The Fab 5 at 25
The team is an integral part of the University of Michigan’s history. It brought the basketball program unprecedented levels of attention, passion, and controversy that still reverberate 25 years on.
Those events were also part of a larger cultural moment that raised difficult questions around race, class, amateurism, and big-time college sports.
A core part of the University of Michigan’s mission is to explore challenging issues like these in civil but unflinching ways. At U-M’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, which is hosting the event, we believe that the liberal arts offer us ways to learn from even the most complex and challenging events. This anniversary of a seminal event in the University's history makes this the right time and place to look back at the Fab Five’s legacy—what it meant then, and what it means now.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2016 | 2:00 p.m.
Hill Auditorium | Ann Arbor, MI
Presented by the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Co-sponsored by Michigan Athletics.
EXPECTED PARTICIPANTS:
Ray Jackson
President and Founder, RUIAAP
Assistant High School Basketball Coach
Jimmy King
Coordinator, Business and Community Partnerships
Head Coach, Boys' Varsity Basketball, Ecorse High School
Jalen Rose
ABC/ESPN Analyst and Founder, Jalen Rose Leadership Academy
Yago Colás
Professor of Comparative Literature and in the Residential College, LSA
Kevin Blackistone
Journalist and Visiting Professor of Journalism, University of Maryland
Billy Hawkins
Professor, Department of Health and Human Performance, University of Houston
List of participants is tentative and subject to change.
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Residential College and comparative literature Professor Yago Colás shares stories about the history, culture, and power of sports in “Ball Don’t Lie,” a new video series from the College of LSA.
In this episode of Ball Don’t Lie, Fab Five member Jimmy King talks with Professor Yago Colás about being part of a team that dominated on the court and in the national conversation about sports.
Yago Colás teaches the culture of sports in LSA, and his previous academic focus lay in studying fiction and narrative in relation to their social contexts. The title of his most recent book, Ball Don’t Lie, is playground slang used to suggest that an event in a basketball game either justifies or contradicts a contentious call.
