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16 Seconds of Awesome

The magic in college football is often not what you see, but instead in what you don't. A breakdown of one of the greatest punt returns from someone you've never considered a returner.
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Stepping Up

Whitworth's Ears is back to break down both the Alabama and Auburn games over the past weekend and take a quick peek into the coming weekend's games.
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The Chain

Everything you ever needed to know about the politics of college conference realignment, backstabbing, betrayal, jealousy and greed can be summed up in about five minutes.
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Ear Pickin’ – Week Four

Week Four of Ear Pickin' has Whitworth glancing all over the menu -- and he has selections for a full seven-course meal of football excellence. And an Auburn game.
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Caravan Huddle on Expansion-Mania

The Caravan collectively considers the collisions and contractions of college conferences.
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Perspective. Ain’t it a bitch?

Alabama did what it had to do against the Mean Green, but is it ready for a real test? And Auburn didn't do what it clearly couldn't against a mediocre Clemson squad.
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Ear Pickin’ — Week 3

Just like snowflakes or Sting albums, no two weeks in college football are the same…and so it goes with this week's picks from Whitworth's Ears.
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What Doesn’t Kill You

While Alabama’s defense was caught a bit on their heels in that first drive, they certainly stiffened up and slowed Penn State’s offense down to a crawl for most of the game. ...
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Ear Pickin’ – Week 2

(Another installment from Whitworth's Ears, he of the incomplete admin profile...) Week Two in the world of college football is upon us, and it’s time for Whitworth’s Picks,...
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Chizik Celebrates Narrow Auburn Victory

Defending National Champion Auburn needed last minute-heroics to pull out a win over unranked Utah State, a team that hasn’t had a winning season...
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First Night Jitters (Lessons Learned)

The following is the first post from a new writer, Whitworth's Ears. While we sort out creating his profile, let's go ahead and get to the...
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Summer Predictions

Here we are again at the first of a month, and it's time to make some predictions about the upcoming season. 1) Alabama will definitely have a #1 quarterback going into the opener...
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Child Abuse

What these parents did at Hoover's Riverchase Galleria is just plain mean. Expect the Department of Human Resources to step in. It's clear that the threat of even entering that...
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Crunching the Hogs

Stock prices. Climate change. Keith Olbermann eyebrow twitches. Some things just defy computation. And I think this Alabama/Arkansas "Showdown at the Ho-down" qualifies in...
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Medical Malpractice?

There's an article in today's Wall Street Journal about how Alabama "might" be bending the rules, and forcing lesser players to quit the team. "Forcing" might be a harsh word... it's...
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Slow Cooking

Pork is best when it is barbecued slow. However, for the Hogs we tangled with in Fayette-Nam, I would have been just fine making an exception and microwaving them. Overall, Alabama...
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How to Stop Marcell Dareus

Marcell Dareus isn't Superman, but he does make a measurable difference in the quality of the pass rush.
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Crimson Motivation: Florida

GAY-TURS BETTER BE READY TO PLAY FO’ QUARTERS OF FOOT-BALL SATURDAY NITE.
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Florida and the Yoga Showdown

Saturday's games are won in the week before, with all the scheming and the preparation. And with Alabama and Florida, both teams had serious homework. Florida wanted to start working...
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Before Mark and Trent, there was Tyrone

I wonder what it's like. How would it feel to be on top of the world one minute, and the very next, to have that world shattered?
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Disraeli’s Game

The stats of this game don't begin to tell the very brutal story.
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Can the Cocks Rise to the Challenge?

