Comments on: “Glory Road”

By: Jones Brooks

Jones Brooks — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:57:25 +0000

Google is the best search engine

By: Fred Balding

Fred Balding — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:57:33 +0000

In fact, Kentucky’s loss to Texas Western was THE key to Coach Rupp recruiting of 6′ 10″ Center Tom Payne the very next year. I believe Payne played all four years for UK, graduating in 1970.

“Glory Road” is right up there with “Remember The Titans” as the most significant sports movies of all time, IMHO.

Let’s start another “Kentucky / Texas” story line for an inspirational blockbuster about reconciliation and harmonius relationship! Meet me at the Kentucky Convention Center in downtown Louisville this coming June 27 - 30! Whaddaya say?

By: KentF

KentF — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:58:00 +0000

Go watch the Fox Sports Network Road to Glory episode depicting the brutal racial violence that Jerry Levias and others experienced breaking the color barrier in football in the Southwest Conference in the 1960’s. It was very real. To this day Levias (from SMU) still knows the white player from Alabama that spit in his face and, to this day, never apologized for it. According to Jerry the man is well known by many.

By: Larry James

Larry James — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 23:10:00 +0000

Thanks for this post, Mike. Can’t wait to see the movie.

The racism was very real and, unfortunately, it still exists.

I remember traveling across the South when I played football at Harding College in the late 1960s. Those of us who were white were forced to confront the reality of racism as we watched our black friends and teammates “invited” to leave various places simply because of the color of their skin.

As whites, we were never asked to leave. Of course, we always joined our friends in walking out, but we felt terrible.

I saw some of the same attitudes at Harding, just more subtle.

We continue to witness it Dallas, San Antonio and New Orleans–places where we are working. Again, the forces are more subtle, sophisticated and incidious. The systemic forces that cut against the poor are powerful.

Let’s keep up the fight of our faith. Thanks for your words and your heart.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:35:00 +0000

I am proud to say I am from El Paso, and have followed Don Haskins and UTEP (what Texas Western is called now) Basketball my whole life. The things that is so funny to me is how Haskins has said countless time that he was just playing his best players. Whether they were black and white did not matter to him.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:08:00 +0000

Sam loved Glory Road and talked to me about the racial tension he had witnessed in the movie..that really got his attention.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:42:00 +0000

http://www.npr.org/news/specials/march40th/speeches.html

Go to this site to listen to MLK, Jr’s voice. When I taught 6 year old boys, I found that hearing his voice added tremendous impact to his words. It always amazed me how young children seemed to truly understand his message. When I found clips on the internet that would play excerpts of the “I Have a Dream” speech, the students would ask to listen to it over and over.