I remember pacing the field of the Rose Bowl hours before kickoff of the 2010 BCS National Championship Game. Former assistant sports editor Spencer White and I were taking in the atmosphere in Southern...

Alabama baseball coach Mitch Gaspard has always told his players that they’re playing for more than themselves. Now, they believe it. When his team plays the first UA sporting event in Tuscaloosa since...

A week after an EF-4 tornado left many homeless, affected UA students continue to wait for insurance claims and financial assistance from the University. After the tornado hit, the University set up the...

Many have said last week’s tornado in Tuscaloosa happened for a reason, like everything else does. For former Alabama football star LeRon McClain, there is a reason for the current NFL lockout – to...

Traumatic events can have lasting effects, which is why the UA Counseling Center and other psychiatrists have stressed the importance of tornado victims to seek help. “It’s extremely important,”...

Many Alabama athletic coaches and players have spent the past three days helping in tornado relief efforts in Tuscaloosa. On top of speaking outside the Ferguson Center and on national television the...

Gas shortages are disappearing in Tuscaloosa just three days after a massive tornado hit the city. The Chevron station on Lurleen Wallace Boulevard, which was bombarded late Wednesday night being one...

The University’s athletic department compliance office has received clearance from the Southeastern Conference and the NCAA to set aside certain NCAA regulations in order assist student athletes who...

As the relief efforts flow into the damaged areas of Tuscaloosa, the University’s Student Government Association said its main role at this point is to communicate with students to keep them informed...

The magnitude of the disaster in Tuscaloosa this week has brought many of the country’s biggest and most prominent media outlets to the city.The New York Times, USA Today, Fox News, BBC News and more...

The University’s athletic department dedicated Thursday to ensuring the safety of Alabama’s student athletes, coaches, staff and employees after Wednesday’s tornado destroyed a portion of Tuscaloosa.“While...

CLEVELAND | A day after the Alabama gymnastics team won its fifth national championship, junior Geralen Stack-Eaton took home the individual floor exercise national championship at the Wolstein Center...

CLEVELAND | A day after the Alabama gymnastics team won its fifth national championship, junior Geralen Stack-Eaton took home the individual floor exercise national championship at the Wolstein Center...

CLEVELAND | In January, the Alabama gymnastics team was inexperienced an untested. In January, head coach Sarah Patterson laughed at her team’s No. 2 preseason ranking. In January, the Crimson Tide...

The Alabama gymnastics team has finished in the top three at nationals 19 of the last 25 years. Anything outside the top one tonight, however, would be a disappointment. The Crimson Tide headed into...

CLEVELAND | The hard part is out of the way. At least, that’s how Alabama head coach Sarah Patterson and gymnast Kayla Hoffman put it after advancing to Saturday’s Super Six and finishing with the...

CLEVELAND | The Alabama gymnastics team heads into the NCAA Championships as the No. 1 overall seed and will seek to make yet another Super Six tonight at 6 p.m. est time on the campus of Cleveland State...

Kayla Hoffman’s last ever performance in Coleman Coliseum may have been her best. As Alabama cruised its way to an NCAA-leading 26th Regional Championship on Saturday night, she breezed past the rest...

GYMNASTICS Team scores: Alabama – 197.275 Illinois – 195.925 Penn State – 195.85 Auburn – 195.6 Kentucky – 195.175 Central Michigan – 195.075 By the numbers:...

Kayla Hoffman’s last ever performance in Coleman Coliseum may have been her best. As Alabama cruised its way to an NCAA-leading 26th Regional Championship Saturday night, she breezed past the rest of...

Alabama looks for its 30th straight NCAA Championship appearance tonight in Coleman Coliseum. Here is Alabama's lineup for the Tuscaloosa Regional. Vault: 1. Sarah DeMeo 2. Ashley Sledge 3. Marissa...

Stop apologizing to Virginia Commonwealth. Stop proclaiming the Rams have validated the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee’s decision. Instead, recognize the difference between deserving something...

BIRMINGHAM | The Alabama gymnastics team had the Southeastern Conference Championship locked up before they even knew it. As the No. 2 Crimson Tide sat out the last rotation on a bye and No. 1 Florida...

