For former Alabama football coach Gene Stallings, World Down Syndrome Day is an important date on the calendar.
The day, observed on March 21, draws attention to those with Down Syndrome.
Stallings, who turned 83 on March 2, served as Alabama's football coach from 1990 to 1996, and his Crimson Tide beat the Miami Hurricanes in the 1993 Sugar Bowl, capping a 13-0 1992 season to win a national championship.
Now that he's retired from football, the project closest to Stallings' heart is Johnny's House, a residence being built for handicapped children in Haiti. It's named for John Mark Stallings, the coach's son who was born with Down Syndrome and died in 2008.