by Rus Bradburd
Rosario “Rose” Davila: Richardson’s longtime wife; mother of the late Yvonne Richardson.
Harold Davis: Richardson’s coach for his first season at Texas Western College.
Todd Day: Leading scorer in Arkansas history, helped lead team to their first Final Four.
Alex Dillard: Hot-shooting sub who scored in bunches for Richardson’s 1994 team.
Evans Dunne: Wealthy Tulsa booster who was originally opposed to hiring Richardson.
Rob Evans: Texas Tech assistant in the 1970s and 1980s, who recruited Ralph Brewster in 1977. Later the head coach at Mississippi; now an assistant at Arkansas.
Orval Faubus: Governor of Arkansas during the Little Rock Central crisis.
Hayden Fry: Former Arkansas assistant coach under Frank Broyles, then head coach at SMU who brought the first black player (Jerry LeVias) to the Southwest Conference.
Clarence “Big House” Gaines: Highly successful coach at historically black Winston-Salem State.
Rocky Galarza: El Paso icon and Bowie High School star whose three-sport heroics predated Richardson’s by a decade.
Gary George: University of Arkansas Board of Trustees member who admitted using the word “nigger” in conversation and jokes.
Alvis Glidewell: Longtime El Paso high school basketball coach after whom Richardson modeled his first pressure defenses.
Judge Wendell Griffen: University of Arkansas double graduate, civil rights and justice advocate, friend of Richardson.
Wally Hall: Longtime sportswriter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Jim Haney: Head of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC); his articles on the lack of black administrators enlightened and infuriated Richardson.
Tim Hardaway: Star guard at UTEP for Don Haskins in the 1980s; his high school coach, Bob Walters, was from Arkansas.
David Hargiss: Former Arkansas football player in the mid-1960s who defended and befriended black walk-on Darrell Brown.
Don Haskins: Richardson’s college coach, he was the first man to start five blacks and win an NCAA basketball title in 1966.
Stan Heath: African-American coach who replaced Richardson at Arkansas in 2002; now at the University of South Florida.
Orville Henry: Iconic Arkansas sportswriter and close friend of Richardson.
Nemo Herrera: Longtime Bowie High School coach who mentored Richardson.
Darren Ivy: Penned most of the articles in Untold Stories, the collection of articles about black athletes in Arkansas during the time of segregation.
Ben Jobe: Politically conscious college coach who led historically black Southern University to the NCAA tournament.
Kenny John: Richardson’s workout partner at Fort Bliss, played at UTEP, outstanding high school coach in El Paso.
Jimmy King: Tulsa basketball coach whose firing opened the way for Richardson.
Almer Lee: First black basketball player to letter at Arkansas.
Jerry LeVias: First black football star in the Southwest Conference, recruited by Hayden Fry, former assistant to Frank Broyles.
Charles Martin: UTEP professor; one of America’s top scholars on the integration of college sports.
Wilson Matthews: Former Little Rock Central football coach; joined Frank Broyles’s first staff at Arkansas.
Lee Mayberry: Star guard on Richardson’s first Final Four team at Arkansas.
Terri Mercer: Longtime Arkansas basketball secretary.
Clint McDaniel: Defensive star of Richardson’s NCAA champs in 1994.
John McLendon: Legendary black coach; won three consecutive national titles at Tennessee State; the godfather of black coaches and fast break basketball.
Oliver Miller: Center on Richardson’s first Final Four team at Arkansas.
Reggie Minton: Groundbreaking black basketball coach at Air Force; now codirects the NABC.
Gordon Morgan: First black professor at University of Arkansas.
Steve Narisi: Arkansas native and TV journalist who has studied the desegregation of the Southwest Conference.
Joe Neal: Leader of progressive movements in Arkansas.
Melvin Patridge: Bowie High School basketball star on Richardson’s final teams there.
Paul Pressey: Richardson’s best player at Tulsa; went on to a long NBA career.
Helen Richardson: Richardson’s high school sweetheart and first wife; mother of Madalyn, Notes, and Bradley.
Jon Richardson: First black scholarship football player at Arkansas, no relation to Nolan.
Madalyn Richardson: Richardson’s first child.
Nolan “Notes” Richardson III: Richardson’s son and former assistant coach.
Yvonne Richardson: Richardson’s daughter; died of leukemia in 1987.
Will Robinson: the first black coach in Division I at Illinois State.
Sid Simpson: Richardson’s athletics director at Western Texas College in Snyder.
Andy Stoglin: Teammate of Richardson at UTEP, assistant at Tulsa and Arkansas, later the head coach at Jackson State.
Eddie Sutton: Arkansas coach whose departure opened the door for Richardson in 1985.
John Thompson: First black coach to win NCAA title in Division I, at Georgetown.
Lyell Thompson: Professor at Arkansas for decades who pushed for desegregation.
Scotty Thurman: He made the decisive “3” to beat Duke for NCAA title in 1994.
Phillip Trapp: Longtime UA psychology professor who pushed Frank Broyles to desegregate.
Ken Trickey: Oral Roberts University coach in the 1970s whose fast-breaking teams had great success.
Lanny Van Eman: Arkansas basketball coach in the early 1970s, before Eddie Sutton.
Fred Vorsanger: Former Fayetteville mayor and manager of Bud Walton Arena at UA.
Duddy Waller: Arkansas basketball coach who signed the first black players at Arkansas in the late 1960s.
Bob Walters: Scored ninety-six touchdowns in high school in Arkansas but was ignored by the segregated teams of the South. Later was Tim Hardaway’s high school basketball coach.
Bert Williams: Former El Paso city alderman (later mayor) who wrote the anti–Jim Crow legislation in El Paso after being denied service at a restaurant with Richardson.
Carrol Williams: Head of University of Arkansas black alumni group.
Dwight Williams: Key guard on Richardson’s first junior college teams; transferred to Texas Tech.
Lonnie Williams: Longtime Arkansas administrator; now at Arkansas State.
Corliss Williamson: Center on Richardson’s 1994 champs.
Judge William Wilson: Presiding judge in Richardson’s court case.
Otto “Bud” Zinke: Senate Council member at UA, antiwar activist, quiet leader of desegregation movements on campus.
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FILM, MEDIA, AND PERIODICALS
Black Magic, directed by Don Klores, ESPN Films, 2008. UTEP, University of Arkansas, and Tulsa University all provided media guides for basketball and football.
The following magazines and newspapers were helpful: Arkansas Times, Democrat-Gazette, Morning News, Chronicle of Higher Education, Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, USA Today.
About the Author
RUS BRADBURD is an assistant professor at New Mexico State University. His fiction has appeared in the Southern Review, the Colorado Review, and Aethlon. His essays have appeared in SLAM magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the Houston Chronicle. His first book, Paddy on the Hardwood, details his departure from the glamorous world of coaching Division I college basketball. He is currently at work on a novel and short-story collection. He lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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Bradburd, Rus, 1959–
Forty minutes of hell: the extraordinary life of Nolan Richardson/Rus Bradburd.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: “An exploration of the politics of race and sports in elite college basketball programs, from the Jim Crow era until today, witnessed through the life of African-American basketball coach and NCAA title winner Nolan Richardson, who took the University of Arkansas to back-to-back Final Four appearances in the 1990s”—Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-0-06-169046-4
Richardson, Nolan. 2.Basketball coaches—United States—Biography. 3.Discrimination in sports. 4. Racism in sports. I. Title.
GV884.R525B73 2010
796.323092—dc22
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2009030440
EPub Edition © January 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-196945-4
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