{
  "id": 12630700,
  "title": "What ESPN’s new Nick Saban documentary gets right, wrong and never expected to show",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/what-espns-new-nick-saban-documentary-gets-right-wrong-and-never",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-07T13:04:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Sports",
    "slug": "yahoo-sports",
    "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/espn-nick-saban-documentary-gets-130441292.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Nick Saban, football coach, expletive, liar, executioner, greatest coach, documentary, ESPN, six-part series, premiere, Oct. 8, seven-time national champion, interview subjects, former assistants, quarterbacks, wife, Terry, 90 interviews, storytelling approach, The Last Dance, director Russell Dinallo, seven sit-down interviews, 20 hours of footage, camera presence, 2018 national championship game, Tagovailoa, Hurts, unseen footage, 2018 game, Baton Rouge, coaching career, my-way-or-the-highway approach, victories, championships, NFL, former players, nuanced look, complicated figure, highs, lows, contradictions, sports history.",
  "summary": "Never-before-seen Alabama footage and nearly 90 interviews power ESPN's new Nick Saban documentary on a coaching icon.",
  "key_points": [
    "ESPN's six-part Nick Saban documentary premieres Oct. 8",
    "Features 90 interviews, unseen 2018 game footage",
    "Depicts Saban's my-way-or-the-highway coaching approach"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}