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Cassandra and Jane: A Jane Austen Novel

Pub Date: 2008-09-09 Pages: 270 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US Timed to the release of Jerry Bruckheimers movie. the moving autobiography of Hall of Fame basketball coach Don Haskins and his storied team of players. the Texas Western Miners In 1966. college basketball was almost completely segregated. In the championship game for the NCAA title that year. Don Haskins. coach of the then little-known Texas Western College. did something that had never been done before in the history of college basketball. He started five black players and in the now legendary game. unseated the nationally top-ranked University of Kentucky. Broadcast on television throughout the country. the Miners victory became the impetus for the desegregation of all college teams in the South during the next few years. Now. for the first time. Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins tell his story. Be...

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