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Analysis | Alabama football is starting to click on all sides

Analysis | Alabama football is starting to click on all sides

Ashlee Woods | @ashleemwoods, Staff Reporter October 21, 2020

For Alabama football, it’s smooth sailing from now on. With the Crimson Tide’s latest win, there’s not much competition left in the path of yet another SEC Championship game.  Alabama has now...

Volleyball opens up season against top 10 foe on Wednesday

Volleyball opens up season against top 10 foe on Wednesday

Robert Cortez, Staff Reporter October 20, 2020

The Alabama women’s volleyball has a steep mountain to climb as they open their season on Oct. 21. Alabama will take the court in Foster Auditorium against the No. 7 Missouri Tigers to open up its long...

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Curry seeks to mend last season’s mistakes

Ashlee Woods | @ashleemwoods, Staff Reporter October 18, 2020

For Alabama women’s basketball, last season included some missed opportunities, including reaching the NCAA Tournament. But the team also enjoyed some great moments, like beating the Mississippi State...

Slump rolls on for women's soccer

Slump rolls on for women’s soccer

Robert Cortez, Staff Reporter October 18, 2020

The struggle for Alabama women’s soccer continued Saturday against Ole Miss.  The team was shut out for the first time this season, losing 2-0 to the Rebels and falling to 1-3-1 for the season. This...

Alabama softball enters fall with relentless mentality

Alabama softball enters fall with relentless mentality

Robert Cortez, Staff Reporter October 18, 2020

The last time Alabama softball was on the field together was a couple of days after its series win against the Arkansas Razorbacks in mid-March. Players cheered, clapped and jumped up and down as they...

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Troubles to Triumph: Saban leads defense in enormous improvement over No. 3 Georgia

Alexander Plant | @aplant63, Sports Editor October 17, 2020
After a shutout in the second half, Alabama bested Georgia 41-24 in Bryant-Denny Stadium Saturday. The Crimson Tide, led by a COVID-19-negative Nick Saban, improved its defensive play and kept up Saban’s streak of no losses to former assistant coaches.
It's been too long, Kirby

It’s been too long, Kirby

Alexander Plant | @aplant63 and Shaun McDonald October 16, 2020

Alabama's looking hot this season on offense, but how will the defense hold up against a Kirby Smart-led offensive? With or without head coach Nick Saban, Pete Golding has improvements to make before the...

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Preview | What Mac Jones’ performance and coaching changes could mean for Alabama-Georgia

Alexander Plant | @aplant63, Sports Editor October 16, 2020

Updated Saturday, Oct. 17 Unlike Alabama’s second game against Texas A&M, the Crimson Tide’s offense against Ole Miss was not a one-trick pony. The offense’s versatility in the air and on...

The Crimson Standard: How Greg Byrne built a blue-blooded football program

The Crimson Standard: How Greg Byrne built a blue-blooded football program

Alexander Plant | @aplant63, Sports Editor October 15, 2020
The UA football program has never been one for modesty or penny-pinching. In interviews with Athletics Director Greg Byrne and former UA player Trent Richardson, Sports Editor Alexander Plant unpacks Byrne’s strategy to make Alabama football the glossiest and most alluring in the business. Read it online or in the special edition.
Student ticket resale prices surge ahead of Alabama-Georgia

Student ticket resale prices surge ahead of Alabama-Georgia

Another big home game, another rush on reselling student tickets. A flood of marked up, transferable tickets hitting the Alabama Student Ticket Exchange is nothing new, but in the wake of Bryant-Denny Stadium’s freshly reduced seating, some upperclassmen are at their wit’s end trying to secure admission.
Businesses bounce back despite quieter football season

Businesses bounce back despite quieter football season

Alexander Plant | @aplant63, Sports Editor October 14, 2020

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses across the country have felt the impact of the economic crash that took place in April and May.  Most business and economic experts predicted it would take...

Nick Saban and AD Greg Byrne test positive for COVID-19

Nick Saban and AD Greg Byrne test positive for COVID-19

Alexander Plant | @aplant63, Sports Editor October 14, 2020

COVID-19 has returned to the Alabama football program. Head coach Nick Saban and athletic director Greg Byrne tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, Oct. 14. After the coaches communicated their positive...