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,”...
Neighbors Sam Rombokas and Modell Hawkins used to wave at each other across the street and talk about why Rombokas’ grass always looks better than Hawkins’. “As soon as the weather looks good, you’ve...
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 | University of Alabama gymnasts, coaches, parents, athletic department officials and fans piled into Cleveland’s Hard Rock Café on Saturday evening not more than an hour after winning the...
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...
Particularly at the University of Alabama, it is easy to rekindle tradition that is rich in history. Rarely, however, is that storied past recognized from its true beginning, when it was practically nothing,...
They say competition brings the out the best in someone. That rang true among the Alabama wide receiving corps in Saturday’s scrimmage. With uncertainty about the starting lineup at that position, Marquis...
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...
The Alabama gymnastics team has won a Regional Championship 25 of the last 28 years and has advanced to nationals each of the past 29 seasons. That is still not quite enough for the Crimson Tide to look...
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...
When the gymnastics preseason coaches’ poll was released in early January, Alabama head coach Sarah Patterson couldn’t help but laugh. Her team, who had lost three All-Americans to graduation and...
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 the Alabama basketball team’s 65-57 victory over Georgia on Saturday, the Crimson Tide players congregated at midcourt in Coleman Coliseum and began a dance-off. The Jumbotron captured the players...
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...
Geralen Stack-Eaton’s biggest strength is also her biggest weakness. The gymnast, a junior, has always been a perfectionist, and while that mentality has helped her develop her talent, it has also occasionally...
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...
Over the last two weeks, the Alabama gymnastics team has proven it can post some of the nation’s top scores. Now the Crimson Tide will try to show that going on the road will not change that. After...
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...
Not long after former Alabama gymnast Ann Wilhide Dziadon was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, she came to Tuscaloosa before the team’s annual Pink Meet to talk to the current Crimson Tide gymnasts...
View Photo GalleryThe student section beat the rest of the sold-out crowd to Coleman Coliseum Friday night to see the Alabama gymnastics team extend its winning streak over rival Auburn to 101 straight...
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....
Alabama gymnastics head coach Sarah Patterson has never been known to scold her team. They rarely give her a reason to. Last week’s meet against top-ranked Florida, however, was an exception. After...
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...
When Kayla Hoffman wanted to leave elite-level gymnastics and accept a scholarship to the University of Alabama, her coaches had plenty of reasons to convince her otherwise. Her lines were perfect. The...
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...
Alabama gymnastics head coach Sarah Patterson remembers standing on street corners, putting stickers on cars and spending hours greeting people at the mall. All she wanted was to invite people to come...
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...
In one sense, the characters do not match this story. Another perspective would say they fit perfectly. Cecil Newton and his wife Jackie spent an entire year trying to muster the income to keep the Holy...
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,...
BATON ROUGE, La. | The sequel to last year’s fairy tale does not have a happy ending. With Alabama’s 24-21 loss to LSU on Saturday, nothing short of a miracle could save Alabama’s national championship...
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...
Alabama has been pushed to the limit this season, even overmatched at times. The Crimson Tide’s 41-10 victory over Tennessee was refreshing – its first comfortable road win against a Southeastern...
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...
For the first 30 minutes of Saturday’s 23-10 victory over Ole Miss, Alabama looked like the national championship-winning team from last season. The Crimson Tide had a comfortable lead and smothered...
I wish I could be optimistic. I want to point to the fact that the last three national champions before Alabama last year finished the season with a blemish on their record. I want to reiterate that the...
They say all good things must come to an end. Before Alabama’s longstanding winning streak ended in Columbia, S.C., Saturday, however, there was a feeling that it never would. “We can’t just show...
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 on 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...
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...
There comes a point in every athlete’s career when they know they are at the end. Tyrone Prothro is not there yet. For every year he’s had to create himself in the Madden video game series, and for...
Alabama’s passing defense is like the kid who gets a double chocolate cone after severely scrapping his knee in the process of chasing down the ice cream truck. The Crimson Tide’s narrow escape of...
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 that 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 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...
Junior running back Mark Ingram participated in parts of practice Wednesday and is close to being ready to play, according to head coach Nick Saban. “Mark was in gear today for some of the stuff and...
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...
Mark Ingram had surgery on his left knee Tuesday for an injury sustained in Monday’s practice and has been ruled out of Saturday’s game against San Jose State. “Mark had an arthroscopic procedure...
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...
After the Alabama football team held practice Monday morning, a few players knew something needed to change. A group of team members that included quarterback Greg McElroy, linebacker Dont’a Hightower,...
After freshman Corey Grant and Michael Bowman practiced at a different position for the second straight day Tuesday, head coach Nick Saban said the experiments are just that, experiments. Grant, who came...
If this were a novel, it would never make it to the shelf. It would be too cliché, lost among thick piles of other stories with resolved conflict and happy endings. But the cliché found its way...
After Rolando McClain and Kareem Jackson landed in the top-20 picks of the NFL Draft on Thursday, five more Crimson Tide players were selected over the weekend. Cornerback Javier Arenas became the first...
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...
After retaining the No. 1 spot in the polls for the fourth straight week and the seventh this season, the Alabama gymnastics team heads into the Southeastern Conference Championships in Jacksonville, Fla.,...
The Alabama football team had its third practice of the spring and first in full pads Wednesday afternoon at the Thomas-Drew Practice Facility. “It’s been quite a long time since [the players] have...
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...
Alabama sophomore gymnast Ashley Priess knows what it’s like to run a marathon, only to pull up with the finish line in sight. In 2008, she stood one good meet away from joining the United States...
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...
