Ex-UTEP coach can't go to the White House this week.

Former University of Texas-El Paso (and Texas Western) basketball coach Don Haskins has been hospitalized with pneumonia and won't be able to attend a White House screening of "Glory Road" on Wednesday, the El Paso Times reported today on its Web site.

Haskins, 75, was scheduled to leave with his wife Mary today for Washington, D.C., to watch the Disney film that celebrates the 1966 NCAA national championship won by Haskins and his ground-breaking all-black starting five over the all-white University of Kentucky Wildcats.

Haskins began feeling ill last Wednesday and over the weekend took a turn for the worse, his wife Mary told the Times.

Some 60 El Paso residents, along with members of the 1966 Texas Western team, their families and members of the film crew, were invited to the showing of the film, which will be followed by a formal dinner at the White House, the paper reported.

Haskins was sick with the flu and had to miss the Hollywood premiere of "Glory Road" in January, the Times reported.

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