This is an awful late start to the week, but how does one go about wading through the autumn cornucopia of middle-school penis jokes in coming up...
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Crimson Motivation: South Carolina

LISTEN UP, PEOPLE. IT’S TIME FO’SOME CRIMSON NATION MOTIVATION.
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Roll Tide Regardless

I'm not quite sure what to make of Alabama's loss to South Carolina. What I can say is that I was worried about Stephen Garcia when he led the Gamecocks in a massive beatdown of...
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Cold Cocked

Don't click on "I feel lucky" when doing an image search for the title of your post.
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Known vs. Unknown

Things I know: 1. Homecoming was flat. And I'm not talking about the Tide. Friday's pep rally was largely devoid of pep. Perhaps it was the lingering Columbia hang-over. But no...
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Miss (sigh) Gone

There was no preview for the Ole Miss game. It wouldn't have mattered. The 8:15pm kickoff against Bama may be the best time slot the Rebels see all year (which is why I hadn't seen...
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A Tale of Two Oranges

Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, I hated Tennessee. HATED. My distaste for them was right up there with that YouTube-famous Bama fan who so vociferously pronounced his...
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Spy vs. Spy

Les Miles is a defensive mastermind. Listen in as he reaches back more than 112 years, and borrows from the playbook of legendary Coach H.G. Wells to shut down Auburn's Cameron...
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Smok’em If Ya Got’em, Boys.

41-10. DAT'S WUT I'M TALKIN'BOUT!
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I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues

Lacking an Alabama Crimson Tide game this week, my attention could be focused elsewhere. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="206"...
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An Urgent Correspondence of Utmost Legal Import

The Tea Party feels its oats, and goes after those who besmirch the name of the one and only true Mad Hatter.
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Zion’s Glorious Summit

Plausible deniability. We're about to find out how seriously the NCAA takes that phrase. Because right now, the conspiracy theory du jour is that Newton's dad needed money to...
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Let the Blessings Flow

This speaks for itself. Yes, it is completely unfair, but clever and well-done, nevertheless.
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Your Fear is My Hope

A couple of white chicks break down a football game.
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Curb your enthusiasm?

It's game day in Tuscaloosa, but unless you're sitting within a 100-yard radius of the stadium (as I am), you probably wouldn't be able to tell. As my aunt said this morning when I...
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The Game that Will Not Die

The problem with Auburn/Georgia games is how there's more trash-talk after the final whistle than before it.
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Copulate Yourself, Barner

Was that an appropriate start to Iron Bowl week? Yes, I have tremendous respect for Auburn, and many friends who wear the orange and blue. But really? THIS? Really? ...
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The Making of a Bama Fan

I fell in love with Alabama football on November 26, 1992. I was 11 years old. The Tide was en route to its first national title since 1979 and I was attending my first college...
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Don’t feed the trolls

Oh, boy. The Aubs have one more thing to gripe about heading into Friday's Iron Bowl. The Tuscaloosa News should have known better than to feed the Internet trolls, but alas,...
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Eating with the enemy

Later today will be an exercise in diplomacy. And I'm not talking about the rapidly escalating tensions between North and South Korea. Although there is a common thread. Inferiority...
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Iron Clad Discussion

We proffered one of our own to go into the Longhorn's Den, to talk Iron Bowl, SEC, and a little Cam-gate with Sailor Ripley and Scipio Tex from the Barking Carnival. My...
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Nitty Gritty on Taming the Kitty

Let's talk some football. Bama on offense Nick Fairley is a beast. Sometimes, an unruly beast that ceases higher-level cognitive function, and regresses to a lesser cortex that once...
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The Iron Bowl is No Big Deal

...if you're an idiot talking head on ESPN. Sports headline reader Cindy Brunson apparently didn't have the wherewithal to correct the teaser script written by the intern who was...
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I’m Going In!

My day was marred early by Aubs picking a fight in the parking lot outside our clubhouse at 2:30 a.m. The mix of liquor, hate, piss and vinegar coursing through young veins was...
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We got beat by a better team

God, that hurts saying it. We got beat by a better team. Somehow, it's more painful in the small letters than it is in the headline. I'll break down the game later.
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Welcome to Planet Earth

I know the same could be said of the Tide this year, but maybe this ends a bunch of the B.S. arguments. (Use your own interpretation of B.S.) Every fan base has its own fanatics...
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Breathe in, breathe out, move on

We've had far longer than Coach Saban's customary 24 hours to digest the loss to Auburn and move on. But who are we kidding? Neither team, or its fan base, readily moves on from the...

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