Today a great basketball coach has died. Don Haskins, coach of the Texas Western national cahmpoinship team, has died, Coach Haskins changed the face of basketball. He played only his seven black players against an all-white Kentucky team in the 1966 NCAA national championship game. Coach Haskins took a risk. He received death threats and hate mail. He played who he thought were the best players on the court at the time. Coach Haskins will be greatly missed by the UTEP and El Paso community. His seat next to the tunnel in the cebter in his namesake will be empty this season. Players and coaches alike would look to him for approval. He made a great contribution to the game of basketball and made it possible for those who thought they would never play college ball, play college ball. Coach Haskins, thank you for all you have done. You may have been a heavy drinker, but you knew what you were doing and what needed to be done. Thank you for your role in making basketball what it is today.
Last night the UTEP Miner football team was trashed by UT. It was only 42-13, but I think UT must have started playing their second or third string squads. Everyone know it was going to happen. It was all about the pride and spirit of the Miner fans. Watching the game made me remember the good times I had back in the day going to football games to watch my friends kick some trash. So maybe no one ever kicked any trash, but it was fun to watch my friends play and party on the sidelines with my other set of friends. College football is about the spirit and the rivalry. Last night there was alot of both.
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