Edited: You may have heard there’s a football game in Alabama tomorrow. The annual gridiron meeting between the University of Alabama and Auburn University is known as the Iron Bowl, because for many years it was played exclusively with a 50-50 ticket split at Legion Field in Birmingham, a city built around large iron ore … Read more
Penn State (11-1) has won the Big Ten and earned a Rose Bowl berth. Joe Paterno has announced that he will return in 2009 for his 60th season coaching Penn State football, and his 44th season as the head coach. Who can argue? I should have spoken up and looked like a genius. I didn’t … Read more
TUSCALOOSA (AP) – It had to happen sometime. This afternoon, before a sellout crowd of 137,415 at Saban-Bryant-Denny Stadium, LSU defeated Alabama 17-16, ending the Tide’s unprecedented, unlikely-to-ever-be-surpassed win streak at 108 and dropping Alabama to 9-1 on the year. It is the Tide’s first defeat since November 24, 2007, a 17-10 loss to Auburn. … Read more