When legendary coach Paul 'Bear' Bryant died in 1983, Alabama lost one of college football's most successful coaches. Then, in 1990, the University of Alabama hired Gene Stallings, a true Bear Bryant man, and the Tide began to roll again. After an 11-0 regular season, the Tide trounced the high-powered Miami Hurricanes in the Sugar Bowl to win the National Championship.

The story of Hardrock Adams from the coal mines in the mountains and hollows of Kentucky...to the hallowed grounds of the University of Alabama. Born in near poverty to a father killed in a bar fight with a union organizer... and a mother who taught English in a Mountain Valley school..."HARDROCK" Adams, nicknamed because of his toughness, and his ability to throw rocks at moving objects in the Mighty Risky river while balancing on a swinging bridge high above the rapid waters. Follow his battles with the 'thugs and goons' from the ruthless Burt Mines, who are trying to scare away Mountainside School, and take over their rich strain of 'black gold' coal beneath it. Meet Brother Elford Boost, a mountain snake handling preacher, his beautiful and talented daughter Amanda... who Hardrock rescues from a ravaging flood. Experience the fear of the 'Bluff Fight' between Hardrock and hired gun Frankie Sallio.....Other delightful characters are the 'Widow Turner' who tries to seduce the young Hardrock....Curvacious Dolly Simmons, who runs the local Motel, but dies a mysterious and unexplained brutal death while she too has "eyes" for Hardrock. Then, Hardrock trades his strict religious upbringing for the religion known as Alabama football. First, as an unlikely substitute... then as the publisher of best selling Sports Books...starting of course with the Crimson Tide! From start to finish..."HARDROCK and the ROLLING TIDE" will keep you guessing (and laughing), and in touch with characters you'll never forget!

Perhaps no team in college football embodies the sport better than the Alabama Crimson Tide. From the early days of the Southeastern Conference, to the modern BCS era, Alabama has set the standard for what a winning program should be. The Crimson tide have won more consensus national championships than any other team in college football. Coming off their most recent championship in January 2012, the Crimson Tide looks primed to continue their domination of the college football world. This book takes readers on a thrilling visit with this championship team.

A lively chronicle of how the 2020 Crimson Tide became Nick Saban’s “ultimate team.” Was Alabama’s Crimson Tide in 2020 the greatest team of all time? The squad went 13-0 in a pandemic year, scored a combined 107 points against SEC powerhouses LSU and Florida, crushed Ohio State in a National Championship Game 52-24 in a contest that wasn’t even that close, and followed it up with another top-rated signing class. Nick Saban called his boys the “ultimate team,” but it wasn’t just because they kicked the ever-living hell out of everyone on the football field. It was because the team leveraged a power and influence born of Southern pride to push back against a hateful legacy of racism that a populist president was exploiting to divide the nation. At a time when Americans needed real leaders in the face of so much hate, the sports world answered the call and fought back for the soul of the country. In the summer of 2020, the Tide players left their training facility and, led by their celebrated coach, marched to a campus doorway made infamous sixty years earlier by another political demagogue and showed what people can accomplish when they fight together for a just cause in the name of unity. The most powerful force in a state crazy for college football had chosen to make a stand and replace George Wallace’s “Segregation forever!” with a different message, written by one of the players: “All lives can’t matter until Black lives matter.” ​ There have been some great football teams through the years, and they all deserve respect. But here’s what we know for sure: They all would have been appreciative of what this Alabama team represented, and proud of what it accomplished. The Crimson Tide in 2020 captured something special that moved it beyond the conversation of best ever, and into the place reserved for most important of all time.

New York Times bestselling author Yaeger tells the electrifying story of the game that broke down the last racial division in college football.

When freshman year at the University of Alabama draws to a close, Sara Donovan finds herself grappling with the same old question—listen to her head or follow her heart. What she ends up doing is purchasing an Egyptian souvenir funerary mask, and after a mysterious phone call, she's certain a ring of antiquities smugglers are operating in Tuscaloosa. With finals never far from her mind and her return to 'Bama hanging in the balance, she should be studying. Instead she launches her own investigation to prove her mask is indeed a stolen artifact, and not a cheap trinket. When it comes time to snoop, Sara is more than ready, or at least she was until a hot new teaching assistant moves in next door. Suddenly she learns things are never as they seem. Ever.

A portrait of the influential and controversial University of Alabama football coach shares insights into his winning "Process," his early coaching years at the college and professional levels, and the defining events that shaped his career.

On the trail, anything can happen. After secrets and betrayal shatter his marriage, Josh Mallory seeks solace on the Pacific Crest Trail, in the mountains of Washington. On the trail, he’s just another hiker. On the trail, he can outrun the memories. But this backpacking trip swiftly turns grisly when he comes across the body of another hiker who seems to have fallen to his death. Josh is forced to detour through a small mountain town, where missing hiker posters flutter in the windows, and residents show no interest in hearing about the dead hiker. Unease that something is not quite right chases him back to the trail. But night falls too quickly and in his haste to get away, he becomes trapped on a mountain ridge beneath the light of a full moon. Feeling more and more uneasy, Josh soon realizes that he may not be alone on the mountain, and begins to fear that, like the missing hikers, he won’t make it out alive.

Game Day and God: Football, Faith, and Politics in the American South takes seriously the often-stated assertion that college football in the South is a religion. To this end, Eric Bain-Selbo draws upon a wide range of theoretical approaches in religious studies and cultural criticism. He also relies upon field research on several campuses in the Southeastern Conference where he interviewed fans and experienced "game day." Consequently, the author is able to make the case that college football does function religiously for many people in the South. In addition, the author introduces key concepts and theories of religion and culture to a general audience Game Day and God also recounts the role that college football has played in Southern history and culture. Going back as far as the Civil War, the work explains the cultural meaning of college football in the South, delivering a much-needed critical perspective to the subject Scholars of religion will find the work a compelling extension of key concepts and theories to an otherwise "secular" activity. Scholars of American culture and sports will find the work to be an interesting case study, one that-unlike much work in the area-focuses our attention on the religious dimension of the phenomenon of sport in American culture. And general readers will find that college football or any sport can be much more than they imagined as well as discover important theories with which to make sense of the complexity of our daily lives Book jacket.