Alabama safety Mark Barron was arrested in Mobile early Sunday morning on the second-degree misdemeanor charge of hindering prosecution. Barron's bond was listed at $500 and was released within an hour...

BIRMINGHAM | The Alabama gymnasts had the SEC Championship locked up before they even knew it. As the No. 2 Crimson Tide sat out the last rotation on a bye and No. 1 Florida was wrapping up its final...

Alabama goes for its seventh Southeastern Conference title this evening in Birmingham. Follow the meet on Twitter @cwsports. Here is Alabama's lineup for the seven-rotation meet.   Rotation 1 - uneven...

As the University’s Spring Break approached, the Alabama gymnastics team was swamped with homework and midterms. Despite a stress-filled week of preparation, the No. 2 Crimson Tide closed out the regular...

After averaging just 195.77 in its first five meets of the season, Alabama will try to make it five straight 197+ scores tonight against LSU before beginning postseason play at the SEC Championships in...

Since the NFL Combine, some have speculated that no running backs will be taken in the first round of April’s NFL Draft. Mark Ingram may have changed those opinions Wednesday. The Heisman Trophy winner...

After getting outscored by 27 points in the second half at Florida on Tuesday, the Alabama basketball team got the quality win it needed with a 65-57 victory over Georgia in Coleman Coliseum Saturday....

A week ago, when the Crimson Tide was 11-2 in SEC play, Alabama was sitting pretty for the NCAA Tournament. Two games and two losses later, the Tide is on the outside looking in, and today's regular-season...

Everyone remembers when Mark Ingram won the Heisman Trophy. They remember his 246-yard performance against South Carolina in 2009, Marcell Dareus’ less-than-graceful touchdown in the 2010 BCS National...

View Photo GalleryAs head coach Sarah Patterson puts it, Geralen Stack-Eaton has a tendency to be her own worst enemy. In Friday night’s Pink Meet against Kentucky, however, even Stack-Eaton couldn’t...

Sarah Patterson broke the season down into three parts for her team. The first five meets, the second five meets and the postseason. Looks like the season turned just at the right time. After getting...

Vault: 1. Marissa Gutierrez 2. Sarah DeMeo 3. Ashley Sledge 4. Geralen Stack-Eaton 5. Kayla Hoffman 6. Diandra Milliner Bars: 1. Ashley Sledge 2. Becca Alexin 3. Rachel Terry 4. Jordan Moore...

Alabama has won 100 straight meets over Auburn, dating back to coach David and Sarah Patterson's first year at the school 33 years ago. The Crimson Tide will try to to make it 101 tonight at 7:30 p.m....

Cyrus Kouandjio, rated the No. 1 offensive tackle in the country, said in a Facebook status that he will keep the family together and attend the University of Alabama next season. Kouandjio has sent his...

Cyrus Kouandjio, rated the No. 1 offensive tackle in the country, said in a facebook status that he will keep the family together and attend the University of Alabama next season. Al.com is reporting that...

Less than halfway through the season, the Alabama gymnastics team is already preparing itself for the end of it. A week after scoring a season-high in a championship setting, the undefeated Crimson Tide...

Seven members of the Alabama gymnastics team stood outside Ridgecrest South dormitory for an hour and a half early Friday morning. The fire alarm had just sounded, and nearly half the team’s sleep was...

Seven members of the Alabama gymnastics team stood outside Ridgecrest South dormitory for an hour and a half early Friday morning. The fire alarm had just sounded, and nearly half the team’s sleep was...

Alabama trailed by a point and a half after one rotation last week at No. 10 Arkansas before coming back to win by .15. The Crimson Tide can only hope it won't have another disastrous performance on bars...

There is no question the Alabama gymnastics team lacks experience. But it only took one meet for the Crimson Tide’s freshman class to showcase what they do have: talent, poise and confidence. Last...

Saturday was not the ending Crimson Tide fans expected back in August. But it was a win, and a dominant one at that. Alabama’s 49-7 victory over No. 9 Michigan State in the Capital One Bowl was its...

