ESPN's Texas Western Special Might Not Include Full Original TV Broadcast Of Game

ESPN yesterday "backed away ... from its definitive claim that the version of the 1966 NCAA men’s basketball championship game it is showing Wednesday night is the actual television broadcast," according to Richard Sandomir of the N.Y. TIMES. After being "alerted to doubts raised" by Steve Stern, the writer and co-producer of "Glory in Black and White," an '02 documentary about the game, ESPN "conceded it might be showing coaches’ or scouts’ film synchronized to a radio call." ESPN VP/PR Josh Krulewitz said that the game, in which Texas Western became the first school to win the NCAA title while starting an all-black starting lineup, "would be seen in its entirety" (NYTIMES.com, 3/28).