Lynn Gaither remembers the phone call from her aunt. Gaither was maybe eight years old, living in Ladonia, Alabama. Bear Bryant had died. All these years, all these Nick Saban championships later, and Gaither still is partial to the man whose last of six national titles came when she was five. “If I had to pick one, I'd pick Coach Bryant to...
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