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April IO, 2013 $Iortlanò (Obstruer Career^ E ducation SP E C IA L E D IT IO N Page 13 Top Seeded Cardinals Win Title Monster game caps emotional quest (A P)— The last of the Louisville players to get the scissors, Kevin Ware stood in front of the basket as it was lowered to him. Grinning from ear to ear, he cut what remained of the net. "It's not about me, I've never been that type of guy," Ware said. "These are my brothers. They got the job done." They always do. A team that found inspiration in Ware's horrible broken leg wasn't about to let a little thing like an off night by its biggest star, Russ Smith, keep it from cutting down the nets. Luke Hancock made four straight 3- pointers in the first half, and Peyton Siva and Chane Behanan had mon ster second halves to lead the top- seeded Cardinals to their third na tional title and first since 1986 on Monday night with an 82-76 victory over Michigan. "I'm so happy for our team," said Hancock, named the tournament's most outstanding player. "I'm so happy that multiple guys got to contribute on this great run." The Legend "Kevin Ware would do anything to be out there. We were just all locked in for him, and also for our selves and our coaching staff," said Behanan, Ware's best friend on the team. "Kevin was a big part o f this team, and to see him go down was devastating. It was a big motivator for us." Hancock finished with 22 points, including a perfect 5 for 5 from 3- point range. Siva had 14 of his 18 points in the second half, and Behanan had 11 of his 12 rebounds in the second half. Behanan also chipped in 15 points for Louisville (35-5), which finished the season on a 16-game winning streak. "We beat a great basketball team probably because I have the 13 toughest guys I have ever coached," said Rick Pitino, who became the first coach to win titles with two different schools hours after he was Louisville head coach Rick Pitino and Louisville guard Peyton Siva (3) reacts after Louisville de elected to the Naismith Hall of Fame. feated Michigan in the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball championship game Monday Pitino, who sets the fashion trend in Atlanta. Louisville won 82-76. (AP photo) among college coaches with his And every one of them was in on arm, earned them to the mosh pit win" after his tibia snapped during designer suits, now has to get a the celebration. that quickly formed at center court, the Midwest Regional final, and he tattoo afterpromising his team early Siva leaped off the floor to hug In the most touching moment o f made good on his promise to join in the year he'd get inked if they won his family when the final buzzer all, Ware hobbled onto the court for them when they cut down the nets, the title. sounded. Behanan picked up two the final seconds of the game. He cheerleaders and, with one in each had urged his teammates to "just go that's ever going to be eradicated. Society has to stay on guard about it and not get complacent about it." continued from page 11 Boseman, who bears a remark a pitcher who'd dinged him earlier able resem blance to Robinson, in the year, it's a dramatic moment, grew up playing basketball but said but it also actually happened. he learned of Robinson's impor It's always a tricky thing be tance around the same time he first cause it's a movie, and even in this learned of Martin Luther King Jr.'s movie we're trying to tell two years crucial role in fighting for civil rights in two hours," he said. "You're Robinson's uniform number has obviously not seeing every m o been retired throughout the league ment, but the discipline I applied to - only New York Yankees closer the script was trying to make sure Mariano Rivera still wears it, and every moment was documented." he's retiring after this season - but Helgeland began working on the every year on April 15, everyone in film two years ago, with the bless baseball wears No. 42. ing of Robinson's widow, Rachel, "The story is relevant because because he felt Robinson "deserves we still stand on his shoulders. a great, big m ovie." Robinson him He started som ething - I would self starred in the 1950 biography even say m aybe he didn't even "The Jackie R obinson Story," start it, it started before him. But which also details how Brooklyn he carried the torch. And he car Dodgers president and general ried it alone for a period of time manager Branch Rickey (played before other people could help here by a feisty Harrison Ford) had him," Bosem an said. the courage to sign the fleet-footed Still, it's a challenge to depict the Negro League player, despite re life of someone who was so inspi ceiv in g d isco u rag em en t from rational without deifying him. around the league and death threats In "42," which opens Friday, from fans. April 12, Robinson shows grace in "People would say to me, 'You're the face of nearly incessant big making another Jackie Robinson otry. That's why Rickey chooses movie?' and I'd say, 'What was the him of all the talented black base other one you saw?"' Helgeland ball players at the time: He had the said. "(Racism is) always going to skills, but he also had the strength be a relevant thing. It's not a thing not to fight back. Abusive Coach Fired (A P )--O n ce the video went viral, his coaching Rutgers University days at Rutgers were over. fired basketball Mike Rice Jr., the son of Blazer broadcaster Mike coach Mike Rice Rice, was fired last week, one day after a video Jr. after a video surfaced of him hitting, shoving and berating his was made public players with anti-gay slurs. The taunts were espe o f him kicking cially troubling behavior at Rutgers, where freshman and shoving studentTylerClementi killedhimself in 2010afterhis players and roommate used a webcam to spy on him kissing spew ingla^shj'rs another man in his dorm. , . ® s A ■ d • . • .. . ■. , o during practices. Rice, in his third season with the Scarlet Knights, apologized outside his home in Little Silver, N. J. "I've let so many people down: SHEET *N my players, my adm inistration, Rutgers University, the fans, my B nut? ’TREET family," he said. The video shows numerous clips of Rice at practice during his three years at the school firing basketballs at players, hitting them in the back, ll legs, feet and shoulders. It also shows him grabbing players by their jersey s and yanking them around the court. Rice can also be heard yelling ob scenities and using gay slurs. on the comer of MLK and Lombard Several college coaches said they Spring had never seen anything like the Special ca ll 503-995-6150 to p la c e ord er Rutgers video and it broke a cardinal Monday - Saturday, 11:00am - 7:00pm rule: Never put your hands on a player. _____ tell ____ _ w______Wednesday Special: 3 W ings $2.00 "Don't me that's the old way. That's the wrong way," said John i Friday Special: Rib Sandw ich, B eef or Pork, $4.00 r h°m pson Jr., the Hall of Famer Buy / D in n er a n d g e t 1 f o r h a lf price W ednesday & F riday who led Georgetown to the 1984 national title. Expires June 1, 2012 “I I Sweet Street Food Cart I I I
