The Bride Wore Crimson And Other Stories (1993) - Plot & Excerpts
We had some good basketball teams in my day, but nothing like the Miners of 1966. I watched that NCAA final game on a black-and-white TV set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I was a graduate student at Harvard. I had to explain to my classmates who watched it with me exactly what and where Texas Western College was. None had ever heard of it. But they rooted for Texas Western, and I don’t think they did it entirely for my sake. By then, the amazing Miners had captured the interest of the nation. When the 1966 Miners gathered in El Paso to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their accomplishment, Arturo Vasquez, the editor of Nova, the UTEP alumni quarterly, invited me to attend the reunion and write about it for the magazine. A slightly different version of the story was published in the Dallas Morning News, and was reprinted in The Best American Sports Writing: 1992. AS THEY ARRIVED ONE BY ONE AT THE HOTEL, THEY SHOOK HANDS, embraced, kidded each other about gray hair, bald spots, heavier bodies and slower feet.
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