Good feelings surround hiring of Alabama's new basketball coach

Alabama's hiring of Anthony Grant as its new basketball coach is surrounded by all kinds of ironies. He becomes the first black coach of a major sports program at Alabama, the school where on June 11, 1963, I saw Alabama Gov. George Wallace stand in the doorway to prevent black students Vivian Malone and James Hood from enrolling at the school.

Then there's this wonderful sentence in the AP's story of the hiring: "(Athletic director Mal) Moore and executive athletic director Dave Hart interviewed Grant in Richmond last weekend."

Gotta love it.