Edited sentence: Hopelessly outclassed [by Rupp's Kentucky program].Sadly, in his book, Sports in America, Michener took several swipes at the 1966 Texas Western team in his book Sports in America, calling the game "one of the most wretched [stories] in the history of American sports" and saying that the Miners were "loose-jointed ragamuffins.This racist diatribe would prove to be untrue, but extremely damaging to the reputation of Texas Western,