Movie Review - Glory Road

      If anyone reading this review doesn't recognize the valuable role played by college sports in the collective psyche of a community, then they haven't been paying attention to college football for the past couple of months. Even though Glory Road involves college basketball, not football, it tells the story of how one small college basketball team, in one amazing season, transformed the personal lives of its coach and players and exploded the racial bigotry that severely limited participation of Black athletes in NCAA basketball. In fact, for years Black basketball players were rarely allowed to start a game and were awarded much less playing time than their white teammates. But all that ended with the 1966 college basketball season. (Continue reading Glory Road )