Game of My Life Alabama Crimson Tide: Memorable Stories of Crimson Tide Football

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From Harry Gilmer and his excellent play in the 1946 Rose Bowl to Mark Ingram becoming the Crimson Tide's first Heisman Trophy winner in 2009, Alabama has had more than its share of great games and great players. In Game of My Life Alabama Crimson Tide you'll discover the advice head coach Paul "Bear" Bryant gave his team before the 1967 Auburn game won by quarterback Ken Stabler's famous "run in the mud," and you'll learn about the favorite games of many other star players.

Tommy Hicks is in his 41st year as a newspaper reporter and editor. He is currently editor of the Call News and Washington County News. He previously spent 23 years as a sports reporter and columnist at the Mobile Press-Register and also worked at the Phenix Citizen, the Selma Times-Journal, the Montgomery Advertiser, and the Anniston Star. He is also in his third year as sideline reporter for South Alabama football radio broadcasts. A past president of the Football Writers Association of America, Hicks is a three-time Alabama Sports Writer of the Year winner. He has also twice won the Herby Kirby Award, presented by the Alabama Sports Writers Association for the best sports story of the year. He is a two-time president of the ASWA and has served on its executive board since 1997. The author of two other books, Glory Days: Memorable Games in Alabama Football History and Kickoff: The Story of the University of South Alabama's Inaugural Football Season, Hicks lives in Mobile with his wife, Julie, and their dog, Sparky. He has a daughter, Maren Hicks.