Last night the University of Alabama faced the University of Georgia in the College Football National Championship, in all places – Atlanta- the heart of the South. The games dramatic ending when Alabama’s freshman quarterback connected with a freshman receiver allowed the SEC and the South, in particular, to showcase each team's “best and brightest” [...]
The SEC can lay claim to at least two championships in 2017. First, they have the nations best college football program and the second is the best tailgate experience in college football. Monday night’s national championship game between Alabama and Georgia will determine who wins the gridiron battle and I’m prepared to name the best [...]
Each season a handful of SEC rivalry games determine bragging rights for the next year. But nowhere is the intensity greater for this Tailgating SEC Style week than when Auburn and Alabama face off in the Iron Bowl. My good friend and tennis buddy Tim Sammarco, owner and president of Sammarco Electric, and I ventured [...]
Neither John Grisham nor Tom Clancy could have concocted a more suspenseful, convoluted or dramatic plot than has taken place the past week inside the University of Tennessee athletic department. It will go down as the largest public relations blunder in sports history and its case studies should make the next printing of collegiate PR [...]
A gorgeous, warm fall Saturday in Athens, GA was the ideal setting for week five of Tailgating SEC Style, as the University of Georgia Bulldogs hosted the Missouri Tigers. It was my first trip to Athens and I was impressed with both the downtown vibe and the campus. Georgia fans make their way to [...]
