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And Specials: Glory In Black And White
Synopsis:
CBS
Sports will present a 90-minute documentary, GLORY IN BLACK AND
WHITE: THE STORY OF THE 1966 NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS on Sunday,
March 31 (4:30-6:00 PM, ET) during CBS Sports' Final Four coverage
of the 2002 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.
In a time
when racial integration was just beginning and black athletes
had few choices, the 1966 NCAA Championship game dramatically
changed college basketball forever.
Throughout
the 1950s, integration was slow and nowhere was that more apparent
than in sports. There were only three integrated NCAA Championship
basketball teams during the entire decade. In the 1960s, civil
rights gained momentum, and on March 19, 1966 the NCAA Championship
game played at Cole Field House in College Park, Md. featured
the Miners of Texas Western (Now UTEP), an all black team, versus
Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats, an all white team. Texas Western
became the first team to win the championship game with five African-American
starters. In an event where the focus is usually on success, talent
and achievement, that night there was no avoiding the issue of
race.
Kentucky
was a tradition-heavy basketball program in a conference that
had not yet been integrated. It was Texas Western's head coach
Don Haskin's mission to prove to the entire country that "race
should play no part in assembling a winning team." That championship
night would change the complexion of college basketball forever.
Thirty-two years later, an integrated Kentucky team won the 1998
NCAA Men's Basketball Championship under the leadership of an
African-American coach, Tubby Smith.
Among those
featured in the documentary are Willie Worsley, David Lattin and
Bobby Joe Hill, who played under coach Haskins on the 1966 Championship
team; Pat Riley and Larry Conley, who played under Rupp at Kentucky;
Butch Beard, who chose Louisville over Kentucky; former Georgetown
coach John Thompson, and Maryland head coach Gary Williams, who
was in attendance at the 1966 National Championship game.
Production
Info:
GLORY IN BLACK AND WHITE was produced by Ron Yassen and written
by Steven Stern and Ouise Shapiro. The Senior Producers for Black
Canyon Productions are George Roy and Steven Stern. Joel Feld
is Executive Producer, Black Canyon Productions/Clear Channel
Entertainment Television.
Distinguished
in the television and film industry for their compelling storytelling
style and distinctive, first class programs, Black Canyon Productions,
a unit of Clear Channel Entertainment Television, has been honored
with virtually every prestigious industry award for its work,
including three Peabody Awards and three Sports Emmy awards. The
company, a division of Clear Channel, the world's largest promoter,
producer and presenter of live entertainment, won its second consecutive
Peabody Award this year for "Fists of Freedom," a recollection
of the dramatic gloved-fist demonstration at the 1968 Olympic
Summer Games that aired on HBO last year.
Other notable
credits of Black Canyon Productions include "When It Was a Game
I, II and III" (HBO - 1991, 1992 & 2000); "Long Shots - The Life
and Times of the American Basketball Association" (HBO - 1997);
"Babe Ruth" (HBO - 1998), and "Pistol Pete: The Life and Times
of Pete Maravich" (CBS - 2001).
Airdates:
Premiered on CBS on Sunday, March 31st, 2002 at 4:00pm.
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