Best Of Alabama Newscenter 2017: Sports Stories

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

As we watch 2017 give way to 2018, it’s a good time to look back on some of the best things that happened in Alabama this year. Alabama NewsCenter has tallied the results in each grouping of stories to see which ones you responded to the most, and we’re sharing your five favorites along with a story (or stories) we wanted to make sure you didn’t miss.

This was a year of comebacks. Both Birmingham Bulls hockey and UAB football returned to the Magic City and Tuscaloosa boxer Deontay Wilder came back from hand surgery to defend his title twice. It was also a year that brought us a heartwarming proposal at the Magic City Classic and the story of heartbreak that the head football coach of Miles College spent this year trying to overcome.

Here are the five sports stories that scored the most with our readers in 2017:Alabama State delivered a 21-6 upset over Alabama A&M in the 76th Magic City Classic. However, that wasn’t even close to being the biggest surprise at this year’s game at Legion Field. That distinction belonged to Aaron Sims, who devised an elaborate wedding proposal that included Jermaine “Funnymaine” Johnson supposedly handing out prizes to fans in the stands. The Magic City Classic once again had the great tailgating and featured Rickey Smiley as its celebrity ambassador, but it was Sims and his now-fiancée Tatiana Ethridge who upstaged them all.

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