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Lessons learned: A look into Alabama Women’s Basketball’s recent struggles

Lessons learned: A look into Alabama Women’s Basketball’s recent struggles

Robert Cortez, Staff Reporter September 13, 2020
For Alabama Women’s basketball and teams across the sports world, there’s one key factor to winning games: finish strong. However, a strong finish in basketball may topple the rest, as the victor can be decided within seconds. Great basketball teams find a way to win closely-contested games that come down to the last few possessions. 
Who wants Bama? Here are the Tide’s top 10 baseball rivalries

Who wants Bama? Here are the Tide’s top 10 baseball rivalries

Ashlee Woods | @ashleemwoods, Contributing Writer September 13, 2020

The Alabama baseball team has had its fair share of intense rivalries. But which of them rank among the top? Here’s a list of the top 10 Alabama Baseball rivalries of all-time. #10: Alabama vs. the...

Analysis: These players will be vital to UA softball’s 2021 championship chase

Analysis: These players will be vital to UA softball’s 2021 championship chase

Robert Cortez, Staff Reporter September 3, 2020

Alabama’s returning talent makes the 2021 season look like one for the ages, but it will take more than a team’s starting nine to hoist a national championship in Oklahoma City come June. The past...

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‘This has to be an ongoing movement’: Student-athletes protest systemic racism

Alexander Plant, Ashlee Woods, and Robert Cortez August 31, 2020
Monday afternoon, student-athletes organized a march against social injustice and police brutality. The march started at Mal M. Moore Athletic Facility and concluded with a program outside of Foster Auditorium, the site of former governor George Wallace’s infamous “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door.”
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GALLERY: Alabama student-athletes lead Black Lives Matter march

August 31, 2020

Hundreds of Alabama student-athletes and coaches from all of the sports teams marched from the Mal Moore Athletic Complex to Foster Auditorium to protest police brutality against Black Americans and to...

Sarah Patterson made an eternal impact on women’s sports

Sarah Patterson made an eternal impact on women’s sports

Ashlee Woods | @ashleemwoods, Contributing Writer August 30, 2020

In 1972, the Title IX amendment gave equality to men’s and women’s sports, spawning the creation of the Alabama gymnastics team in 1974. The consistent national championship-contending teams we see...

A fresh start: Nate Oats’ first season in review

A fresh start: Nate Oats’ first season in review

Clayton Connick, Contributing Writer August 29, 2020
Nate Oats’ first season as the head coach of Alabama Men’s Basketball had almost every twist and turn a basketball fan could imagine
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Alabama Athletics resume after months-long drought

Robert Cortez, Contributing Writer August 23, 2020

As the fall athletics season rapidly approaches, the question of whether college athletics should be played in 2020 looms even larger. The PAC-12 and Big Ten conferences decided to cancel fall sports and...

Face masks and football: What to expect on game days this fall

Face masks and football: What to expect on game days this fall

Game days in Bryant-Denny Stadium will look different for UA students this fall. Tailgating is off limits, face masks are required and the stadium will maintain 20% seating capacity.   Given the possibility...

Volleyball looks to improve under Devine

Volleyball looks to improve under Devine

Ashlee Woods | @ashleemwoods, Contributing Writer August 20, 2020

UA Volleyball Coach Lindsey Devine has made it very clear that she wants to impart a new mentality onto the team. Starting back in 2019, Devine was gearing up for a successful 2020 season. She wanted to...

Open Letter: A message from Coach Nate Oats

Open Letter: A message from Coach Nate Oats

Nate Oats, Head Men's Basketball Coach August 20, 2020

Welcome back to Tuscaloosa! On behalf of the Alabama Crimson Tide and your men’s basketball players, coaches and staff, we are excited to have you back on campus for the 2020-21 academic year. It is...

Preview: NBA Finals promise landslide wins, tough match-ups

Preview: NBA Finals promise landslide wins, tough match-ups

Alexander Plant | @aplant63, Sports Editor August 18, 2020

Before the NBA's bubble can burst, there are several playoff games to be played. Some may ends in sweeps, but others will have us on the edges of our seats. Eastern Conference Milwaukee Bucks (Seed 1)...