Don Haskins coached perhaps the most important basketball game of all time and broke the color barrier in an all-white sport at the time. In 1966 as coach of Texas Western, he fielded 5 black players in a championship college game against Kentucky’s 5 white players. The story of that game, and the magical season, was made into a film called “Glory Road”, which was released in January 2006. Haskins died Sunday at the age of 78.
“He remains one of the most revered and honored coaches in basketball history, said the Texas school’s athletic director Bob Stull. “His decision to start five black players in the 1966 national championship game changed college basketball and the sports world.”
A galaxy of stars and the three major TV networks united in a rare televised fundraising event to “stand up” to cancer. ABC, CBS and NBC joined with Hollywood stars on Friday night – including cancer survivors such as Christina Applegate, Patrick Swayze, and Lance Armstrong. The telethon raised $100 million. 
2008 was a good year for enviros in the boardroom. A record 57 climate related shareholder resolutions were filed this year—a figure that has doubled over the past 5 years. Support for these measures averaged more than 23% among shareholders– another all time high. (
