When I discovered the film “Glory Road” was about the 1966 Texas Western NCAA championship basketball team, I was excited — until I discovered Walt Disney Pictures was releasing it. Now, I probably won’t see it. Disney has taken great moments in sports (the 1980 Miracle on Ice, “Remember the Titans,”) and turned it into a feel-good movie without enough detail of the hardships these teams endured before overcoming said hardships.

During my 12-year career as a sportswriter, I found the human-interest, overcoming-adversity stories to be very gratifying to write. I told stories of a softball player who overcame a drug-addicted mother to star in college, of a high-school soccer forward playing every game in tribute to the friend he put into a coma after an auto accident; of a women’s college basketball player growing up in war-torn Sarajevo; the son of a prominent high-school cross country coach who beat cancer, only to have it return after five years — the time it is assumed cancer is beaten; and a handball star who beat cancer and returned to competition sooner than his wife would have liked; and countless others. Detailing their struggles by talking to the key antagonists, painting the pictures of their lives and detailing how they overcame the obstacles proved rewarding — and often landed my byline on the front page. I strongly suspect that one reason “Rocky” won Best Picture in 1976 is because Rocky’s struggles were carefully described abd detailed, not glossed over.

I saw “Miracle” last year in a theater. I liked it, but I kept thinking how much more it could have been — going into more of Herb Brook’s life and character, detailing more of the struggles between the players, reminding everyone of life in the late 1970s and how we needed unexpected heroes. There either was none or not enough of the real-life dramatic elements.

From the reviews I’ve read, “Glory Road” is the same: Not enough racism and struggles Don Haskins and the players must have dealt with, or reminding us of the era by showing these players’ pasts (and who was dunking like that in 1966? It was three years before Lew Alcindor arrived at UCLA and the dunk was banned.)

True, maybe these movies would not have been made had Disney not agreed to distribute, but I still think the Disney brand is not right for movies like these. The stories that are told are incomplete.