University of Alabama
At Least 4 Players on Alabama’s ’60s Football Teams Had CTE
The repercussions of C.T.E., which cannot be definitively diagnosed until after a person’s death but is routinely found in football players when researchers are allowed to conduct post-mortem examinations, can be jarringly conspicuous: episodes of confusion and memory loss, spasms of anger and argument and steep declines in communication and decision-making skills. “You just see […]
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Scorned by Trump, Mo Brooks Rises in Alabama Senate Race
In politics, “the only thing that matters is how much money you’ve got and how low you’re willing to go,” he said with disgust on Friday. “It’s very, very disturbing. I hope it will backfire.” Mr. Brooks’s time in the barrel took place in the spring. A super PAC favoring Ms. Britt, Alabama’s Future, dredged […]
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Georgia Knocks Off Alabama to Win National Championship
INDIANAPOLIS — If this is a new era of college football, with its sandlot schemes, pyrotechnic offensives and analytics dictating that fourth down isn’t for punts or field goals, the sport was dragged back to an earlier time on Monday night. Back to football’s prehistoric age, when championships were won with chin-strap busting defenses, offenses […]
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College Football Gets Its Inevitable Georgia-Alabama Title Rematch
Georgia, the defensive mammoth, and Alabama, the perennial juggernaut, seemed to be on a collision course to the top of college football all season. They got a shot at each other in the Southeastern Conference championship in December — a game in which the Bulldogs barely resembled the behemoth they’d been from their first game. […]
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With Exasperation, College Football Is Just Trying to Get Through the Playoff
In this malleable, ebb-and-flow pandemic world, there may be one certainty gleaned from the last nearly two years of living with the coronavirus: that here and there may not look very much alike. When New York City was all sirens, silence and grim isolation during the first wave of the pandemic, it was easy for […]
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Alabama, Michigan, Georgia and Cincinnati Make College Football Playoff
Kirby Smart, Georgia’s coach, signaled Sunday that he remained supportive of Stetson Bennett IV, who was 29 for 48 with two interceptions against Alabama. “Obviously, we have to play better in a lot of areas, but to put any part of that blame, or all of that blame, on Stetson, there’s a lot more to […]
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Alabama Beats Auburn in Iron Bowl Thriller
AUBURN, Ala. — When it ended, the University of Alabama football players galloped across the field, gesturing mockingly at the stunned Auburn fans at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Auburn’s players trudged toward their locker room. Some took a knee, some bowed their heads. Others stood still, staring up at the sky. The Tigers had contained Alabama, ranked […]
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