Sad news,
Don Haskins died on Sunday. Haskins was the coach of the 1966 Texas Western team that started 5 African Americans and won the NCAA championship, beating powerhouse Kentucky and legendary coach Adolph Rupp who has fairly or unfairly received a reputation for snubbing black stars and not recruiting them. The link to ESPN writer Andy Katz's eulogy of Haskins is here:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=katz_andy&id=3574928&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab5pos1
Some may remember the movie based on that season entitled Glory Road. Apparently that was the title of a memoir that Haskins co-authored about that season. The Amazon link for that memoir is here:
http://www.amazon.com/Glory-Road-Basketball-Championship-Triumphed/dp/1401307914/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220904981&sr=8-1
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