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Wyoming's Rulon Gardner may be the biggest name in wrestling after his upset of previously undefeated Alexander Karelin in the Olympic Greco-Roman super heavyweight finals, but his family has famous basketball connections, too. Vern Gardner, the University of Utah basketball All-American, and Reed Gardner, Rulon's dad, are cousins.
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