No activity killed the time of my boyhood more than building sets of baseball cards. I bet half of my discretionary hours were spent splayed out on the shag carpet of my Alabama home, arranging sets of cards. Topps. Donruss. […]
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And it’s goodbye to A&M. Texas Fight, Texas Fight, And we’ll put over one more win. Texas Fight, Texas Fight, For it’s Texas that we love best. Hail, Hail, The gang’s all here, And it’s good-bye to all the rest!
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In May 2006, the State of Minnesota authorized legislation to construct a $545 million ballpark in Minneapolis for use by the Minnesota Twins. The Twins, an American League franchise since 1961, had played at the old Metrodome since 1982. The
The 34-7 trouncing of Alabama by Louisville on January 1, 1991, in the SunKist Fiesta Bowl was a shock to the nation and one of the worst bowl performances in Alabama history.
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“Reverently bathed in spotlights, its concrete walkways and stair steps kept tidy, its prim interior virtually untouched, the Spectrum looks as if it could reopen tomorrow, even though it played host to its last event six months ago and
Ty Cobb was striking out on a baseball career until he got a second chance in, of all places, Anniston, Alabama… A memorial to him stands on the corner of 10th Street and Quintard Avenue in downtown Anniston. Inscribed on it
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Go ahead, Alabama. Pinch yourself. This isn’t a dream. Yes, this is the greatest run in the history of college football. Yes, your program has captured 5–say it again, 5–national championships in the last 9 years. Yes, Nick Saban
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Nearly four months removed from the 2017 national championship, its fifth of the Saban era, the University of Alabama football team took to the gridiron for its sixth practice of the spring. The day included a two-hour work session
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Bear Bryant’s practices in Junction, Texas, in the summer of ’54 have been broadly documented and sensationalized, but one would be remiss to believe that this grueling week was an outlier. A fledgling and perhaps more pitiless precursor occurred while
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It almost didn’t happen. Just a few months after American troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, Bobby Bowden enrolled at Woodlawn High School in Birmingham. Bowden, who had grown up a sports fanatic, had been, at thirteen, diagnosed with the
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