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The Alamo, a key battle site between Mexican and Texas Americans during the Texas Revolution, is the symbolic tourist attraction in downtown San Antonio, Tx. A guard surveyed the perimeter on Thursday, April 3, 2008.

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Boatloads of NCAA basketball fans explore the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Tx., on Thursday, April 3, 2008. Kansas takes on Roy Wiliams' North Carolina Tarheels on Saturday in the semi-final NCAA tournament game.

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Tourists surround the Alamo, a key battle site between Mexican and Texas Americans during the Texas Revolution, on Thursday, April 3, 2008.

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Event workers roll tables into the Hilton Hotel, which is shrouded in a two-story banner welcoming NCAA basketball fans to San Antonio, Tx., for the Final Four on Thursday, April 3, 2008. The southern Texas city bustled with activity as basketball fans arrived two days before the semifinal games basketball games between Kansas and North Carolina, and Memphis and UCLA.

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Wrapped in Final Four attire, the Alamodome in San Antonio is the site of the Final Four where Kansas will take on North Carolina and Memphis will battle UCLA. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley have made a wager of barbecue on the winner of the game. The winning governor is set to receive barbecue sent by the governor of the losing state.

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Kansas fan Cameron Walton, 11 from Ft. Worth, Tx., leads Jordan McShan, 11, from Keller, Tx., and Tanner Hilton, 11, from Ft. Worth, Tx., on a tour of the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Tx., on Thursday, April 3, 2008.

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Kansas Basketball band members, Tyler Metzger, Oskaloosa junior, Daniel Hames, Wichita senior, Andrew Fyler, Lawrence junior and Shane Williams, Shawnee Mission senior, recite the Rock Chalk Chant along the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Tx., for television crews and passersby on Thursday, April 3, 2008.

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Members of the Kansas University basketball band and cheer squad break into the Rock Chalk Chant for a television crew along the Riverwalk in San Antonio. KU fans spread their Jayhawk cheer Thursday in anticipation of Saturday's Final Four game against North Carolina.

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A panoramic image shows tourists as they make their way around the site of the Alamo Thursday, April 3, 2008 in downtown San Antonio.

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The lunch crowd gathers at restaurant tables aligning the Riverwalk as others tour the city on riverboats Thursday, April 3, 2008 in San Antonio.

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Seated is former Spurs great David Robinson, judging the dunk contest. Picking up a sense that he's kinda royalty in these parts.

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L-R, Texas WR and NFL Draft hopeful Limas Sweed, former Texas Safety (currently with Oakland Raiders) Michael Huff and former Cowboy great Emmitt Smith. They were judges Thursday night.

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Georgetown coach John Thompson III (In blue shirt, texting away)

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Former Cincy/K-State coach, current West Virginia coach Bob Huggins

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J.R. Giddens and David Padgett, seeing each other for the first time in 'a couple of years'. This was before Giddens' first dunk. He made it to the semifinals Thursday.

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Former KU center David Padgett (In grey shirt). He's in town for the NABC All-Star game, being played Friday, and took in the three-point and dunk competitions Thursday night.

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Keith Loneker, second from left, joins George Clooney and John Krasinski in the football comedy "Leatherheads." This is the second film Loneker, a former KU Jayhawks offensive lineman and NFL player, has made with Clooney.

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Keith Loneker rehearses a locker room scene on the set of "Leatherheads." The actor earned All Big Eight honors three times while playing football for the Kansas Jayhawks.

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Avery Sloyer, 15 months, daughter of Stephanie and Matt Sloyer, cheers her Jayhawks on to the Final Four.

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Keegan Guy watches the Jayhawks overcome Davidson to earn their trip to the Final Four in San Antonio.

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Jayhawk shrine, St. Louis style!

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KU forward Darnell Jackson hoists a piece of net after KU advanced to the Final Four on Sunday.

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KU football coach Mark Mangino celebrates after the Jayhawks won the Orange Bowl on Jan. 3.

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Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins observes post-victory festivities at Allen Fieldhouse while chewing on a cigar.

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Tom Crean shows off a shirt after being introduced as Indiana's men's basketball coach. Crean met the media Wednesday in Bloomington, Ind.

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Members of the Sullivan family of Lawrence take great pride in their downstairs room that is a tribute to everything Jayhawk. From left are Bailey, 11, her father, Dan Sullivan, and sister Reagan, 8.

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