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Twitter Reacts To Ghastly Kevin Ware Injury During Sunday's Duke-Louisville Game

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Louisville's Kevin Ware suffered a leg fracture during the first half of Sunday's Elite Eight showdown, an injury so gruesome that CBS declined to show replays.

The injury rapidly hijacked the conversation on Twitter, prompting responses from voices throughout the world of sports, media and entertainment -- everyone from Robert Griffin III to Lil Wayne and even Joe Theismann himself. Here's a sampling of the reaction:

http://twitter.com/lukewinn/status/318477388289822720

http://twitter.com/SIPeteThamel/status/318477709963587584

http://twitter.com/GoodmanCBS/status/318477781505818624

https://twitter.com/JayBilas/status/318477725323112448

http://twitter.com/Dchristmas22/status/318477804427702272

http://twitter.com/michaelb4jordan/status/318477838594502656

http://twitter.com/DSummersTime/status/318478032023216129

http://twitter.com/GoodmanCBS/status/318478272553951233

http://twitter.com/GregAnthony50/status/318478293252853761

http://twitter.com/Mengus22/status/318478453668188161

http://twitter.com/TheOutlaw39/status/318478852701700096

http://twitter.com/mdotbrown/status/318478866828111873

http://twitter.com/GoodmanCBS/status/318478930170478593

http://twitter.com/TheRealMattKemp/status/318478986642595841

http://twitter.com/ESPNDanaOneil/status/318479028698873856

http://twitter.com/RobLowe/status/318479038958161922

http://twitter.com/gregcouch/status/318479102527029248

https://twitter.com/cucoachmac/status/318479281833517057

http://twitter.com/Ldoc32/status/318479123154628608

http://twitter.com/Theismann7/status/318479168188841984

http://twitter.com/slmandel/status/318479310040207361

http://twitter.com/SIPeteThamel/status/318479426931265539

http://twitter.com/LowKeyUHTN/status/318479526793465859

https://twitter.com/KevinHart4real/status/318479864527212544

http://twitter.com/ElizabethBanks/status/318479916003889152

http://twitter.com/Rosenbergradio/status/318480274528808960

https://twitter.com/KirkHerbstreit/status/318480488228593664

http://twitter.com/SarahMaslinNir/status/318481018212454400

http://twitter.com/LilTunechi/status/318481708066435072

http://twitter.com/SITimLayden/status/318482427074990080

http://twitter.com/RGIII/status/318483085689774081

http://twitter.com/mikestutes/status/318483175208787968

https://twitter.com/yungsmoove21/status/318486530287091713

https://twitter.com/MJCWilliams/status/318487974708912128

https://twitter.com/Wale/status/318488533885145088

https://twitter.com/Da_Finster/status/318488627707527169

http://twitter.com/Baron_Davis/status/318489742666764289

https://twitter.com/sinbadbad/status/318492113677479937

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