Other than maybe baseball, no sport connects with its fans through tradition the way college football does. Yes, a 15-team Super League sort of throws that out the window, but a way to keep some of that is through maintaining a few storied rivalries. That's a big reason why Aubur...
Lee Corso wears the Alabama Crimson Tide mascot head before a November 2017 game between the Auburn Tigers and the Alabama Crimson Tide at Jordan-Hare Stadium. / Christopher Hanewinckel-Imagn Images Not only are college football fans in for a real treat this Saturday when two SEC titans in ...
No. 5 Georgia travels to Austin to take on the top team in the nation in Texas in an appetizing SEC showdown. The Bulldogs have righted the ship after a tight loss to Alabama two weeks ago, as they easily dispatched Auburn then carried that momentum into a dominant first-half showing v...
Professional baseball pitcher with Washington Senators, 1907-27; won 417 games, second only to Cy Young; held major league record in career strikeouts (3508) from 1921 until 1983; holds record for career shutouts (110) and other records; was pitcher at the 1910 baseball game at which ...
Alabama doesn’t consider LSU to be a true rival. Tide fans consider Auburn and Tennessee the real rivals. I was seriously hoping the schools would stop playing every year, but now Brian Kelly WANTS to play Alabama every year under a nine-game SEC schedule. ...
So there’s that. I won’t delve into these numbers further since I don’t want to find myself cherry-picking the stats which support my argument, a folly too many commit. But for what it’s worth I think James clearly outperformed Rose, while Howard mirrored him almost exactly. ...
USC hasn’t played an opponent that was considered a “non-major” at kickoff since 1952 when it hosted the San Diego Naval Training Station Bluejackets and won 20-6. Though the Trojans also scored a home win over San Diego Navy in 1951, they – as the No. 6 ranked team in the nat...
His two greatest on-course accomplishments are his "zero to hero" victory in the 1991 PGA Championship, and his playoff victory over Costantino Rocca in the 1995 Open Championship. In addition to his wins on U.S. soil, Daly has won accredited pro events in South Africa, Swaziland, ...
Turning point: As a four-year starter at Auburn, Davidson's rise is a testament to his body of work: 51 career starts rank among the most of any player on the board. But more than one scout has pointed to his showing against Arkansas this past season -- two sa...
The Raiders did not know what they really had in Jackson when he showed up in 1987. He did not play football the previous year, despite being drafted by Tampa, because of a personal beef with then-Bucs owner Hugh Culverhouse. Jackson, who'd won the 1985 Heisman Trophy at Auburn, ...