing for the Miami Heat
Tried my hand at it

Re: Current Events Sample LSAT Question!!!
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:12 pm
by thexfactor
answer is c
jxtxdx wrote:Jim Gray: "Does the team you've chosen to play on next year know your decision yet?"
Lebron James: "They just found out..."
Based on the above discussion, which of the following can be properly inferred?
A: The Cleveland Cavs do not know his decision
B: Lebron James is lying, he would never spoil the surprise for the team. Lebron loves surprises
C: All teams know at least one team he will not be playing on next year
D: The teams that Lebron will not be playing on next year do not know they were not chosen
E: If a team is not going to have Lebron playing on it next year, they know he will be playing for the Miami Heat
Tried my hand at it

Re: Current Events Sample LSAT Question!!!
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:21 pm
by djjf39
The answer if F: After 20 minutes of commercials most people know Lebron is a narcissistic self-promoting schmuck
Re: Current Events Sample LSAT Question!!!
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:28 pm
by LSWin
I think F gets it lol
Re: Current Events Sample LSAT Question!!!
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:31 pm
by truffleshuffle
djjf39 wrote:The answer if F: After 20 minutes of commercials most people know Lebron is a narcissistic self-promoting schmuck
Will Leitch of the New Yorker wrote a piece on this that is deadly accurate:
http://nymag.com/daily/sports/2010/07/l ... ing_a.html
Will Leitch wrote:tonight, it felt like everyone involved — LeBron, ESPN, Bing, the University of Phoenix, Stuart Scott, the man who once chastised fans for having the audacity to boo, Jim freaking Gray — treated the millions of people watching like stupid, mindless consumers, empty lemmings ready to follow Sport into the abyss. Here, here are the Boys & Girls Club props. Here, here is your search engine. Here, here is your online college, Here, here is your Athletic Hero. Eat. Eat. Consume. You like it. You love it. You'll always come back for more.
Re: Current Events Sample LSAT Question!!!
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:34 pm
by djjf39
truffleshuffle wrote:
Will Leitch of the New Yorker wrote a piece on this that is deadly accurate
+1
Had not read this piece but the quote is fabulous