"Coach Carter" is both an inspirational sports movie and an unexpected multi-level urban drama that plays by its own clock. Younger urban auds enthusiasm may be questionable, but their parents and ...

ORLANDO, Fla. Ken Carter doesn t coach anymore. He didn t coach high-school basketball for that long when he did less than five years.

Created by MTV Films, this flick is based on legendary basketball coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson), who in 1999 made the controversial move of benching his entire undefeated high school ...

athletics10_114_jlt.jpg Richmond High School coach Ken Carter gained national attention a few years ago when he benched his entire basketball team and forfeited games until they got their grades ...

Based on 1999 incidents in the life of Ken Carter (portrayed here by Samuel L. Jackson), a stubborn, stalwart, inspirational basketball coach at a high school in Richmond, Calif., “Coach Carter ...

In January of 1999, high school basketball coach Ken Carter benched his entire Richmond, Calif., basketball team, which had previously been 13-0, after a small number of his players began to slip ...

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Ala. – Former high school basketball coach Ken Carter is set to be the keynote speaker on Friday at the teacher institute for Escambia County Alabama Teachers.Carter made ...

Coach Ken Carter paid Southwest Florida a visit this weekend. Yes. The basketball coach portrayed by actor Samuel L. Jackson in a major motion picture. Coach Carter visited New Hope ...

When Carter was just a kid, maybe 8, the day he predicted all of this. He was in the kitchen, waiting to be given the big wooden spoon his mother was using to stir cake batter. ''I'm talking to her… ...

He will be replaced by Ken Carter, an author, speaker, education activist and former high school basketball coach, whose career inspired the 2005 film “Coach Carter” starring Samuel L. Jackson.

Coach Carter creates a new millennium hybrid of Dangerous Minds and Hoosiers, beating its message into you like a Pistons/Pacers steel cage match. Based on the true story of Coach Ken Carter ...

Despite its punishing length (135 minutes), this afternoon-TV special trying to pass as a real movie earns an extra half solely for Samuel L. Jackson, who brings his usual fire to the role of Ken ...