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MOVIE REVIEWJustice at stake in film’sBY ROGER EBERTI'NKKKMI. hth Sh MUt VI*“(dory Road” (★**) is like other sports movies, and different from all of them. It is the same in the way it shows a rookie coach with an underdo# team; he finds resistance ffoin his players at first, he impost's his system and is a merciless taskmaster, and do I have to ask you if they win the big game? This has been the formula for countless films, and (dory Road” will not be the last.Rut the movie is not really about underdogs and winning the big game. It’s about racism in American sports, and how Coach Don Haskins and his players on the 1965-66 basketball team from Texas WesternUniversity made a breakthrough comparable to that moment when the Dodgers hired Jackie Robinson.In Texas at that time, we learn, college basketball teams hail been integrated, but there was an “informal rule” that you never played more than one black player at home, two on the road, or three if you were behindAfter Texas Western won the 1966 NCAA championship with an all-black team, defeating an all-white Kentucky team coached by the legendary Adolph Rupp, the rules were rewritten, and modern college and professional basketball began.‘GLORY ROAD,' ste Pagele
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Jacksonville Journal Courier
Jacksonville, Illinois, US
Thu, Jan 12, 2006
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