The One that Started it All
Reflections on the greatest of SEC Championship games: the first one
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The Gate
The Rise of Clemson
Before the Tigers found their soul in Dabo Swinney, their Road to Dominance was long and painful
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What if?
Georgia’s 2007 romp over Tebow, Auburn and Hawaii’s record-setting offense makes one ask, what might have been?
The Top 10 Iron Bowls of All Time
1967 – Alabama 7, Auburn 3 Any Iron Bowl list just wouldn’t be complete unless the great Kenny Stabler was mentioned. Stabler’s famous “Run in the Mud” was a finger-pointing, gut-checking, earth-splashing 53-yarder to beat Auburn in 1967. It is
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Celebrating 70 years of Iron Bowl memories
One of the most heated rivalries in sports history was revived 70 years ago, and though the Iron Bowl has seen its fair share of change, it remains just as pure as ever. In 1948, both Alabama and Auburn’s student
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Let’s play two! A brief history of Southern football doubleheaders
In the 1960s and 1970s, it was not unusual for a handful of Southeastern Conference teams, most notably Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi State, and Ole Miss, to play college football doubleheaders. That’s right folks! A twin-bill on the same Saturday in
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Yes, Virginia, there was a Chaminade
Unlikeliest of college basketball upsets spawns Maui Invitational
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The Day Emmitt Smith Ran All Over Alabama
Subtle is not normally a word used to describe Emmitt Smith’s career. There was nothing subtle about his career with the Dallas Cowboys, one that produced the glimmer of three Super Bowl rings and eight Pro Bowls. There was nothing
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The ravages of Hurricane Andrew gave rise to Homestead-Miami Speedway
Hurricane Andrew, small in size but ferocious in nature, barrelled in from the east. “A Mike Tyson storm,” one veteran National Hurricane Center specialist called it. “It has a hard blow, but it’s not very big.” By the standard of
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Shutout U: Reviewing Alabama’s Best Shutouts of the Saban Era
Alabama has become the Walter Johnson of college football. Across 21 seasons in baseball, the man known as “Big Train” threw 110 shutouts, which still stands as a Major League record. Since Nick Saban arrived in Tuscaloosa in 2007, Alabama’s
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