BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - The championship dream is intact, but the $30,000 crystal football trophy has been shattered at the University of Alabama. A player#39;s father accidentally broke on Saturday the Waterford crystal football awarded to the Crimson Tide after the team defeated Louisiana State University in January for the national collegiate title, an athletics official said. The team ...

The crystal football Alabama won for beating LSU in the BCS championship game in January was shattered on A-Day when it was accidentally knocked off a display by the father of a current player.

The South Alabama Jaguars finished the 2011 season with a 6-4 record and a 1-1 record in conference play. In 2011, the Jaguars#39; biggest win was by 32 points against the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils and their biggest loss was by 31 points against the Cal Poly Mustangs. Last season, the team was led by C.J. Bennett (1,640 passing yards, 7 passing touchdowns, 11 interceptions, 76 rushing ...

USA Today is reporting that Alabama Crimson Tide football coach, Nick Saban, will become the highest-paid coach in the land next year, with a salary of just over $5.3 million next year.

Decommitments are a regular part of college football; players change their minds for a variety of reasons. Perhaps they committed early and then prospects with the same skill sets followed; it could be that they wanted to play a certain position and learned they would be used in a...