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The Boys of Fall
Not to be confused with the Boys of Summer. This isn't 1941. No Joe Dimaggio 56 game hitting streak or Ted Williams hitting .406. This is football. The new American past-time and it has my allergies acting up because I knew what it meant to put on the eye black and do bear crawls in the Texas...
Royals Radio Affiliate Profile: Fordyce, Arkansas [1590 KBJT-AM]
The Royals Radio Network is comprised of over eighty affiliates and stretches across seven states. In this recurring series (previous features listed below at the bottom of the page) Royals Review attempts to give each affiliate its proper airing, celebrating the regional reach and heritage of...
Alabama vs Kentucky: A Historical Retrospective
Since Alabama and Kentucky first met on the gridiron 92 years ago, the Wildcats have garnered a victory on just two occasions; in 1922 and in 1997 (the two teams battled to a 7-7 tie in 1939). While Kentucky football has a lengthy history it has never been known for being a powerhouse and the...
An Interview with Mike Vigilant
The suggestion seemed logical enough at the time. As the premier theatrical voice in the state, shouldn’t the Alabama Shakespeare Festival produce a play about the life of the state’s most famous figure – Alabama football Coach Paul W. Bryant? The task of writing the play fell on...
"Bear Country" Begins this Week
The Alabama Shakespeare Festival production of "Bear Country" - a play depicting the life of Coach Paul W. Bryant - comes to Birmingham on Thursday at the Virginia Samford Theatre. Our own Nico2.0 penned a review of the Montgomery performance that should be all the incentive necessary to get...
Cornhusker Kickoff 2009 - The Nebraska Football Yearbook For the Die Hard Fan
As editor, I'm proud to announce this year's Husker football yearbook Cornhusker Kickoff 2009. Unlike other preseason magazines that have only a couple of pages about your favorite football team, Cornhusker Kickoff 2009 is all about the Huskers and this upcoming season. The format has changed...
RBR Reading Room: The Junction Boys
Jim Dent’s 2001 book The Junction Boys has pretty much become required reading for understanding the peculiar methods of leadership employed by Coach Paul W. Bryant during the first half of his fabled career. While Alabama football is necessarily consigned to an ancillary role in this tale,...
NETV To Begin Work on "Life After Osborne" Series
With the announcement that Tom Osborne will be staying as Athletic Director at the University of Nebraska, NETV has announced plans to begin work on a new series called "Life After Osborne" which will take a hypothetical look at the state of Nebraska's future after Tom Osborne has moved on. The...
Corn Flakes Wants You To Learn More About Linebackers
BON's Ghost of Big Roy has an excellent piece on the "Anatomy of a spread linebacker" that I recommend you read. The linebacker position has changed dramatically, particularly in the Big 12, where everyone is running a spread of some form or another. Linebackers have to cover and run - just like...
'Bear Country' Ain't Nothing But A Winner
Last week I made my way to Montgomery to view the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's production of Bear Country, a play about the life of Paul "Bear" Bryant. I will confess up front that I went into this super skeptical. I was very young when the film "The Bear" came out and though I saw it in the...
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