Alabama lights up traditional stogies after beating Tennessee (PHOTOS)

Call it close, but yes cigar.

It's a tradition, when Alabama beats Tennessee, cigars are smoked. And on Saturday, those stogies were lit after the Crimson Tide eked out a 19-14 win over the Volunteers in Tuscaloosa.

After two touchdowns from running back Derrick Henry, the Heisman candidate celebrated quite appropriately with his coach Nick Saban:

While the PC Police will find so much wrong with these pictures, you have to love that Alabama don't give a lick.

One last time to spark the cigars with lil bro #BPsiPhi #FlyHighMyGuy #HeyVols #WeJustBeatTheHellOutOfYou pic.twitter.com/FFBFf1OJng

— John Fulton (@_Elvis_Freshley) October 24, 2015

The host team preserved their lead after the Vols fumbled with little over a minute left in the contest:

This left Peyton Manning, who was watching the game on the sideline of his alma mater, with what looks like well ... smoke in his eyes.

CC Sabathia may face drug test for Instagram photo: Report

CC Sabathia could possibly face additional drug screening for marijuana after he posted a photograph on his Instagram account showing him standing on the balcony of his hotel room in Atlanta over the weekend smoking what appeared to be either a small, brown cigar, cigarette — or a joint.

The photograph arrived in wife Amber Sabathia’s email account Saturday morning, according to the Yankees pitcher, accompanied by a for sale sign.

Sabathia told reporters Saturday before the Yankees played the Braves that he was smoking a small cigar, not pot, and had declined to negotiate with the seller of the photo.

“Somebody emailed Amber (his wife) this morning and said they had pictures of me doing something I wasn’t supposed to be doing. I said, ‘I wasn’t doing anything I wasn’t supposed to be doing.’ So that’s why I put that picture out,” said Sabathia.

According to the New York Daily News, sources said the incident triggered interest from Major League Baseball, whose collectively bargained drug policy requires MLB’s drug treatment board to interview players suspected of using marijuana or other “drugs of abuse.”

If the treatment board determines there is indeed reasonable cause, the player is required to undergo drug testing within 24 hours.

The penalties for marijuana use are fairly minimal: Players are penalized for pot only if they fail to meet with the treatment board or the board determines that the player has refused to comply with a treatment program. They can also be subject to a series of fines, which according to the language of the drug program “shall be progressive and which shall not exceed $35,000 for any particular violation.”

The commissioner can impose discipline “without limitations” on players if he believes their marijuana use represents a threat to the safety of other players.

CC Sabathia: I was smoking cigar in photo, not a blunt: Report

Apparently, it’s nothing more than a cigar claims CC Sabathia after the Yankees ace posted a picture, taken by an unknown photographer, on Instagram early Saturday afternoon showing him smoking what looks like a funny, little brown cigarette on the balcony of an Atlanta hotel.

On the Instagram account, Sabathia said he was smoking a cigar, but skeptics said otherwise,

Yankees' CC Sabathia laughs off a photographer's attempt at extortion. http://t.co/6QejVpX2S3 pic.twitter.com/lDAUKlbOHK

— theScore (@theScore) August 30, 2015

“I wear [a Cavaliers] jersey to sleep, so I don’t know if it was [Saturday] or [Friday],’’ Sabathia said after someone contacted his wife beforehand about the photo, but insists it wasn't anything other than tobacco.

"Somebody emailed Amber this morning and said they had pictures of me doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing," Sabathia said before Saturday night's game against the Braves. "And I said, 'I wasn't doing anything I wasn't supposed to be doing.' That's why I put that picture up."

Sabathia, on the 15-day disabled list with right knee inflammation, said he posted the picture before discussing it with his publicist. 

A little more than an hour after he spoke with reporters, the photo of Sabathia — in the white Cavaliers LeBron James jersey — was removed, replaced by one of him sleeping with the caption: "I was told I had to take the pic down by a NY newspaper who bought it $$$."

The caption on the original photo read: "Shout out to the Paparazzi for catching me on the smallest balcony ever trying to relax with my 4 kids driving me crazy!"

Marijuana or not, this is the second time in the last two weeks that Sabathia has been at the center of an off-field controversy. On August 17, gossip website TMZ posted a video of him involved in a street fight outside a club in Toronto. In that clip, Sabathia had to be restrained and pushed into a taxi cab before being hauled away.

You go gangsta.