Movie- Glory Road

This movie is one of my personal favorites if not my favorite. This film is a true story that showed us what it takes to become champions.The setting is 1966 in Texas. The movie was how one man named Don Haskins, who recruited African- American players to play on a basketball, which in this time there was segregation. He took alot of heat for it but he was not looking at the color of there skin he was looking at there talent because he wanted to win. Heading into the season with 7 black athlets and 5 whites raised alot eye brows for this. The first game of the season he started 3 blacks and 2 whites. They went on and won 27 out of 28 games and was ranked number 3 in the nation.

The movie showed us how harsh it was to be black back then. The fans were throwing things at the players using racial slurs and it was horrible. But the way the players both black and white came together to reach one common goal and that was to win the championship it was amazing. Don Haskins and Texas Western University now known as University of Texas at El Paso was the first team in history to start 5 African American athletes in a game. The other players didn't like it but the coach wanted to make a statement and he did in a big way beating the heavy favorite University of Kentucky. This movie was good, even though slant magazine gave it 1 star, but others as christian answers .net gave it 3 stars and yahoo gave it a B+. This is my favorite movie. YOU GOTTA SEE IT!!!