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2012 NFL Draft: SEC Football On Top With 9 Players Taken in Round 1
With 12 SEC players present in the green room of Radio City Music Hall in New York City for the 2012 NFL Draft, the SEC was hoping to break their own record for most players selected from a single conference in round one of the NFL Draft. It was a record they set in 2007, [...]
TweetFather of Alabama Long Snapper Carson Tinker Broke the BCS Trophy
If anyone has earned a free pass in the state of Alabama it’s long-snapper Carson Tinker and his family. Nearly a year ago Tinker and his girlfriend Ashley Harrison were torn from Carson’s home by a violent tornado that claimed the lives of 53 people in Tuscaloosa alone. Tinker and Harrison were tossed into a [...]
TweetAlabama WR DeAndrew White Hospitalized Following Late-Night Fight
Stop me if I’m starting to sound like a broken record. In an off-season which has already been filled with fights, injuries and arrests, yet another can be added to the list. According to reports, Alabama Crimson Tide sophomore wide receiver DeAndrew White was hospitalized overnight following an early morning fight where shots were fired. [...]
TweetAlabama Crimson Tide BCS Title Trophy Shattered by Recruit’s Father
If your mother ever had a china cabinet full of fine china or crystal, you can understand that things that are fragile seem to be polarized to attract the ham-handed. The same is true of the BCS championship trophy apparently, because on Saturday a recruit’s father who was visiting for the Alabama Crimson Tide spring [...]
TweetAlabama’s BCS Championship Trophy Shatters; Conspiracy Theory Time
There’s a conspiracy afoot in Tuscaloosa and the thread starts unraveling with the crash of the 2011 BCS Championship crystal football. Over the weekend, $30,000 in valuable Crimson Tide bragging rights fell to the floor. To ESPN’s Tide Nation for the gruesome details: The Coaches’ Trophy from this season’s BCS national title was accidentally knocked [...]
TweetSEC Spring Football: Spring Closes for Auburn, Alabama, and Others
SEC spring football came to a close this weekend for six SEC members (Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Missouri, South Carolina and Vanderbilt), and fanbases from Columbia (MO) to Columbia (SC) are all drinking the juice from the fruits of spring. The reality that nobody really wins or loses — unless you have a discernible hatred for [...]
TweetNew Nick Saban Contract Still Leaves Him Underpaid
Don’t get cheap on me, Alabama. I know $5.3 million a year seems like a lot — that’s about a million bucks per foot and an extra $100,000 per inch — but the reality is that, despite a raise that makes Nick Saban the highest paid head coach in college football, he’s still underpaid. This [...]
TweetNick Saban High School Fails But Tide Coach Earns Contract Extension
Two national championships in three years at Alabama reaped Nick Saban an extension and nearly immortalized his name at a Montgomery high school. As for the money, the former LSU and Miami Dolphins head coach becomes the highest-paid coach in the country in 2012 at $5.3 million. He’d previously trailed Mack Brown at Texas in [...]
TweetPicture: Roll Tide Championship Chicken
People are wired a bit differently in Alabama. Early in life they’re taught a version of the color spectrum that includes Houndstooth and Bear Bryant — God rest his soul — would be nominated for sainthood if the residents of Alabama had any idea what Catholicism was. (They’s awl just a buncha God-fearin’ Southern Baptis’ [...]
TweetSEC Spring Football Preview: Alabama Crimson Tide
2011 Record: 12-1 (National Champs) Returning Starters: 12 Key Losses: Trent Richardson, Marquis Maze, Dont’a Hightower, Courtney Upshaw, Dre Kirkpatrick, Mark Barron Breakdown: The Alabama Crimson Tide lose a lot of NFL-caliber talent off Nick Saban’s third national championship team (second in Alabama.) Richardson, Hightower, Upshaw, Kirkpatrick, and Barron could all be potential first-round picks, [...]
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