David Kingsley Snell

Baron and the Bear (eBook, ePUB)

Rupp's Runts, Haskins's Miners, and the Season That Changed Basketball Forever

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Produktbeschreibung

In the 1966 NCAA basketball championship game, an all-white University of Kentucky team was beaten by a team from Texas Western College (now UTEP) that fielded only black players. The game, played in the middle of the racially turbulent 1960s-part David and Goliath in short pants, part emancipation proclamation of college basketball-helped destroy stereotypes about black athletes. Filled with revealing anecdotes, The Baron and the Bear is the story of two intensely passionate coaches and the teams they led through the ups and downs of a college basketball season. In the twilight of his legendary career, Kentucky's Adolph Rupp ("The Baron of the Bluegrass") was seeking his fifth NCAA championship. Texas Western's Don Haskins ("The Bear" to his players) had been coaching at a small West Texas high school just five years before the championship. After this history-making game, conventional wisdom that black players lacked the discipline to win without a white player to lead began to dissolve. Northern schools began to abandon unwritten quotas limiting the number of blacks on the court at one time. Southern schools, where athletics had always been a whites-only activity, began a gradual move toward integration. David Kingsley Snell brings the season to life, offering fresh insights on the teams, the coaches, and the impact of the game on race relations in America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803296473
• Artikelnr.: 47048300

Autorenporträt

David Kingsley Snell was a correspondent for ABC News covering everything from the Vietnam War to presidential campaigns to Apollo lunar missions. He is the author of Mike Fright: How to Succeed in Media Interviews When Mike Wallace Comes Calling. Nolan Richardson played for Texas Western under Don Haskins from 1961 to 1963. The first African American coach at a major southern university, he had a Hall of Fame coaching career at the University of Arkansas from 1985 to 2002 and led the Razorbacks to a national championship in 1994.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Prologue
1. A Drop of Water
2. “No Good, Even If It Goes!”
3. A New Direction
4. Brothers against the Bastard
5. The True Religion
6. The Big Change
7. A Synchronized Leap
8. Finding His Team
9. He Didn’t Recruit; He Chose
10. Never Gave It a Thought
11. Intensity, Thy Name Is Adolph
12. The Haskins Way
13. “Quite Improbable”
14. The Games Were the Break
15. Seeing Things I Really Like
16. Things That I Can’t
17. Give Iowa a Try
18. Neutral-Court Advantage
19. The Break from Hell
20. “The Secret of Basketball”
21. Togo Time
22. Clyde and the Commodores
23. They Could Be Very Good
24. The Naked Truth
25. Working Hard and Hardly Working
26. Tennessee Two-Step
27. Seattle Surprise
28. The Mountain Man and Cazzie
29. Time and Overtime
30. Larry Conley’s Ass
31. The Runnin’ Utes
32. The Real Championship Game
33. The Smart Money
34. And Then There Was David
35. An Unreal Thing
36. A Matter of Pride
37. He Changed Basketball
Epilogue
Where Are They Now?
Acknowledgments
Appendix: 1965–66 Team Rosters and Season Results
Index