{"id":20388,"date":"2013-04-01T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20388"},"modified":"2013-04-01T15:31:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T19:31:18","slug":"louisvilles-ware-breaks-leg-in-game-has-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20388","title":{"rendered":"Louisville\u2019s Ware Breaks Leg In Game, Has Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 A gruesome injury that left Louisville guard <strong>Kevin Ware<\/strong> with a broken leg plunged Lucas Oil Stadium into horrified silence, with coach <strong>Rick Pitino<\/strong> wiping away tears and shocked teammates openly weeping during Sunday\u2019s Midwest Regional final.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ware\u2019s<\/strong> right leg bent in such an awkward and frightening angle that CBS stopped showing replays shortly after the fall in the NCAA tournament matchup against Duke. He was taken into surgery at Methodist Hospital after the game to repair the fracture. School officials said the leg, broken in two places, was reset and a rod inserted into his right tibia. <strong>Ware<\/strong> is expected to stay in Indianapolis until at least Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Even as he was being treated on the court, <strong>Ware<\/strong> was encouraging his teammates, <strong>Pitino<\/strong> said.\u00a0\u201cThe bone\u2019s 6 inches out of his leg and all he\u2019s yelling is, \u2018Win the game, win the game,\u2019\u201c <strong>Pitino<\/strong> said. \u201cI\u2019ve not seen that in my life. &#8230; Pretty special young man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 A gruesome injury that left Louisville guard Kevin Ware with a broken leg plunged Lucas Oil Stadium into horrified silence, with coach Rick Pitino wiping away tears and shocked teammates openly weeping during Sunday\u2019s Midwest Regional final. Ware\u2019s right leg bent in such an awkward and frightening angle that CBS stopped showing replays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}