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The Braves, the World Series and me
Just after midnight, and it just hit me. The Atlanta Braves played a World Series game without me … for the first time ... ever. True...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Oct 27, 2021


Jimbo boats the Saban whale
Don't get defensive, Kirby Smart. Put down the popcorn and pay attention, Lane Kiffin. Jimbo Fisher has boated your white whale. As a...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Oct 10, 2021


Today UAB and Birmingham make history
Understand. This is more than just another college football Saturday. This is one of the most important college football Saturdays in the...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Oct 2, 2021


New Auburn coach, same LSU voodoo?
Bryan Harsin is busy. He has his hands full at the moment, what with rearranging the deck chairs in the offensive staff room, deciding...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Sep 28, 2021


Swamp things, white noise, ready, break!
It kicked off at 3:41 p.m. Gainesville time and extended to 11:23 p.m. in State College, seven hours and seven minutes of college...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Sep 21, 2021


Can The Swamp get Nick Saban's GOAT one last time?
I love The Swamp. Everything about it, jorts and all. The name and the noise. The heat and the humidity. The goofy "Work 'Em Silly,...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Sep 18, 2021


There's no opening against Alabama
Give Manny Diaz credit for one thing. Two days after throwing his overmatched Miami football team in front of the bullet train with bad...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Sep 6, 2021


Let's do a Rickwood Field of Dreams game
It was a natural. From Kevin Costner emerging from the corn to the White Sox and Yankees following with big eyes and wide smiles to...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Aug 13, 2021


Bo Nix isn't afraid of Alabama or you
Two things you should know about Bo Nix's appearance Thursday at SEC Football Media Days. The Auburn quarterback didn't bring a bottle of...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Jul 25, 2021


Shock, awe and Jimbo: That's so SEC
Most days it feels like the Southeastern Conference revolves around Nick Saban. Wednesday was not one of those days. First major upset of...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Jul 21, 2021


Goodnight, sweet Lizzie
Fifteen years ago, she strayed into our lives and curled up in our hearts. We found her in a ditch by the mailbox, looking a little like...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Jun 22, 2021


Play ball! A few thoughts on Father's Day
One of the greatest joys in my life is watching my sons Kaiser and Kanon play sports. Win or lose. Good day or otherwise. I don't tell...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Jun 20, 2021


Say K and say no more
He's a proud man of Polish descent with an uncommon last name that makes strangers nervous to pronounce and terrified to spell. His...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Jun 4, 2021


Baylor's title and what might've been for Alabama and Auburn
They could've been rivals, elite point guards battling for supremacy on opposite sides of the Iron Bowl of Basketball, going head-to-head...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Apr 6, 2021


This Alabama team just might be the one
This is it. Right here. Right now. This is the one that can finish No. 1. This is the Alabama men's basketball team perfectly positioned...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Mar 15, 2021


These Alabama champions aren't done yet
Memo to all the analysts and experts proclaiming Arkansas the best or hottest or most likely to do damage in March men's basketball team...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Feb 28, 2021


Meet the new Gus ... same as the old Gus?
No one but the most loyal travelers on the Gus Bus needed additional confirmation that it was past time for Arthur Gustav Malzahn and...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Feb 15, 2021


Basketball dad's grateful these seniors got their last dance
Everything ends badly. Otherwise it wouldn't end. Not sure who said that, but I've been feeling it for days. When our Corner High School...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Feb 12, 2021


My 2020 coda: I got COVID for Christmas
It started with a scratchy throat two days before Christmas and ended with an ambulance ride to the UAB Hospital emergency room on the...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Jan 31, 2021


UAB legit? You better UABelieve it
Leave it to Spencer Brown to carry the ball one final time. After pounding the rock 30 times for 149 yards in a clock-draining,...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Dec 19, 2020
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