HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The game was different 55 years ago. Some news film was still in black and white, and college basketball in the South was just about all white. Houston head coach Guy V. Lewis ...
Big sports events on TV came with a set ritual in the Robertson household in El Paso. First, the Pontiac got hidden in the single-car garage and the Ford would be parked in the alley behind the back ...
The 20th century was barely two-thirds complete when the decision was boldly, even brashly made to market a college basketball contest in January 1968 as "The Game of the Century." But the event stood ...
Considering all that transpired in 1968, what occurred 50 years ago Saturday may represent the most benign sort of upheaval. But there’s no denying it too changed the world. Everything that major ...
Throwback Thursdays are our chance to reflect on past events on or near campus and relate them to the present day. Each week, we showcase and analyze an old article from the Daily Bruin archives in an ...
It is with mixed emotions that Jim Nantz will watch "History in the Astrodome - 1968: UCLA vs. Houston" at 8 p.m. Monday on CBS Sports Network. Never before in his 33 years with CBS has Nantz had the ...
The aggregate margin of victory in this Final Four was 73 points, and that’s with Ohio State’s 89-85 defeat of Houston for third place included. (Remember third-place games? No?) But margin of victory ...
All this week, The Times is looking back at 1968 — a year that blurred the line between sports and the real world, with athletes swept up by Vietnam War protests, political tumult and racial tensions.