Terry Saban

The first date – we've all had them.

The Nick's Kids Foundation is lending a hand to victims of the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Claudette in Northport on June 19.

On National Gorgeous Grandma Day we salute to the Gorgeous Grandma of Alabama Football, Terry Saban. Miss Terry, as she’s affectionately known to the Alabama fan base is quite simply the true engine of the football program, the glue that holds everything together and the secret sauce that cannot be replicated in other programs. Without her would Coach Saban be able to maintain such laser focus on his program? Would the Crimson Tide be able to recruit at such a high level without her? Would he even have come to Alabama at all?

Long before he became a successful college football coach, Nick Saban was once a talented three-sport athlete at Monongah High School in his native West Virginia. On the field, the senior quarterback and safety guided the undefeated Lions to a Class A state championship in 1968...

Since he joined Alabama in 2007, Alabama head football coach Nick Saban has turned Alabama into one of if not the most elite college football programs in the country. As tremendous a story as Alabama's success has been on the field, maybe the more interesting story is away from the field...

Nick and Terry Saban took part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday to open up a new Nick's Kids playground.