LANGSTON, Oklahoma -- Stretching out along the Oklahoma plains, the horizon shows no hint of the coming sunrise when Cheryl Miller and her team start practice.
Their campus is as dark as the sky. Dorm windows. Academic buildings. Not even the electronic sign on Highway 33 is blinking its normal hello to passers-by.
But every light at the fieldhouse blazes.
Pull open the glass doors, and you hear them. Voices shouting. Basketballs bouncing. Follow the sounds up some stairs, down a hallway and through blue doors, and you find them.
And there on the court at Langston, you find Miller. The greatest women’s basketball player that the game has ever seen stands silently on the sideline. She wears a white do-rag, a red long-sleeve shirt and black sweatpants. On the back of the shirt are the words, “LIFE IS GOOD”.
Yes, it is.
When Miller was introduced as the women’s basketball coach at the small historically black college last spring, many wondered what the world was going on. An Olympic gold medalist? A former major-college and WNBA coach? A longtime NBA sideline reporter on TNT? What was she doing at Langston?
Photo Gallery: Cheryl Miller at Langston
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