Eat My Sports: The Kevin Ware edition

Unless you’ve lived in a bubble for the past three days, you’ve undoubtedly heard of a few things. 1. Jesus beat out LL Cool J for best “don’t call it a comeback.” 2. April, fools. 3. Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware had one of the most gruesome injuries we’ve seen, ever, and the kid with a compound fracture was crying for his team.

First things first, props to Louisville’s training staff for going out to cover up the injury and shield Ware from having anyone see his leg that had just snapped at a 90-degree angle. They knew how to protect their player. Second things first, CBS should be ashamed of themselves for replaying that injury as many times as they did. Unnecessary not only for the general public, but for Ware. Majority of us will never go through anything as painful as having one of your legs snapped in half, and CBS kept playing for ratings.

The classiest of the entire situation ended up being Ware himself, who while writhing in pain was yelling for his team to win the game, thus in a painful situation, shows us occasionally why college athletics has more passion than the pro game.

College basketball has a lot of one and done kids who are using college simply as a stepping stone for the NBA, a lot of kids are there for education, and playing because they truly love the game. Before Sunday, I had never heard of Ware, but when I did, and I read about his injury, what struck me is that in the midst of the most pain in his life, he was crying out for his team, not about his leg.