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Sunday, November 06, 2011
Miles and LSU beat Saban at his own game (UPDATED) | Jeff Schultz - AJC.com
In the end, LSU made plays and Alabama botched them. Early in the fourth from the LSU 28, Saban — as if channeling Miles — called for a halfback pass by Marquis Maze to Michael Williams. The Tide's tight end seemed to have the ball as he was going down at the Tigers' 1-yard line. But Reid took it away for an interception (a play that was upheld on replay).
When the Tigers' ensuing drive ended quickly, the Tigers' Brad Wing, standing at his own goal line, boomed a punt to midfield that Maze inexplicably let sail over his head. By the time the ball stopped rolling, it was at the Bama 18 — a 73-yard punt.
In overtime, it was Alabama, not LSU, that melted in the moment. The Tide had a substitution penalty. Quarterback A.J. McCarron was sacked. Foster missed a 52-yard field goal. That made it easy for LSU: Drew Allman made a 25-yarder. Game over.
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Standing in the Schoolhouse Door - NYTimes.com - Surely Alabama’s attorney general, Luther Strange, did not mean to summon the memory of Gov. George Wallace when he picked a fight with the Department of Justice last week over the state’s new immigration law. Surely no law-enforcement official of his stature would have responded to a fact-gathering request by challenging the federal government’s “legal authority” to investigate reports of civil rights abuses. Could there be an attorney general in the South — or anywhere — who is not acutely aware, and mindful, of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
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