The Stranger, January 12th, 2006
Glory Road, a basketball movie produced by the estimable Jerry Bruckheimer (Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, Coyote Ugly--you get the picture), starts off with a sequence that will really bum out WNBA fans. Soon-to-be-famous basketball coach Don Haskins (Josh Lucas) is presiding over a girls' high-school game. Despite their clumsy play, the girls win big, and they're thrilled. They huddle in an eager mass and try, try, try to hoist Haskins in the air. Then they drop him on his ass. You see, Glory Road is anti-racist, and apparently you can't have a sports movie that doesn't make fun of some und...
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