Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted by noted sports writers, players, and Alabamians.Dating back to 1925, when Wallace Wade coached the Crimson Tide to an undefeated season and earned a spot in the Rose Bowl, the driving goal of every University of Alabama football season has been a national championship. A winning team surfaced that very next year, when Hoyt “Wu” Winslett’s squad sealed the national cham...

No one who has seen the iconic photograph can ever forget its emotional pull: a grinning Gene Stallings, hoisted into the air at midfield in the arms of his lifelong mentor, Paul “Bear” Bryant, moments after the final gun sounded for the 1968 Cotton Bowl. Stallings’s upstart Aggies delivered an unbelievable upset of Bryant’s Crimson Tide, a team that had dominated its SEC rivals under the leadership of a young quarterback who later achieved NFL fame, Kenny “Snake” Stabler.Yet the f...

The true story of Paul "Bear" Bryant's 1954 Texas A&M football training camp, and the courage, determination and sheer guts it brought out of one team.Now a television movie produced by ESPN, starring Tom Berenger."I heard the story of the Junction Boys from gene Stallings when he was on my staff with the Cowboys. Those guys were some of the toughest to ever play the game. Jim Dent has really brough the story to life in a book any foo...

Ever feel as though the time is constantly slipping through your fingers, but you suspect the cause is not so much a mystery of supernatural proportions but perhaps... somewhat within your control?The truth is, there are four major suspects when it comes to the crime of stealing your time; escapism, needless waiting, pretend progress, and half-justified excuses. But, unlike most crime cases, we are not here looking for the one suspect that truly committed the crime. In fact, we kno...

After finding out she tested positive for the BRCA genetic mutation, Cancer Time Bomb is Joelle Burnette's non-fiction narrative about her prophylactic journey to becoming a "previvor" and free from breast and ovarian cancers.This powerful story chronicles Joelle's 3-year odyssey as she justifies slicing away healthy parts of her body that have high odds of producing cancer. While pressured by surgeons and family to take drastic measures that would remove cancer's potential threat,...