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Trent Dilfer needs a refresher on UAB's history with 'freakin' Alabama'
Were you there? Of all the things Trent Dilfer said during his tone-deaf postgame press conference Saturday and his unapologetic Monday...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Oct 4, 2024


Alabama's better off now with Kalen DeBoer rather than Nick Saban
Let's not overthink it. Let's come right out and say it. The Alabama football program is better off right now without Nick Saban as head...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Sep 30, 2024


Alabama has a new coach and a new edge on Kirby Smart and Georgia
Kirby Smart is on the hot seat. No, not that hot seat, the kind that burns your silver britches before your tenure goes up in flames. A...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Sep 26, 2024


The Auburn football coach, team and program have lost their way
What is an Auburn man? You can answer that question in the abstract by reading from the Auburn Creed, leaning on the core principle as...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Sep 23, 2024


For Eleanore, Forevermore
Dear Aunt Eleanore, It's close to midnight. I am sitting alone in the warmth of your kitchen, snacking on Utz Original Potato Chips,...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Sep 20, 2024


Meet the new contender for worst quarterback decision in Auburn history
The question of the day is both timely and timeless. It speaks to confounding choices that have rendered brilliant orators speechless,...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Sep 13, 2024


The field is where Nick Saban's name belongs
Every game day in Tuscaloosa for the last 17 full seasons, from Sept. 1, 2007 to Nov. 18, 2023 - with one inconsequential COVID absence -...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Sep 7, 2024


Is Auburn man enough to do Pat Dye things on Pat Dye Field again?
Warning: This is going to be a mouthful. It's going to be hard to wrap your mind around it. It's a stat the sunshine pumpers will say is...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Sep 5, 2024


Year 2 at Auburn: The most important season of Hugh Freeze's life
Put aside the last lost decade, in which the Auburn football program plunged from competing for SEC and national championships to winning...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Aug 31, 2024


Comparing personal first impressions of Kalen DeBoer and Nick Saban
The first time I did an extended one-on-one interview with Nick Saban, back in June of 2007 in the first iteration of his Alabama office,...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Aug 31, 2024


Time for Alabama to make this Elite Eight date count
Today is Game Day No. 2,892 in the long, proud history of Alabama basketball. It is the biggest day for the program in 20 years, at least...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Mar 30, 2024


The Wreck of the Bucky McMillan
I wish I could sing. That's what Samford's first NCAA Tournament game in 24 years demanded when it ended and deserves upon reflection. A...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Mar 24, 2024


Sark and Texas put the latest dent in Saban's Alabama dynasty
That was no fluke, no last-second field goal in regulation, no two-point conversion in overtime, no one-score game that could've gone...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Sep 10, 2023


Scarbo Knows: Hooking Alabama alone doesn't mean Texas is back
There are a lot of reasons why Texas wants to beat Alabama on Saturday in the marquee game of the weekend. Yes, I said marquee. Get out...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Sep 10, 2023


At least we'll always have the Iron Bowl - won't we?
I'm not sure who needs to hear this, although the list would have to start with Finis St. John IV, Stuart Bell, Greg Byrne and Nick...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Aug 6, 2023


Scarbo Knows: Party on, Auburn family, party on
Have you ordered your playoff tickets yet? Put down a deposit on one of those DIY-looking field-level, barstool, big-screen patios in the...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Aug 6, 2023


If you love college football, why dance on the Pac-12's grave?
This column first appeared in the Lede on Sunday July 29, 2023. Go ahead. Sharpen your knives. Freshen your memes. Join the mob, and dunk...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Aug 6, 2023


Scarbo Knows: Drawing a line in the Smart vs. Saban sand
They have much in common as mentor and protege who command the two college football programs the others all want to be or beat, but Kirby...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Aug 6, 2023


Be fitting if Nick Saban went out on top by going back in time
Nick Saban loves him some Tommy Rees. If that professional admiration weren't obvious before last week, SEC Media Days made it clear....

Kevin Scarbinsky
Jul 23, 2023


If Nick Saban is this relaxed now, every Alabama opponent should be on edge
The strangest thing happened Wednesday morning at SEC Football Media Days. I went to a Nick Saban press conference, and Story Time with...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Jul 20, 2023
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