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Former head football coach at the United States Air Force Academy from 1984 to 2006, Fisher DeBerry racked up the most wins and highest winning percentage (.608) in Air Force football history. His best year was 1985, when Air Force finished #8 in the AP with a 12-1 record. He duplicated that record in 1998, [...]

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Post season nominations keep coming in for the Alabama football team, earlier last week it was announced that several Tide players were up for the Lombardi Award and today, Mark Barron and Dre Kirkpatrick were named two of the 15 semifinalists for the Jim Thorpe Award. The Jim Thorpe Award is given annually to the [...]

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Oct
12

Simply A”Maze”ing!

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Marquis Maze has been showing up every week in a big way. On the season, he is the leading receiver for Alabama with 31 catches / 355 yards receiving and 504 yards on the return game. He has filled in the void left by the parting of Julio Jones to the NFL quite nicely. Week [...]

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It’s hard to believe, but after this weekend, a fourth of the college football regular season will be over. As fans see the weaknesses of their teams, and the players who will be leaving after this season, it’s already time to figure out which high school stars can replace seniors and fill in the talent [...]

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After watching two weeks of college football one thing is certain: The defense that is being played out there is terrible. How do you explain scores like this over the weekend: 41-35, 45-42, 35-31. Even the Iowa/Iowa State game got into the 40’s. I looked up NCAA defensive stats this morning and found only two [...]

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In a very classy move, Steve Sampsell who is the director of college relations at Penn State, sent a very classy letter to UA’s student newspaper the Crimson White welcoming Alabama fans and students to their campus this weekend for the game against the Nittany Lions. Sampsell was very complimentary of how he and Penn [...]

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I was not even born yet, but my dad loves to talk about this era of Alabama football. It was 1960′s Alabama football.  He even has old year books of Alabama from that era.  He can tell story after story about those days.  This video below is right up his alley  With 3 official national [...]

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Gene Chizik should have kept his mouth shut. (Not that it mattered anyway!) He butted heads with the NCAA & Enforcement Officer Roe Lach in a meeting this summer over the investigation into Cam Newton. The NCAA’a response? ” You’ll know when we’re finished. And we’re not finished.” Now the juice is starting to flow. [...]

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Ravens fullback Le’Ron McClain and Alabama football alum has a heavy heart following the massive tornado that devastated Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he went to school. McClain wrote on his Twitter account, “People I am good!!” “Sad as hell Just pray for my city it’s bad down here man, I can believe this. Sad day. People [...]

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The papers are in! Cyrus Kouandjio is going to play college football with his brother, Arie (who is already a redshirt freshman), at Alabama! The letter of intent was faxed into the office of the University of Alabama, thereford turning the Tide in recruiting between Tide and Auburn over the No. 1 offensive tackle in [...]

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