”He has so many moves that, if you blink twice, you might miss four or five of them and he`ll be in the end zone.” – Lynn Swann commenting on Garrison Hearst His name sounded sublime, like an army of […]
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See if this doesn’t qualify Josh Donaldson as a card-carrying Southern boy? —Born in Pensacola, Florida. —Moved to Mobile, Alabama, during high school. —Learned the tomahawk chop and rooted like crazy for the Atlanta Braves, like many budding baseball players
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From Roan Mountain to the Plains, Sonny Smith has been a winner
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Ole Miss-Vandy is a series that has been marked by heartbreak. On October 28, 1989, the Rebels won 24-16, but all the team could focus on is what it had lost. That day, Vanderbilt was in the red zone in
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NBA Great Kenny Anderson Paying It Forward at Fisk University
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Probably not much has changed over the last 25 years on Avenue F in Ensley, Alabama. There are a few sagging car washes, row after row of bungalow houses with leaning porches, and nightclubs with naked awnings stripped of their
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Jesus came up in Jupiter. At the celebration of Burt Reynolds’ 80th year of life on this planet, former Florida State head football coach Bobby Bowden asked him the most important question in life. “Burt, do you know Christ?” The
In the 1980s, Terry Harper played on several Atlanta Braves teams that stole our hearts, but frankly, weren’t that good. For the last 30 years, Harper has remained in baseball, helping kids achieve their dreams of making it to the next level.
Randy Campbell found himself at a crossroad. He was just completing his first year as quarterbacks coach on “The Plains” in 1992 when his old coach, Pat Dye, decided to retire. Dye’s announcement on the eve of the annual Iron
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Thirty-five years ago, Ray Perkins was hired to follow “Bear” Bryant as head coach at Alabama. After a rocky four-year stint, he bolted for the NFL. Now, with a recent move back to Tuscaloosa, Perkins’s life has come full circle.
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