Nearly four months removed from the 2017 national championship, its fifth of the Saban era, the University of Alabama football team took to the gridiron for its sixth practice of the spring. The day included a two-hour work session […]
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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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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 Series. Sid Bream’s miraculous race around the bases. And on June 5, 1989, when 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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Jim Valvano, Louie Carnesecca, Wimp Sanderson, Jerry Tarkanian, Bobby Knight. Why college basketball misses the zany coach.
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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 ran away from his faith. Now the 48-year-old banker runs for another type of goal
