On the page here at the University of Texas at El Paso website you can meet the members of the basketball team that won the 1966 NCAA. The school was then known as Texas Western College. Today the movie Glory Road opens depicting the road to a victory in which five black players took the court in Kentucky during the championship game. I was living in El Paso at the time; the city has been my family’s home since the late 19th century. I was offended a bit when the New York Times movie review today referred to our local college as “a dusty, shabby place.” It is actually surprising how provincial the Times is and how cosmopolitan El Pasoans are. I make this post not to bother with that, but because the access the team webpage gives you to the true story of the players’ lives is a terrific example of how thoroughly the online world itself is nonprovincial. The positive careers the players have had after college, by the way, the best part of the story.
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