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Saban and Meyer Draw Spotlight at SEC
Associated Press – July 27 (Nationwide to more than 200 media outlets)
It was a familiar scene for Nick Saban these days: Several dozen crimson-clad Alabama fans clamoring for autographs or just a moment's attention from the coach they're hoping will quickly return the Crimson Tide to greatness. You'd think he had just led his team to a Southeastern Conference and national title when he was escorted into the league's media days early Thursday morning…
Washington Post – July 27
Miami Herald – July 27
Boston Globe – July 27

Saban star of Media Days
Tuscaloosa News – July 27
Day 2 of SEC Football Media Days featured the head coach of the reigning national champions, the first black head coach in SEC history and a man who turned a Western Division basement dweller into a weekly threat. But uninformed observers never would’ve imagined that…Crimson Tide head football coach Nick Saban’s return to Media Days brought a throng of Alabama fans to the Wynfrey Hotel on Thursday…

Rock star security:
Birmingham News – July 27
Alabama Director of Media Relations Doug Walker showed up at the Wynfrey Hotel on Wednesday just to scout out the entrances and exits. Thursday, the hotel staff brought out extra security measures to control the crowd. After all, Nick Saban was coming to town.
Every Alabama football coach gets rock star treatment at the Southeastern Conference football media days, but Saban's care went above and beyond…

EBSCO gives UA $2 million gift
Birmingham News – July 27 (print version only)
Birmingham-based EBSCO Industries Inc. has made a $2 million gift to the University of Alabama, including $1.5 million to support digitizing the university library’s special collections and $500,000 for needs-based merit scholarships to the University’s Honors College…

Area teens join UA professors in nanoscience program
Tuscaloosa News – July 27
Dave Nikles, UA professor of chemistry and materials science and Gregory Thompson, UA assistant professor of metallurgical and materials engineering created and direct the Nanoscience and Engineering High School Internship program…

Photo: RISE Graduation
Tuscaloosa News – July 27 (print version only)
Martha Cook…hugs Cade Cook, during the RISE early childhood graduation ceremony at the Stallings Center on the University of Alabama campus.

UA graduate named manufacturing outreach coordinator
Tuscaloosa News – July 27
Jason Hatter, a 1998 graduate of the University of Alabama, has been named the manufacturing outreach coordinator for the Alabama Productivity Center at UA…

Loveless students earn National Merit Scholarships
Montgomery Advertiser – July 27
…students at Loveless Academic Magnet Program High School in Montgomery were among the 29 students chosen this week to be awarded National Merit Scholarships for college. Angela M. Armstrong was awarded a scholarship to the University of Alabama…