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Rocky Slop: How Long Will Phillip Fulmer Last at Tennessee?
It has been ten years since Good Ole’ Rocky Top saw its last National Championship. Yet, as the Vols limp through a horrible season, some might say it feels like a century ago...
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Saban, Alabama Hope To Keep BCS Title Hopes Alive
Thank God last weekend is over. Alabama didn't play, and the Top 5 was put on the cutting block for the second time this year...
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Alabama Football 2008: What a Process
About three months ago, I wrote an article titled "Alabama Football 2008: Better Team, Worse Record." I wanted to follow up with a midseason progress report...
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Is Nick Saban Overrated?
If you are a LSU Tiger fan, more than likely you appreciate the fact that Nick Saban came to Baton Rouge and turned LSU’s football program around. On the other hand, you are probably bitter about the way he handled his departure...
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Mississippi-Alabama: Can Bama Prevent the Ole Miss Upset?
Crazy things have happened thus far in the SEC. Tennessee is 2-4 (0-3 SEC), Auburn is 4-3 (2-3 SEC) with a loss to a struggling Arkansas team, Georgia 5-1 (2-1 SEC) was upset by Alabama 6-0 (3-0 ...
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Life Lessons to the Tune of Football: The Corporate Gridiron
Every Saturday starts the same for me this time of year. I wake up around 7:00 a.m., I have breakfast with my family, I admire my wife and my daughter, and then I cut on SportsCenter and tell her to take the kid and scram...
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Alabama Football: Things We Learned and Monday Message Board 10/13
Hey Guys, So with an off week, Alabama fans got a chance to watch an amazing weekend of football, which most Bama fans never thought was possible when the Tide wasn't in action...
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Lopsided LSU Loss Resurrect Comparisons Between Saban and Miles
The LSU Fighting Tigers are still licking their wounds from last Saturday's thorough beatdown at the hands of the Florida Gators. It was the worst loss during Coach Miles' tenure. Miles and Co...
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Gone With the Barn: An Auburn Epic
Cowpile Productions, in association with Call My Agent Cinema, announces that an EPIC new production is due to be finished by December of this year: Gone With the Barn. It's a tender story of a love gone bad—horribly bad...
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Satisfaction! Why Alabama Fans Are Riding High
As I sit and think about whether Alabama is No. 1 or No. 2, it strikes me: At this point it doesn't matter. To understand this, you must think about what Alabama football has been through in the past 10 years...
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Week 8 SEC Predictions
Well fans we are half way through the regular season and some crazy stuff has already happened and I have a feeling this week won't be any different. Mississippi St. Bulldogs at Tennessee Volunteers I believe the Bulldogs from Mississippi St...
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Alabama Kool-Aid Drinkers: Buy the Handy Five Gallon Container
Alabama has been down. Not down to Notre Dame lows, but down longer. For fans accustomed to contending for at least an SEC championship each year, the last appearance in that game seems a lifetime away...
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What Is Wrong With LSU? The Nick Saban Effect Is Wearing Off for Les Miles
Well, let me be the first to say it. Les Miles is in over his head at LSU! When Les Miles got a phone call from LSU Athletic Director Skip Bertman in 2005, he must have splashed cold water ...
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Jet-Gate Two: Bama on the Rise, Auburn Refueling the Jet
My, my, my...Wow, how the tables have turned. For six years, the 'Bama Nation has had to listen to Aubie after Aubie preach to them about how their Cow College has taught them to count to six...
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Are Coaches Holding a Joe Paterno Grudge? Penn State Gets Only Three No. 1 Votes
We know who the 61 coaches are who vote in the USA Today/Coaches poll, but we won't find out who they vote for until the last week of the season. We know that only three of them saw fit to vote Penn State University number one this week...
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Alabama-Ole Miss Preview: The Number "3" Is Key
By Terry Pellman After what was an enjoyable off week considering where this Alabama team is today and where we all thought we were going to be just two months ago, I started looking at the upcoming battle this Saturday with Ole Miss early Sunday morning
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Navigating out of the Doldrums: Saban provides wind for Alabama's sails.
The Crimson Tide's tumultuous voyage in recent years has landed it in the middle of the Doldrums. Packed full of talent, The University of Alabama's historical ship sat upon the silent and quiet ...
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Tommy Bowden Fired!
Reports from Greenville, SC television stations are that Tommy Bowden has been fired and that wide receiver coach Dabo Swinney will take over as interim coach for the rest of the season...
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Fall Recruiting News: How will Alabama finish? Offense.
By Jason Argo Although Alabama is only halfway into the 2008 football season, the Tide is nearly three-quarters of the way finished with the 2009 recruiting class...
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Six Reasons Why Alabama Won't Make It to the BCS Championship
Expectations. It’s a word that is tossed around in Alabama as if it were some sort of viral infection. The media loves to talk about how Nick Saban is being forced to “manage expectations,” ...
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BCS Hopefuls Roundup: Why Alabama Should Be the New No. 1—Not Texas
Before I sat down to write this article, I heard Texas was just given the No. 1 ranking after it downed hated rival and last week's No. 1 squad, Oklahoma, by 45-35 score in a classic at the Cotton Bowl...
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Who's Going to The BCS Title Game Undefeated?
After a huge upset weekend, one thing became apparently clear. Each team that hopes to contend for the crystal football this year must take care of business each week and not hope for someone else to help them...
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Alabama and Texas Will Meet In The National Championship Game
Coach Saban has warned Crimson Tide football fans not to "drink the Kool Aide" but we cannot help but gulp in down. Bama's last National Title was way back in 1992. Bama beat Miami in the Sugar Bowl...
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Great Expectations: A Mid-Season Review of the '08 Offense
By Mitchell Carter Preseason Outlook Going into the 2008 season, opinions wildly varied as to how the various units of this year’s Crimson Tide team would perform (relative to the process, of course)...
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Ball State Cardinal Roundtable: Western Kentucky
(Every week, The Sixth Ball Brother and the other two Ball State sports blogs, Over The Pylon and Ball U Nation, participate in a Cardinal Roundtable, where we attempt to answer the key questions concerning this coming week's opponent...












