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CSS: Alabama can play own style against Arkansas
(AP Photo/Wade Payne) After six games against spread offenses, up-tempo attacks and Georgia State, Alabama finally matches up with a team that plays its brand of football. Arkansas had a great start to...
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CSS: Alabama beginning to look like unquestioned No. 1
The defense did its job and the offense discovered its full potential as Alabama beat Arkansas 52-0 on Saturday. The now 7-0 and still No. 1 Crimson Tide showed a distinct balance on offense, an...
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CSS: The Tennessee-Alabama Rivalry Needs to be Competitive
Photo: John Michael Simpson The Alabama-Tennessee rivalry is always heated, with plenty of name-calling, rock-painting and trash-talking, but it’s been fairly one-sided for the past six years....
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CSS: AJ McCarron Got Angry At Tennessee
Photo: Jonathan Biles Ho-hum, just another Alabama win over Tennessee in the Nick Saban era. This time it was 45-10 and is the seventh straight victory for Alabama against the Volunteers. But instead...
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CSS: Nick Saban Isn’t Going Anywhere
Alabama’s win against Tennessee on Saturday was a reason for celebrating, but it was almost assumed that they would win. The real victory for fans of the Crimson Tide was the continued reassurance...
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Thumbing Through The Tide: Against Tennessee
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CSS: Alabama’s Offensive Line Just Needed Time
As the confetti fell in Miami in January, Alabama had just crushed Notre Dame 42-14 and had won their second consecutive national title. But as they celebrated, Nick Saban’s gears were presumably...
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Thumbing Through The Tide: Against LSU
As I cover Alabama football games, I am beginning to favorite my favorite tweets concerning the games, which will let the Twitter-averse into the fun without having to log in. Also, this is an idea...
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CSS: No one can outlast Alabama
Photo: Jonathan Biles Maybe Alabama is a second-half team. It was close in the first half; too close for the 101,000 fans who braved the 40-degree, drizzly Tuscaloosa autumn night to watch their...
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CSS: AJ McCarron Won’t Win the Heisman, and it doesn’t matter
Photo: Jonathan Biles AJ McCarron is not going to win the Heisman Trophy. Face it. It’s not going to happen. He might get invited to the ceremony to watch Jameis Winston or Johnny Manziel win it, but...
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CSS: Nick Saban emotional about Alabama’s graduating class
(AP Photo/Dave Martin) With a win all but predetermined, Alabama’s 49-0 romp over Chattanooga on Senior Day was about staying in form for next week’s Iron Bowl against Auburn and appreciating the...
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CSS: An Iron Bowl for the ages
Photo: Duncan Mathews A lot can happen in one second. Auburn continued its inexplicable season and set fire to Alabama’s hope of a three-peat by beating the Crimson Tide 34-28, another lurid reminder...
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CSS: Alabama skunks North Florida
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — After two consecutive losses to Duke and Drexel in Madison Square Garden over the weekend, Alabama came home on Wednesday to a nice, comfy opponent to cheer up against, beating the...
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Ex-CBS Sports Pres. Thinks Ratings Will Drop If College Players Are Paid
The arguments against compensating college athletes are becoming less and less credible. Former CBS Sports President Neal Pilson, who is the go-to source for sports television executives from...
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Alabama Still Has Something To Play For
After missing the national title game by one second and about 105 yards, Alabama returns to the field on Jan. 2 to face Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl. This isn’t the game that anyone in Tuscaloosa...
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CSS: Will Sugar Bowl loss spur change at Alabama?
Motivation wasn’t the problem for Alabama in its 45-31 loss to Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl; Alabama was beaten by a better team. Oklahoma came in with a game plan to rush Alabama quarterback AJ...
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AA: Sports Illustrated’s Report on Oklahoma State Helped Recruiting
Maybe there isn’t such a thing as bad press. In September, Sports Illustrated released a five-part report on some serious lack of institutional control involving the Oklahoma State football program....
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CSS: Four Alabama juniors head to the NFL
The double-edged sword of college football rears its head yet again as the deadline for eligible juniors and redshirt sophomores to declare their intentions looms closer: Either decide to stay for a...
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CSS: Lane Kiffin is perfect for as Alabama offensive coordinator
Lane Kiffin has landed comfortably, again. After being fired from USC on the tarmac at LAX six months ago, the coaching wunderkind has been hired as the new offensive coordinator and quarterbacks...
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CSS: Trevor Releford goes off as Alabama defeats Miss. State
After a tough road loss to Georgia over the weekend, Alabama rebounded with a double-digit win at home over Mississippi State 80-61 on Wednesday night. The sparsely populated crowds at Coleman...
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