Donald Lee Haskins (March 14, 1930 – September 7, 2008), nicknamed "The Bear", was an American collegiate basketball coach and player. He played for three years under legendary coach Henry Iba at Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University). He was the head coach at Texas Western College (renamed the University of Texas at El Paso in 1967) from 1961 to 1999, including the 1966 season when his team won the NCAA Tournament over the Wildcats of the University of Kentucky, coached by coaching great Adolph Rupp.
In his time at Texas Western, he compiled a 719–353 record, suffering only five losing seasons. He won 14 Western Athletic Conference championships, four WAC tournament titles, had fourteen NCAA tournament berths and made seven trips to the NIT. Haskins led UTEP to 17 20-plus win seasons and served as an assistant Olympic team coach in 1972.
He was enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1997 as a basketball coach. The 1966 team was nominated in its entirety to the Basketball Hall of Fame, and was inducted to the Hall on September 7, 2007.
Plot
40 years ago, Don Haskins went on the recruiting trail to find the best talent in the land, black or white. 7 blacks and 5 whites made up the legendary 1965-66 Texas Western Miners. They were mocked and ridiculed for their showboating and flaunting of black players on the court. Yet, in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, Haskins and his Miners came together as a team united to reach the National Championship game against powerhouse Kentucky.
Keywords: 1960s, arena, based-on-true-story, basketball, basketball-court, basketball-game, basketball-movie, basketball-team, bleachers, bleeding
Winning changes everything.
The incredible story of the team that changed the game forever.
Coach Don Haskins: You'll play basketball my way. My way is hard.
Coach Don Haskins: Hey, hey, Winnaker, Winnaker, do you want me to get you a skirt? I'll get you a skirt if you keep playing like a girl!
Coach Don Haskins: Jason, Don Haskins, Texas Western.::Jason Stevens: Western Union?::Coach Don Haskins: Texas Western down in El Paso. Hey, after the game, when you get a minute I'd like to talk to you about playing for me.::Jason Stevens: Play for you at Texas Western? Thanks, Coach, but I'm partial to winning.
[after a pass is stolen by Bobby Joe Hill]::Adolph Rupp: [to Pat Riley] That's what happens when you don't talk to each other!
Coach Don Haskins: [while recruiting Orsten Artis] Brother, without a little work I don't think you can get past an old-timer like me.::Orsten Artis: Get past you... I will go past you, through you, over you, under you, around you. As a matter of fact I will spin you like a top, twist you in a pretzel, eat your lunch, steal your girl and kick your dog at the same time... pshh, get past you.
Willie 'Scoops' Cager: They're trying to take our dignity away from us.::Coach Don Haskins: Your dignity's inside you. Nobody can take something away from you you don't give them.
[after a pass is stolen by Bobby Joe Hill]::Adolph Rupp: [to Pat Riley] That's what you get for talking to him!
Coach Don Haskins: You got a real talent, son, why throw it away?::Bobby Joe Hill: I'll tell you why. Ever since I was a kid I've only loved one thing. That was playing ball. Do you understand what that's like, having that ball in your hand... It's like, It's like making sweet music with your game, only thing is you don't wanna hear the song.
Cafeteria Worker: Taco? Nacho? Burrito? [Orsten gives a lank Stare] Taco? Nacho? Burrito?::Orsten Artis: No, I'm looking for el hot dog-o.
Plot
Architect's life is plagued by his ex-wife, a master manipulator, whose constant clawing is about to drive off his new love, and his clientèle. As a hobby, he enjoys training a rare harpy eagle, with a Native-American pal, who empathizes with his plight, and a plan of action coalesces.
Keywords: architect, ex-husband-ex-wife-relationship, revenge