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.
March 30, 2018
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Baseball is known for signature moments. The Willie Mays basket catch. Babe Ruth’s called shot. Kirk Gibson’s fist-pumping walk off in the 1988 World
March 29, 2018
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John David Crow once described his hometown in Louisiana as, “so far back in the woods they have to pipe in sunshine.” A native
March 28, 2018
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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
March 26, 2018
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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
March 24, 2018
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In 1966, former tobacco lobbyist and politician Joe Robbie linked up with comedian Danny Thomas to raise the $7.5 million expansion fee for a professional
March 21, 2018
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While the Southeastern Conference is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished conferences in the NCAA in most major sports, occasionally something occurs that
March 14, 2018
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Jim Valvano, Louie Carnesecca, Wimp Sanderson, Jerry Tarkanian, Bobby Knight. Why college basketball misses the zany coach.
March 13, 2018
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He’s been running for most of his life. For a time, he ran away from tacklers in the SEC and the NFL. He also
February 22, 2018
Eli Gold’s fifty-year romance with the world of sport has left him with no regrets…and a lifetime of memories.
February 13, 2018
