After breaking the record for career victories by a college football head coach, Paul (Bear) Bryant called himself a tired old man who never got tired of football. When Bryant finally retired, he didn ...

The name of the legendary Paul "Bear" Bryant is synonymous with excellence in the game of college football, and once again, fans playing EA SPORTS College Football 27's Dynasty Mode will have the ...

Former Tennessee football head coach Phillip Fulmer was selected as the 2026 recipient of the Paul "Bear" Bryant Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Heart Association. Fulmer led the Vols to ...

The 1962 season — and the beginning of Joe Namath’s varsity Alabama career — began with a game against the Georgia Bulldogs. The youthful Dawgs would be relying on a sophomore-heavy lineup, which ...

In honor of Paul W. "Bear" Bryant's birthday on Sept. 11, 2025, here is a story by then-Tuscaloosa News sports writer Aaron Suttles that originally published on Sept. 11, 2013, which would have been ...

BIRMINGHAM — Tee up the argument for the greatest NFL coach of all-time, if there is one, and I'll listen. Bill Belichick won six Super Bowls, the most ever, in 29 years as an NFL head coach. Is that ...

Florida State head coach Mike Norvell has been named the Paul "Bear" Bryant Awards National Coach of the Week for his team's 31-17 victory over Alabama at Doak Campbell Stadium on Saturday. The full ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WISH) — The recognition keeps rolling in for IU football head coach Curt Cignetti, who won the Paul “Bear” Bryant Coach of the Year award on Wednesday. Cignetti helped lead the ...

Kalen DeBoer has crossed paths with Bear Bryant. The Alabama football coach was named to the American Heart Association's 2025 Paul "Bear" Bryant Coach of the Year Award watch list Wednesday, Oct. 15.

Longtime Birmingham News photographer Charles Nesbitt, whose most famous photo was the often-reprinted snapshot of legendary coaches Paul “Bear” Bryant and Pat Dye sitting together in a hunting lodge, ...