Football

Today is a THEME DAY. Theme days can be overt, or they can be subtle and connected, in such a way that figuring out the theme may help you answer the questions.

**Happy start of the third round of the NCAA basketball tournament featuring 16 teams.**

The fifth-place vote getter for the 2011 Heisman Trophy, won by Robert Griffin III, could console himself that he won that year’s Chuck Bednarik Award. (And that his team went undefeated until the national championship game.) Name him.

Tyrann Mathieu

Basketball

Despite finishing the regular season with a losing record, the Sonics made a surprising run to the Western Conference Finals in 1987. What 2-seed did they upset in the first round of the playoffs that year? Prior to the season, the team in question traded Dale Ellis, who averaged nearly 30 points per game in the series, to Seattle for Al Wood, who played his final NBA game before the playoffs even began. 

Dallas Mavericks

Hockey

Also known for an exuberant sliding goal celebration, what diminutive mostly-Flames forward set off an international incident by "firing" his stick like a machine gun at the Soviet bench after an early goal during the World Juniors final in 1987? The ensuing fight is still known as the Punch-Up in Piestany.

Theoren Fleury