Profiles

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

NBA Great Kenny Anderson Paying It Forward at Fisk University

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

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

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.

What Bill Jones, former NCAA Division II national champion basketball coach at Jacksonville State University, is today amounts to many things, but the word used most to describe him in all facets of his life is “winner.”

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