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Time Out
by Dan Rutledge

Anytime the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Arkansas Razorbacks get together, it’s going to be interesting. Bama fans know of what I speak.

Even when the Tide wins, it is never, never easy. Arkansas at Alabama (Line: Alabama by 17) headlines a quartet of league games on the Week 4 SEC football season. There are also four non-conference games on this week’s slate, none of them overly interesting.

Alabama enters the weekend ranked No. 3 in the land after USC’s upset loss. And right now, the league can boast of “owning” the top 5 with No. 1 Florida, and No. 4 Ole Miss up there, too. LSU is ranked No. 7 and Georgia moved back up a few spaces to No. 17 with its win over Arkansas last week.

Something will have to give when Bama and the Hogs collide in Tuscaloosa Saturday – the Tide is ranked third in defense in the county, while the Razorbacks currently have the nation’s third best offense, having rolled up over 500 yards in each of its first two games.

Of course, what will bend early and break wide open later is the Arkansas defense. Against Georgia, the Hogs generated over 500 yards and still lost. You can bet Alabama’s defense will not let them get anywhere close to that amount of yardage. Look for Alabama to use its, although young, offense line to let its stable of running backs ramble. Quarterback Greg McEroy will hang up some more impressive numbers.

By the way, wideout Julio Jones will be back as well. He probably could have played last week – buy why take chances against someone like North Texas?

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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow discusses the upcoming documentary with film maker Ken Burns…

The National Parks: America’s Best Idea is a six-episode series directed by Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature’s most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska – The National Parks: America’s Best Idea is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.

It premieres Sunday, September 27 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on a public television station near you. Be there or be square…