March 5, 2002

CBS SPORTS PRESENTS "GLORY IN BLACK AND WHITE: THE STORY OF THE 1966 NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS" SUNDAY, MARCH 31 ON THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK

CBS Sports will present a 90-minute documentary, GLORY IN BLACK AND WHITE: THE STORY OF THE 1966 NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS on Sunday, March 31 (4:30-6:00 PM, ET) during CBS Sports' Final Four coverage of the 2002 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.

In a time when racial integration was just beginning and black athletes had few choices, the 1966 NCAA Championship game dramatically changed college basketball forever.

"This is the third documentary Black Canyon Productions has produced for CBS and once again they show that they are the premier producers of sports documentaries," says Terry Ewert, Executive Producer, CBS Sports. "'Glory in Black and White' is very compelling and provocative."

Throughout the 1950s, integration was slow and nowhere was that more apparent than in sports. There were only three integrated NCAA Championship basketball teams during the entire decade. In the 1960s, civil rights gained momentum, and on March 19, 1966 the NCAA Championship game played at Cole Field House in College Park, Md. featured the Miners of Texas Western (Now UTEP), an all black team, versus Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats, an all white team. Texas Western became the first team to win the championship game with five African-American starters. In an event where the focus is usually on success, talent and achievement, that night there was no avoiding the issue of race.

Kentucky was a tradition-heavy basketball program in a conference that had not yet been integrated. It was Texas Western's head coach Don Haskin's mission to prove to the entire country that "race should play no part in assembling a winning team." That championship night would change the complexion of college basketball forever. Thirty-two years later, an integrated Kentucky team won the 1998 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship under the leadership of an African-American coach, Tubby Smith.

Among those featured in the documentary are Willie Worsley, David Lattin and Bobby Joe Hill, who played under coach Haskins on the 1966 Championship team; Pat Riley and Larry Conley, who played under Rupp at Kentucky; Butch Beard, who chose Louisville over Kentucky; former Georgetown coach John Thompson, and Maryland head coach Gary Williams, who was in attendance at the 1966 National Championship game.

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Distinguished in the television and film industry for their compelling storytelling style and distinctive, first class programs, Black Canyon Productions, a unit of Clear Channel Entertainment Television, has been honored with virtually every prestigious industry award for its work, including three Peabody Awards and three Sports Emmy awards. The company, a division of Clear Channel, the world's largest promoter, producer and presenter of live entertainment, won its second consecutive Peabody Award this year for "Fists of Freedom," a recollection of the dramatic gloved-fist demonstration at the 1968 Olympic Summer Games that aired on HBO last year.

Other notable credits of Black Canyon Productions include "When It Was a Game I, II and III" (HBO - 1991, 1992 & 2000); "Long Shots - The Life and Times of the American Basketball Association" (HBO - 1997); "Babe Ruth" (HBO - 1998), and "Pistol Pete: The Life and Times of Pete Maravich" (CBS - 2001).

GLORY IN BLACK AND WHITE was produced by Ron Yassen and written by Steven Stern and Ouise Shapiro. The Senior Producers for Black Canyon Productions are George Roy and Steven Stern. Joel Feld is Executive Producer, Black Canyon Productions/Clear Channel Entertainment Television.

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