They said it!: Saban vs. Jimbo and Deion, and one golfer not missing Phil Mickelson
Texas A&M head football coach Jimbo Fisher responds to Nick Saban’s comments on his program’s recruiting practices. (2:42)
A contentious back-and-forth among college football’s coaching elite and more from our best quotes from around the sports world this week.
— Alabama Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban, during an event with local business leaders in Birmingham
— Saban, later at the same event
— Saban, speaking to ESPN on Thursday
— Texas A&M Aggies coach Jimbo Fisher, responding to Saban’s original comments
— Fisher, on whether he’d answer Saban’s call in apology for singling out Texas A&M
— Jackson State head coach Deion Sanders, responding to Saban’s comments on Twitter
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— Sanders, on Saban, to Andscape
— UCF Knights coach Gus Malzahn, on Twitter
— Dave Stockton, winner of the PGA Championship in 1970 and 1976, about Phil Mickelson’s absence at the annual champions dinner this week. Mickelson will not be defending his PGA Championship victory this week and hasn’t played in a tour event since late January after controversial comments about the relationship between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabian financiers of the breakaway LIV Golf Invitational Series.