When it’s all over, your hair is sticky with champagne and beer and your clothes are wet and smelly. Getting pulled over by the police on the way home might prove problematic. Sometimes, when you pick up your camera or lens a few days later, something doesn’t work. But being in the locker room amidst [...]
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RBR Reading Room: Coach
Alabama football is synonymous with one man – Paul W. Bryant. It is a fact that must be recognized and acknowledged before any true understanding of the program can proceed. This presents a serious difficulty since Coach Bryant’s legend was already formidable during his lifetime and has scarcely dimmed in the years since. The night [...]
RBR Reading Room: A Time of Champions/Ain’t Nothin’ But A Winner
There is no more iconic moment in the Alabama/Penn State rivalry than the Goal Line Stand during the 1979 Sugar Bowl. That one play has come to embody the physical, determined approach the two teams share toward the game as well as something on the side of the sublime as well. Certainly the fact the [...]
RBR Reading Room: Varsity Green
Mark Yost’s Varsity Green: A Behind the Scenes Look at Culture and Corruption in College Athletics will be a somewhat frustrating read for many college sports fans and they will find themselves screaming “Amen!” one moment and then shaking their fists in the air the next. On one hand, Yost absolutely eviscerates the NCAA as a [...]