Alvin Sams, otherwise known as Big Al, a Sacramento, California reporter and radio host, has died. He was 55. Big Al had been part of Northern California television and radio for more than 25 years.

Forgive Doug Southern if his memory is a little fuzzy. How could it not be? After all, It's been 32 trips around the sun since that 1990 October day at Tennessee's Neyland Stadium. He couldn't hear ...