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Junior Diandra Milliner wins NCAA vault title

CW Staff April 23, 2013

A year after placing second, Alabama gymnast Diandra Milliner won the NCAA Vault Championship Sunday in Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus. Milliner shared the title with LSU’s Rheagan Courville after...

Students push to see slave quarters on tours

CW Staff April 22, 2013

By Ellen Coogan and Mark Hammontree Although they are painted crisp white to match the President’s Mansion, the former slave quarters behind the mansion serve as a subtle reminder of some of the darker...

Tide finishes 3rd behind Gators, Sooners

Tide finishes 3rd behind Gators, Sooners

CW Staff April 22, 2013

For the third year in a row, the NCAA Gymnastics Championships came down to the last rotation with Alabama locked in a tight battle for the title. After winning the NCAA Championship in 2011 and 2012,...

Men’s golf team wins 2nd SEC championships

CW Staff April 22, 2013

The second-ranked Alabama men’s golf team battled through 30 mph winds at the challenging Sea Island Golf Club Sunday to hold off South Carolina for the program’s fourth SEC Championship and second...

Grant adds two experienced players to roster

CW Staff April 18, 2013

Alabama men’s basketball team head coach Anthony Grant announced the addition of two veteran players to the Crimson Tide roster next season. Guard Ricky Tarrant, a two-time all-conference performer from...

Rebels sweep series over Crimson Tide

CW Staff April 15, 2013

Tanner Mathis delivered a bases-loaded walk-off single in the bottom of the 11th inning to lift the No. 18 Mississippi Rebels to a 4-3 Southeastern Conference win over No. 22 Alabama on Sunday afternoon...

Alabama teams rely on Booster Club support

CW Staff April 9, 2013

By Kyle Dennan and John Burleson Last weekend 2,000 University of Alabama students were able watch the Tide compete in the NCAA Regional meet in Tuscaloosa free of charge thanks to the gymnastics booster...

Stores offer options for movers

CW Staff April 8, 2013

By Tori Linville and Ellen Coogan The end of the semester is approaching for most University of Alabama students and with it, the moving trucks of May. However, students leaving for summer have many options...

Staff reporter fabricated sources in CW

CW Staff March 20, 2013

A Crimson White reporter fabricated sources in several news stories dating back to Jan. 10 of this year, a review of the reporter’s work by Crimson White editors has found. The reporter has been removed...

Alabama jumps to No. 3 at end of season

CW Staff March 19, 2013

The Alabama gymnastics team moved up to No. 3 in the national rankings after closing out its regular season with a 197.525 last Friday, which it used to knock off then No. 1 Oklahoma. It was the Crimson...

Men’s tennis team wins 4-3 over Auburn

CW Staff March 18, 2013

Freshman Becker O’Shaughnessey came up big for the Crimson Tide men’s tennis team, outlasting sophomore Lukas Ollert to clinch Alabama’s 4-3 victory over Auburn on Saturday at the Yarbrough Tennis...

UA finishes tournament tied for 2nd

CW Staff March 12, 2013

The second-ranked Alabama men’s golf team finished tied for second at the 2013 Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters after shooting a 4-over-par 292 in the final round at the par-72, 7,510-yard Southern...

Golfweek names Tide its Team of the Week

CW Staff March 12, 2013

The Alabama women’s golf team was named the National Team of the Week on Monday by Golfweek following the Crimson Tide’s victory at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate. The second-ranked Tide, who entered...

Some avoid high out-of-state tuition

CW Staff March 12, 2013

One UA student said she has gone as far looking to purchase a grave plot in an Alabama cemetery to prove her commitment to living in the Heart of Dixie so she can receive in-state tuition rates. The difference...

Paine finishes 7th in pole vault; Reid, 5th

CW Staff March 11, 2013

The University of Alabama’s Alexis Paine set a school record in the women’s pole vault, and Jonathan Reid set a new personal best in the men’s triple jump, as both earned All-America honors Saturday...

Paine, Schade earn All-SEC honors

CW Staff March 5, 2013

UA senior pole vaulter Alexis Paine and senior high jumper Krystle Schade earned all-conference honors, in addition to the Crimson Tide placing a league-leading five athletes on the Southeastern Conference’s...

Former Alabama golfer wins first PGA event

CW Staff March 4, 2013

Former Alabama golfer Michael Thompson shot a final-round 69 on Sunday to claim his first PGA Tour victory at the 2013 Honda Classic at PGA National. “I am so proud of Michael,” Alabama head golf...

Tide wins Puerto Rico Classic 3rd straight time

CW Staff February 20, 2013

The No. 3 Alabama men’s golf team continued its impressive play on Tuesday, securing the program’s third straight win in the Puerto Rico Classic with a final-round 14-under-par 274 at the 6,902-yard,...

Alabama gymnastics team moves up to No. 4

CW Staff February 19, 2013

The Alabama gymnastics team moved up to No. 4 in the national rankings after beating Auburn with a season-best score of 197.650 last Friday. In addition posting its best overall score of the season, the...

Tide drops road match at Clemson, 5-2

CW Staff February 18, 2013

The Alabama men’s tennis team fell to Clemson, 5-2, on Friday at the Hoke Sloan Tennis Center, moving the Crimson Tide to 7-3 on the season and the Tigers to 7-1 overall. Clemson took a 1-0 edge in...

Gauging the good of guns

CW Staff February 18, 2013

I hadn’t shot a gun since Boy Scout camp eight years ago. Born and raised in Miami, Fla., hunting is not something that was handed down from my father to me as it is often in the Deep South. For us,...

HCA lecture covers equality

CW Staff February 14, 2013

In an HCA Talk titled, “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” a communication studies professor said marriage equality is a major modern social justice issue that will be studied in the future. Professor...

Tide freshman named Freshman of the Week

CW Staff February 13, 2013

University of Alabama freshman Elias Hakansson of Halmstad, Sweden, was named the Southeastern Conference Men’s Track and Field Freshman of the Week on Tuesday, the SEC Office announced. Hakansson broke...

How does your major stack up?

CW Staff February 11, 2013

The information in the chart below comes from the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. It shows the number of undergraduate degrees awarded from fall 2011 to summer 2012 based on major....

National Signing Day 2013 liveblog

National Signing Day 2013 liveblog

CW Staff February 6, 2013

By Marc Torrence and Marquavius Burnett Update: 3:21 p.m. Five-star defensive tackle A'Shawn Robinson makes it official with his commitment to Alabama over Texas. A'Shawn Robinson From: Fort Worth,...