Alabama was beating up on Cam Newton and the No. 2 Auburn Tigers like no one had all season. But just like the Crimson Tide has done all year, or has failed to do, it could not play four quarters of solid...

Alabama’s 63-7 victory over Georgia State Thursday night may have been the exception to the Crimson Tide’s 24-hour rule. While most games allow Alabama to enjoy a win or grieve a loss for one day,...

Alabama caught a bit of bad luck when Michigan State used a comeback to avoid an upset to Northwestern this weekend, but the No. 7 Crimson Tide’s national championship hopes still got stronger over the...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. | For perhaps the first time since conference play started, the Crimson Tide’s ground and passing games coincided, resulting in 536 yards of a complete offensive attack in a 41-10 blowout...

Alabama’s national championship hopes got significantly stronger over the weekend, even though its 23-10 victory over Ole Miss wasn’t the most impressive. With Ohio State’s loss to Wisconsin and...

2 | The most years of experience of Tide players who forced a turnover in Saturday’s game. Sophomores Nico Johnson, Courtney Upshaw and Dre Kirkpatrick and freshman C.J. Mosley were responsible for the...

Alabama’s victory over No. 7 Florida Saturday proved the Crimson Tide’s second-half comeback the week before against Arkansas was no fluke. If anything, it proved the fluke of that game was the first...

Some things are better left unforgotten. In the second half of Saturday’s game against No. 10 Arkansas (3-1, 1-1), it appeared the top-ranked Crimson Tide (4-0, 1-0) had put the first half behind them....

It was obvious from the very first play of Saturday’s game. Mark Ingram isn’t worried about his knee, and Alabama fans shouldn’t be either. The junior broke off a 48-yard run on the first play...

It didn’t matter which offensive aspect Penn State decided to take away from Alabama. The No. 1 Crimson Tide (2-0) meshed power running with five-wide passing to control a 24-3 victory in Bryant-Denny...

How could you develop a team so deep that the absence of a reigning Heisman Trophy winner would hardly make a difference? We’ve only seen tragedies in the past. We saw it when Texas quarterback and...

Many thought this would be the year Julio Jones emerges into one of the top wide receivers in the country. The junior didn’t waste any time trying to prove that statement right in Alabama’s 48-3 victory...

Offense: 3.8 Maybe Alabama doesn’t even need defending Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram. The Crimson Tide looked great through the air and on the ground, validating its depth by continuing to pile...

It appears nothing good could come from an NFL lockout in 2011. The players won’t play, the owners will lose more money and the only thing professional football fans can watch on the weekends will be...

It appears nothing good could come from an NFL lockout in 2011. The players won’t play, the owners will lose more money and the only thing professional football fans can watch on the weekends will be...

How different would you live if Jesus was your roommate? If he was your best friend? If Jesus followed you everywhere you went? After coming across a passage I’ve heard 100 times the other day, I asked...

Four columns in, I think it may be time to share the testimony of my faith and use it to explain how evangelizing does not always have to be a grueling task. I grew up going through the motions in a Catholic...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. | On the back of John Wall’s 16 second-half points, Kentucky fended off a scare from Alabama in the quarterfinals of the Southeastern Conference tournament, edging the Crimson Tide...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – When the Alabama men’s basketball team found itself down 18 points in the first round of the Southeastern Conference tournament Thursday, with less than 12 minutes remaining, head...

Whenever I tell someone I don’t drink, I always get the same response. “Oh, so you’re one of those hardcore Christians,” they say. The sad part about that statement is not that everyone drinks,...

Eighteen former Alabama players participated in the Crimson Tide’s Pro Day Wednesday. All 32 NFL teams were represented in Alabama’s indoor practice facility, including three head coaches: Rex Ryan...

Tonight will finally settle it. No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Oklahoma have been leapfrogging each other for the nation’s top spot for most of the season, and the two will meet in Norman, Okla., tonight at...

In the backbone of atheism, what they say disproves Christianity. But although science has done many great things for this world, it holds no legitimacy when it comes to proving or disproving how we were...