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Rick Pitino’s University of Louisville Cardinals beat John Calipari’s University of Kentucky Wildcats 80-77 on Saturday afternoon.  Every basketball fan in the Commonwealth of Kentucky was watching the game.  Everyone except the Bullitt East Chargers’ fans seated in Birdville Coliseum just outside Ft. Worth, Texas.  Kentucky’s top-ranked prep cage team was playing in the 55th annual Whataburger basketball tournament. The Chargers’ third-round game against Houston’s Spring Westfield Mustangs inconveniently began at the same time as the Commonwealth’s civil war cage match.  Half of the Chargers’ supporters were Wildcat fans, the other half were Cardinal fans.  With one eye on their ...

If you are wondering what the Olympic medal winner Bode Miller has been doing since the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, you need not worry.Miller has had a busy and interesting 2012. It started nine months ago when he had microfracture surgery on his knee, which he is still rehabbing. Miller, who was taking in the World Cup Downhill race in Beaver Creek, Colorado a couple of weeks ago, told the Associated Press that he was not going to rush his recovery. "No one wants to reinjure themselves when they come back from an injury," said Miller, ...

Let me begin by saying this is never an article I envisioned I would ever have to write.There are times in the world where we, the fans, lose sight of what is important in the world. We become so obsessed with free-agency signings, poor performances, wins, losses and lockouts that we forget that the games we become so obsessed with our merely that: games.We clamor for the big-name player, victories, championships and heroes. We at times consider selling all of our possessions just for the opportunity to gain access to a ticket to the big game.We put things like key games, ...

ESPN's First Take frequenter Rob Parker has been suspended by the network Friday as it conducts a full review in the aftermath of Parker's comments about Washington Redskins QB Robert Griffin III on Thursday's broadcast.Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated broke the news on Twitter: Rob Parker has been suspended by ESPN "until further notice." ESPN says "we are conducting a full review."— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) December 14, 2012 The comments were racially tinged and elicited a strong, negative response. Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk documented what Parker said on air:My question is, and it’s just a straight, honest question:  ...

Imagine for a second you're a young athlete, somewhere between the age of eight and 14. You are yet to play high school sports or get into one of the ever-competitive after-school boxing gyms that abound in urban neighborhoods throughout North America. It is likely that in today's day and age you are more concerned with playing "Call of Duty" or "Madden" on your XBox 360 or Playstation 3. If you're lucky you have an iPad, or at least an iPhone, that you use to bump your favorite hip-hop joints while playing said video game. If we're being real honest, the 8-to-14-year-old ...

It's the time of year for the three most nauseating words in our nation’s college sports landscape: “The Bowl Season.” It is the time of year where rivalries between strangers are forced upon us, and matchups between teams are created using every piece of logic except that which is in the game’s (and the fans') best interests.    This year we will be smothered with 35 games, involving 70 schools, stretched out well over the next month.  To put that into perspective, there are 120 total schools in the NCAA’s Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (there's a mouthful), meaning that almost 60 percent ...

It’s the holiday season and I’m sure many of you are either looking for gift ideas for the sports fan in your life or you’re compiling your gift list for Santa. Here’s a list of the LestersLegends’ top ten sports movies.1. Raging BullRobert DeNiro gives an unbelievable performance as Jake LaMotta. Not only is this one of my favorite DeNiro films, it’s one of my favorite Martin Scorsese films, as well. Joe Pesci is also amazing.2. RockyGiven the fact that I was born in Philadelphia, I should probably have this in the top spot. I guess that illustrates how much ...