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One would think basketball would pose particular challenges for Ryan Leonard, since he was born without any arms. It turns out — as you can see in this video — that Leonard has no problem hitting a difficult half court shot.

Top seeds Kentucky and North Carolina joined Kansas and Baylor in advancing to the regional finals of the 2012 NCAA tournament on Friday. Here’s a recap of Friday’s NCAA tournament games:

“Success in the NBA is more about the players, and less about the coach, than any league, pro or amateur, in U.S. sports,” wrote Gregg Doyel of CBS Sports in 1999. “More and more, superstars call the shots,” said Sports Illustrated’s five years prior. Each year that goes by seems to give the players more power and make coaches more vulnerable.

The country is rapidly approaching March Madness, an annual celebration of rabid sports fandom and hallowed college tradition. Every year, NCAA fans follow their alma mater or college they’d go to if grades and criminal records didn’t matter from hope and glory to everlasting victory or crushing defeat.

Trick shot videos are popping up all over the internet these days and Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash makes a pretty unbelievable one that combines both his basketball and soccer skills (he was a footie star as a youth, FYI) in this ad for Chinese athletic apparel company Lu You. This definitely isn’t a guy you’d want to play in H-O-R-S-E. Now the question is, did he make it in one take?

Atlanta-based rocker Aaron Keyes ended an epic game of H-O-R-S-E when he dunked on an arcade basketball game. Lucky for us, YouTube comedy duo Tripp and Tyler caught it all on film. Take a good look at that form. Look at that extension, that poise. This is the last man you’d want to come up against if you were down to your final letter (well, one of the last).

Robert Kasmir, an accounting professor at George Washington University, was honored over the weekend before a GW men's basketball game for financial contributions he had made to the university's athletic department. After the ceremony he took a seat in the front row to watch the game and ended up getting himself ejected in the second half for heckling the referee. As you can see from the video, Kasmir got a much bigger kick (and a much bigger ovation) out of the ejection than he did the ceremony. Click the "Read More" link for the video.