slamdunkcentral.com - 3/16/2008
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Imagine living in a country, where white men and black men playing a game of basketball together on the same court, could result in their arrest. Well, it happened right here in the USA and not all that long ago 64 years, 1944 to be exact. The ESPN documentary “ Black Magic ” which airs in two parts on Sunday and Monday nights at 9:00 p.m. EST/PST 8:00 p.m. Central delves ...
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Black Magic
hoopsaddict.com 3/12/2008 — To my beloved readers, your wordsmith is going to take it personal. March has always had special significance in my life if not for the very fact that I was born in the middle of the month on the fabled Ides. Yet, March and basketball is a synonymous vibration today and you will feel my zeal as I share, for all to be aware, that ESPN is airing a two part, four hour program on the phenomenal ...
ESPN Does a Good Thing
blazersedge.com 3/18/2008 — Like most of you, I suspect, I watch ESPN 365 days a year, or close to it. The last two evenings I was treated to Black Magic , a documentary that was, without question, the best television programming the network has put out this year. It ...
FirstCuts: Watch ESPN's 'Black Magic' —
The Sporting Blog
By Bethlehem Shoals
Sports don't start and end with a referee's whistle. FirstCuts, a blog dedicated to sports culture, will cover everything outside the lines, from games to gear.
If you have more than a passing interest in college basketball, old basketball, the evolution of the game of basketball, race in sports, good documentaries, or American history, you owe it to yourself to ...
ESPN: BLACK MAGIC —
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I have to admit, ESPN knocked one out of the park with the two-part, four hour series, "Black Magic" . http://espnblackmagic.secondthought.com/?ex_cid=2008_BNNR_BMGC_XXXX_AWRS_XXXX This is an absolutely riveting documentary about the rise and fall of the historically black colleges and their impact on the direction and influence of basketball as we know it today. The interesting part is ...
OTL: Black Magic and Bubble Watch —
NCAA Hoops Today
Today's Outside the Lines will air at 330pm eastern on ESPN2, and have two college hoops related features, Bubble Watch and Black Magic. Black Magic will begin airing after Selection Sunday on ESPN, this is a teaser by OTL.
Please keep in mind this airs on ESPN2 tonight, because ESPN will be busy with the Big East First Round. More at the OTL Video promo.
"Black Magic" Review —
Sports Scope
If it is true, that ESPN is planning to go into the sports movie business full-time, they could not have picked a better way to start than "Black Magic." The two-part documentary detailing the Civil Rights movement shown through the...
Billy Packer on John McLendon: a 'giant' —
Sports stories from Newsday
ESPN's "Black Magic," which I wrote about extensively last weekend, debuts Sunday night and concludes Monday.
The most remarkable figure in the series is pioneering coach John McLendon, who touched an amazing variety of historical figures in the sport - starting with James Naismith himself - yet is not known to most American sports fans.
CBS analyst Billy Packer, who played at Wake ...
Black Magic: The Most Important Film You’ll See This Year —
Dime Magazine
The Winston-Salem State team (photo. ESPN)
A couple of months ago, I was one of a select group of media to catch and early screening of Black Magic, a documentary about the influence of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU’s) on the game of basketball, that debuts on ESPN this Sunday at 9 p.m. EST. The [...]
Benjamin Banneker: The colonial Da Vinci —
The Official Website of Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Historians routinely praise Thomas Jefferson as one of the smartest men of his time. He was educated, well read, a prolific writer (hey, he wrote the Declaration of Independence!), a dedicated statesman, and one of the most powerful men in the country. One can only wonder at what kind of self-confidence and courage it must have taken for someone at that time to write to ...
Must See TV: ESPN's Black Magic —
Bleacher Report - NBA
If there is anything ESPN typically does not need any help with it is marketing itself. But I want to give the world wide leader some help and encourage people to watch Black Magic. From the film’s web site , “the film tells ...
Black Magic -- Interview with Dan Klores —
NBA.com: News
On Sunday at 9 p.m. ET, ESPN will air Black Magic, the first of a two-part, four-hour film that chronicles the African-American influence on the game. Or more precisely, according to the film's director, Dan Klores, "tells the story of the injustice ...
