Kirk McNair is the editor and owner of Bama Magazine and BamaMag.com, which he founded in 1979 after serving as sports information director at the University of Alabama. He has won national awards for sportswriting and is the former president of the National Collegiate Sportswriters Association and of the Alabama Sportswriters Association. He is the coauthor of Always a Crimson Tide, Gamechangers, and What It Means to Be Crimson Tide.