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HEY EVERYONE WELCOME INTO SPORTS… WELL FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE FOR BERT BANK… THE RADIO PIONEER WHO FOUNDED THE ALABAMA FOOTBALL NETWORK… AND DIED MONDAY AT THE AGE OF 94… SERVICES WILL BE TOMORROW ON THE ALABAMA CAMPUS BEGINNING AT 8 A-M IN THE MUSIC BUILDING… BANK WAS A FORMER P-O-W AND WILL BE BURIED WITH FULL MILITARY CELEBRATIONS…////

MEANWHILE… BACK TO THE BUSINESS OF SPORTS… THE CRIMSON TIDE BASKETBALL TEAM IS HEADED BACK TO MOBILE… ANTHONY GRANT ENTERING HIS NEW TEAM IN THIS WINTER’S COORS CLASSIC… ALABAMA WILL PLAY BIG 12 FOE KANSAS STATE ON DECEMBER 19TH… AVID TIDE FANS WOULD KNOW THAT ALL-TIME… ALABAMA IS THREE AND OH IN THE COORS CLASSIC… THEIR LAST WIN COMING AGAINST SOUTHERN MISS IN 2006…////

WELL I KNOW OF COURSE WE’RE IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL COUNTRY… BUT DID YOU HEAR WHAT HAPPENED THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE U-S SOCCER TEAM?... LET ME SET IT UP FOR YOU… AFTER AN IMPROBABLE ADVANCEMENT IN THE FIFA CONFERDERATIONS CUP… THE RED WHITE AND BLUE PLAYED THE NUMBER ONE TEAM IN THE WORLD… SPAIN… THEY’D WON 15 STRAIGHT… HADN’T LOST IN 35 GAMES… THEY HADN’T EVEN GIVEN UP A GOAL SINCE APRIL 1ST… YOU SEE WHERE I’M GOING WITH THIS…///

TO SOUTH AFRICA WE GO… HOME OF NEXT SUMMER’S WORLD CUP… FIRST HALF… 27TH MINUTE… WATCH JOZE ALTIDORE SHIELD HIS MAN… AND THE DEFLECTED SHOT GOES OFF THE KEEPER AND IT’S A ONE NUTHIN U-S LEAD… FIRST GOAL GIVEN UP BY SPAIN IN 411 MINUTES… AND IT WOULD BE A ONE NIL SCORELINE AT HALF… 2ND HALF… 73RD MINUTE LANDON DONOVAN’S PASS BOUNCES AROUND…END UP AT THE FOOT OF CLINT DEMPSEY… AND ARE YOU KIDDING ME IT’S TWO NOTHING U-S-A… AND THEY GO ON TO WIN IT BY THAT SAME FINAL SCORE… SO THEY ADVANCE TO THE FINAL OF THE CONFEDERATIONS CUP AGAINST THE WINNER OF TOMORROW’S SOUTH AFRICA… BRAZIL MATCHUP…

WHAT AN UNBELIEVABLE RESULT… AND THAT’LL DO IT TONIGHT FOR SPORTS… I’M ADAM BAGNI… HOPE YOU’RE WITH US AGAIN TOMORROW NIGHT… GUYS