Bama will still need plenty of help to leap up to No. 2 in the BCS standings.

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The Bama Companies, the privately held supplier of McDonald's fruit pies and biscuits, is applying Warden's Prometheus logic to pastries.

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'Bama's tally under coach Nick Saban rose to 13 first-round picks since 2010 and 14 since 2009 after the three-peat of sorts.

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Bama Chief Executive Paula Marshall-Chapman brought Warden in a year ago.

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Paula Marshall-Chapman, Bama's CEO, brought Warden in a year ago.

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Now, like the simultaneous air sorties of the Gulf war, a battalion of seven Bama executives fans out to meet with McDonald's franchisees, regional division heads, and buying cooperatives to discuss new products.

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For years, Tammy Lusinger, head coach of the girls' basketball team at Mansfield Summit High School in Arlington, Texas, had a favorite play called "Bama" in which the girls cleared out one side of the court then set up a series of screens to free a player for an open shot.

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