miscellaneous

By Hunter Ford I was talking with my buddy Shane the other day and he said he had a couple of ideas for a column… Read More »Firing out a column from the shotgun

By Hunter Ford There are all kinds of coaches, good ones, bad ones, mean ones, winning ones, nice ones, losing ones. I don’t think there… Read More »Advice from coach: ‘Stay Tough’

By Hunter Ford An old friend recently contacted me about setting up a meeting to try and motivate UAB football fans to better support the… Read More »UAB football fans send out SOS

Here’s an article and a column about Mike Gottfried’s visit to Lawson State with his Team Focus camp. Gottfried shared a funny Bear Bryant story… Read More »Team Focus is changing the face of America

By Hunter Ford TWS Reporter In the spring of 1956 an 11-year-old boy sat on his bathroom floor holding his father’s head in his lap.… Read More »Gottfried continues coaching for Team Focus

By Hunter Ford Here is a link to an excellent story on Bessemer Academy. You know, there is one similarity to what has happened at… Read More »High School Ringers

I love Independence Day, or What I Did Past Summers By Hunter Ford Most people have favorite holidays. For some it is Christmas, for others… Read More »Hunter: I love Independence Day

Hunter Ford’s summer reading recommendations For readers of the Capstone Report “The coping w/shit” is either for obsessive Aubies who can’t live without flaming the… Read More »Summer reading

Whoa, Alabama…your Cadillac has a wheel in the ditch and a wheel on the track…what’s going wrong? Hunter Ford Jimmy Johns has a website dedicated… Read More »Hunter: Johns didn’t seem the type

Freeman’s dismissal doesn’t make sense By Hunter Ford Ten years ago Bessemer Academy was at a turning point. The school was broke. It couldn’t afford… Read More »Ford: Bessemer HS football

By Hunter Ford My heroes have always been cowboys, you know, people who have an independent spirit and march to the beat of their own… Read More »Snake is down but shouldn’t be out

By Hunter Ford Who is the best ever Alabama football coach? Who is the best ever Auburn coach? Alabama’s answer is a no-brainer. Bear Bryant.… Read More »Ranking the best Tide and Tiger coaches

Gene Stallings speaking at the Bright Star By Hunter Ford You never know who you’ll see at The Bright Star restaurant in Bessemer. I was… Read More »A Bright Star story