Excellent cover photo. Does a great job of illustrating the theme of the game, a swarming Alabama defense.
Not in love with the headline, though. Can pretty much write that for any winning team, no?
Sunday’s front covers of the Baton Rouge Advocate and the Tuscaloosa News after last night’s Field-Goal-Kicking Competition of the Century.
I’d cry, too, if someone ever made me wear a tie to a football game. (via @23toby)
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Sports Illustrated again goes with regional covers, hailing big opening-week victories by LSU and Boise State.
Shaquille O’Neal has hung ‘em up, but did you his former All-American teammate Chris Jackson (now Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf) stll plays professionally in Japan?
Abdul-Rauf, now 42, was one of the NCAA’s greatest ever freshmen when he played at LSU, becoming the third-overall pick in the 1990 NBA Draft, selected only after Derrick Coleman and Gary Payton.
Abdul-Rauf scored 14.6 points per game in his nine-year NBA career. Nothing to sneeze at, really, but he never made an All-Star team, and only two of his squads — the rather pedestrian Nuggets, Kings and Grizzlies — advanced to the postseason.
Source: Sports Illustrated
