Don Haskins was about more than winning
When Glory Road came out a few years ago, Don Haskins got a different reaction from when he lived it the first time.
The Bear had no idea what he was getting himself into when he started five black Texas Western players in the 1966 NCAA basketball championship game against Kentucky. Wanting simply to win, he started his best players.
“I was young,” he told The Dallas Morning News in 2005, “and I wasn’t thinking.”
He didn’t mean he wouldn’t have done it. He meant he had no idea people could be so ugly, ignorant and cruel.
dallasnews.com
9/8/08
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