When discussing the greatest SEC coaches of all-time, more often than not our thoughts turn to football. And why not? The two most prominent names that spring to mind are ones with which we’re all too familiar. The University of […]
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When the wheels came off of the Gene Chizik tenure, Auburn turned to a familiar face to steer the bus. For the 2013 season, former offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn was chosen as the 26th head coach in school history. Malzahn brought
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A game in Athens helped propel Pat Sullivan to the 1971 Heisman Trophy On the strength of out-dueling Archie Manning in the Gator Bowl and being named SEC Player of the Year, Pat Sullivan entered the 1971 season as
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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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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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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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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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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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 football franchise. Robbie planted his team in Miami called them the Dolphins. From 1966-’69, George
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