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FBI Tracked Alabama Football in 'Bear' Bryant Era, Documents Show

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Forty years ago, Alabama football fans watched Southern California and a black running back named Sam Cunningham trounce coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's Crimson Tide in a game widely credited with helping start the integration of Southern football. Fans weren't the only ones watching Alabama football back...

Tailgating for Godot: A 1-Act Tribute to Alabama's Bear Bryant Play

It's come to this, Alabama fans are tailgating outside of a new play based on Bear Bryant's life. Which is an improvement over what they would have been doing if Mike Shula was still coach, lighting themselves on fire with their red and white pom-pons in the parking lot. The play, entitled Bear Country, will be playing at...

Kiffin Shatters SEC Coaching Mold

The SEC coaches meetings rolled into Destin, Fla., this week, and Lane Kiffin washed ashore. You know Kiffin, the man who brought a Molotov cocktail to the SEC tea party, the guy who coaches like tickets have to be sold for the latest WWE event. You halfway expect for him to enter press conferences wearing orange tights,...

The BCS System Really Lacks Any Kind of Actual Responsibility or Check-Balance System

Dennis Dodd inked a quick little number this morning (gracias, Piler) about an inaccuracy in the BCS system that was recently revealed. Shocking, I know -- the BCS is, in fact, not absolutely, 100% perfect. (Please note I mean that as a sarcastic jab at the shoddy ranking system, not Mr. Dodd for being nitpicky.)And, aside...

Is Today Alabama's Coming-Out Party?

The Bear died in 1982, and ever since Alabama's been yearning for a sustained national presence. Sure there was that national championship victory over Miami, but overall the program's been plagued by inconsistency, scandal, sanction and the rise of the SEC.A victory today over Georgia would perhaps put Alabama over the...