Ever wonder how the SEC football stadium you visit on a fall Saturday got its name? Tony Barnhart of Gridiron Now has written an excellent piece on the history of SEC stadiums. A couple of things prompted me to write this column. First was a conversation with our own Buddy Martin about his recent column [...]
The Masters, golf's greatest PGA tournament tees off in Augusta, GA this week and one of the south's favorites, Bubba Watson, talks about the "mental" side of playing, surviving and winning. After beginning the week by telling the world he’s essentially scared of life, Watson let on Tuesday that he’d spent nearly 30 consecutive hours [...]
Major League Baseball with all of its glitz and glamour has started but not every professional player is in "the show." Vance Albitz, a former player and now coach for the Cardinals AAA team, Memphis Redbirds outlines some life lessons learned from baseball. Take away the high salaries of the major league ballplayers and the sold-out [...]
The Southeastern Conference has no shortage of outstanding locker rooms for the football programs that bring in millions to their schools athletic programs. Keith Farner at Saturday Down South takes us on an in-depth look at a few of these great facilities. The arms race in college football had busy years in 2012 and 2013 [...]
