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In conjunction with the 100-day countdown to the start of the 2013 college football season, ESPN's Stats & Info group has put together 100 numbers to know. Not surprisingly, there are more than a few that might be of interest to SEC fans: 1...

Making the rounds in the SEC on a Monday: Nick Saban is now officially as beloved as Bear Bryant in Alabama, writes Lars Anderson of Sports Illustrated. Complacency issues are starting to creep in again for two-time defending national champion ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- There is something unsettling about seeing Alabama coach Nick Saban wear a suit onto the football field. He's no Paul "Bear" Bryant. He doesn't roam the sidelines in a coat and tie. He wears a hat only when it rains. He's a coach ...

Jordan Patterson isn't among the stat leaders for the defending champion Alabama softball team, but her presence doesn't go unnoticed -- by her teammates or her family, whose name is synonymous with Crimson Tide success.

Jack Pardee, one of Bear Bryant's "Junction Boys" at Texas A&M who went on to become an All-Pro linebacker and an NFL coach, is being remembered as an innovator, teacher, and loving father and husband.

Jack Pardee accomplished much before, during and after his 13-year career with the St. Louis Rams. Those unfamiliar with his resume should check out some of the details in the Houston Chronicle's obituary. Pardee died from cancer at age 76. Pardee...

HOUSTON -- Jack Pardee, one of Bear Bryant's "Junction Boys" at Texas A&M who went on to become an All-Pro linebacker and an NFL coach, died Monday. He was 76. In November, Pardee's family announced that he had gall bladder cancer that had spre...

HOUSTON -- Jack Pardee, one of Bear Bryant's "Junction Boys" at Texas A&M who went on to become an All-Pro linebacker and an NFL coach, has died, University of Houston spokesman David Bassity said. Pardee was 76. Bassity said Monday that Pa...

Jack Pardee, one of Bear Bryant's "Junction Boys" at Texas A&M who went on to become an All-Pro linebacker and an NFL coach, died Monday.

We at the SEC blog want to express our deepest condolences to the Mal Moore family and everybody at Alabama over Moore's passing Saturday at age 73. Moore was so much a part of that football program and athletic department and, really, one of the ...

Mal Moore wanted to be a star player at Alabama, then the Crimson Tide's head coach. He wasn't either, but his legacy as athletic director might have made even more of an impact on his beloved school.

Former Alabama athletic director Mal Moore, who played and coached under Bear Bryant and hired Nick Saban as football coach, has passed away.

In honor of Florida Gulf Coast's stunning run in the NCAA basketball tournament, I started thinking back to some of the biggest SEC football upsets of my lifetime. The mid- to late-1970s is about as far back as I go, but I've gone back and picked ...

They don't make athletic directors like Mal Moore anymore. The modern athletic director is a guy whose favorite athletic gear is a deposit slip. He climbs the ladder of "development," the euphemism for fundraising. He has to hire a search firm to hir...

University of Alabama athletic director Mal Moore is stepping down and will be a special assistant to the president, the school announced Wednesday.

I have never been to Lubbock, and therefore I have never visited Chrome, the clothing store owned by Texas Tech alum Stephen Spiegelberg, who became the source of mockery this week when a rather fervid marketing memo he sent to a deputy athletic dire...