Remember the Fiesta!
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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The Spectrum
“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
From Anniston to Cooperstown
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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Top Ten Plays of the Saban Era at Alabama
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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A-Day tradition continues at Alabama on April 21
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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The camp that was worse than Junction
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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Bobby Bowden’s Brief Career at Alabama
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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The Aggie: Texas A&M’s John David Crow
John David Crow once described his hometown in Louisiana as, “so far back in the woods they have to pipe in sunshine.” A native of Springhill, a lazy town crouching on the Arkansas line, Crow made All-America in football
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The Short and Fierce Tenure of Bill Parcells at Vanderbilt
Reno Benson was confused. Benson, the equipment manager for the Vanderbilt Commodores, hadn’t an iota why new defensive coordinator Bill Parcells wanted five-gallon buckets placed strategically around the McGugin Center. “Don’t worry about that,” Parcells piped. “They’ll be used.”
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The Day the Iron Bowl Changed
Bo Jackson sat at a bus station in Opelika, Alabama, waiting to catch a Greyhound. It was November 19, 1982. Jackson, dejected from his un-Bo-like performance in a loss against Georgia, had been overshadowed by Herschel Walker, running back for
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