Louisville players react to teammate Kevin Ware's gruesome leg
injury Sunday. Reuters  This was supposed to be a story about
the joy of reaching the Final Four but I suspect we're all going
to be talking for some time about what happened with about 6½
minutes left in the first half of Sunday night's Louisville-Duke
quarterfinal in Indianapolis. Duke was on offense, and
Louisville guard Kevin Ware leapt to defend a three-point shot,
and when he landed, he appeared to grimly snap his lower right
leg, and fell to the ground. As medical personnel swarmed Ware
in front of the Cardinals' bench, his teammates fell to the
ground, horrified. What exactly had happened? Replays on CBS
confirmed a terrible injury. A cold hush covered Lucas Oil
Stadium. Ware's coach, Rick Pitino, huddled his team in tears.
Duke players stood silently, shaken. The NCAA tournament is
typically such a centrifuge of energy and noise. This was silent
and brutal. A three-week circus with 68 teams suddenly meant so
much less than the immediate f