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          YouTube's top sports videos of 2012

          An NBA star, a clever idea and a whole lot of makeup made for the year's top trending YouTube clip in sports. David Liam Kyle/NBAE/Getty Images
          Dec 21, 2012
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              Katie Linendoll is an Emmy Award-winning technology expert contributing to ESPN, ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. She contributes tech segments to CNN and hosts a tech show on Spike TV. She has a degree in Information Technology New Media from Rochester Institute of Technology and is a diehard Buffalo Bills fan.
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          The results are in, and the top YouTube sports trending videos of 2012 have been announced.

          What could have possibly beaten out the U.S. Olympic swim team's lip-dub version of the unstoppable bubble-gum force that is Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe"?

          Let's just say the winner, with 18.3 million views and counting, is a mystery man that's a lot younger than you might think at first glance ...

          To see YouTube's top trending sports videos, click here.