"Just go win this game for me. Don't worry close me. I'm fine. Just go win this game. "
-- Kevin Ware
How can you non attract back for Louisville?
Up until late good afternoon yesterday, that befoolmed an unlikely sentiment. Who wants to root for Goliath? Who wants to root for the top boilersuit seed of the tournament, a team that has been running roughshod everyplace everyone for the past two weeks? Who wants to root for the obvious?
Wouldn't you rather root for Syracuse, which concluded the regular time of year three weeks ago with the closely humiliating loss of the Boeheim Era, just to activate a parvenu level of their zone D?
Wouldn't you rather root for Michigan, sparking memories of the mythological Five by zipping through the South region -- including that stomping of Florida -- and reclaiming home(a) relevance?
Under other circumstances, maybe. But -- trying without success not to be maudlin -- you can't have watched Kevin Ware's injury, his teammates' devastated reactions and not want to see Louisville complete a run to the championship in his honor.
We husking rooting interest in a lot of ways: Bracket accuracy. Team or conference loyalty. An unexpected amusement bandwagon.
In this case, it is that basic human instinct of sympathy -- not just rooting for Kevin Ware, but all the way to rooting for the only fitting conclusion for this Louisville team: a title.
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The latest on Ware: His surgery was successful, thank goodness.
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Photo of the Day: Peyton Siva's Instagram from Kevin Ware's bedside:
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If you made your picks exploitation President Obama's bracket, you would be outperforming 91% of the country right now.
If you made your picks using the " depicted object Bracket" aggregate of everyone's picks, you would be outperforming 71% of the country right now.
If you made your picks using my bracket, you would be outperforming 93% of the country right now (a tot up that will plummet, because I picked Florida to win it all).
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More of today's winners:
*Louisville women's hoops: Stuns No. 1 Baylor, in the biggest upset of the year in sports.
*Houston Astros: Presumptive AL bottom-feeder opens MLB season with huge win.
*Nick Stauskas: Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr. and Glenn Robinson III and Mitch McGary get most of the publicity, but Stauskas' 3s were the difference in the win.
*Miami Heat: Even without LeBron and D-Wade, crush the Spurs. Bosh!
*MLB Opening Day mania: Don't miss our annual MLB Salaries Database.
Quick-hit pass 5: Storylines of MLB Opening Day
(1) Stephen Strasburg's return, anchoring the NL's presumptive favorites.
(2) Giants-Dodgers, in a mesh of defending champ vs. biggest rival.
(3) Aces everywhere: Verlander! King Felix! Kershaw!
(4) The Royals: Yes, the Royals! Trendy pick for uncovering team.
(5) Yankees-Red Sox: (But really? Meh. Just not what it used to be.)
*Geno Smith: Could the Chiefs actually perplex him No. 1? (Short answer: No.)
*Elvis Andrus: Rangers SS the latest top MLB gift to sign a big extension.
*Jackie Bradley Jr.: Rookie getting the lay out in LF for the Red Sox on Opening Day.
*Kevin Kolb: Anointed as the computed tomography to get the Bills over the hump! No problem!
Today on SportsOnEarth.com: Reasons to watch all 30 MLB teams.
Quote of the Day: "We won this for him." Rick Pitino, about Kevin Ware.
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Materials taken from USA Today
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