The world of sports in Alabama is a funny thing. Without professional franchises in the state and nothing to watch on Sunday, fans live and die by their Saturdays. Loyalty lines are drawn at an early age...

As Alabama quarterback Jake Coker took a knee on Saturday to secure a 30-16 Alabama win over LSU, Bryant-Denny Stadium erupted into the loudest Rammer Jammer I had heard in a long time. It was a bittersweet...

In the spirit of the Alabama-LSU rivalry week, The Advocate of Baton Rouge published a piece on the top 10 reasons LSU fans hate, loathe and despise the Crimson Tide, citing coach Nick Saban, Alabama’s...

After a win on the road against the Georgia Bulldogs in the team's last outing, the Alabama Crimson Tide soccer team lost a tough one at home in overtime to the Missouri Tigers 2-1.Despite tying the game...

On August 24, 2012, Abby Lutzenkirchen, a freshman from Marietta, Georgia, played her first game at the Alabama Soccer Complex in front of a crowd of over 1,200, Nervous before that game, veterans on the...

There was once a time when the biggest rivalry game on Alabama’s slate did not fall on the final week of the regular season. Instead of the Iron Bowl, fans eagerly awaited the third Saturday in October....

Two weeks ago, the Alabama football team traveled to Athens, Georgia, to defeat the Georgia Bulldogs 38-10 to regain momentum after a tough loss to Ole Miss.After losing their last five matches, coach...

When Alabama prepared to travel to Athens, Georgia, to take on the University of Georgia, pundits knew a storm was coming; they just slightly missed its course. For the first time in 72 games, Alabama...

At the age of four, Emily Rusk wanted to do everything like her big sister Katherine. So when Katherine started playing soccer, little sister Emily followed.Katherine would play the forward position while...

Watching his father and older brother playing on the tennis court inspired a 5-year-old Mazen Osama to pick up a tennis racket. Three years later, he played in his first tournament, and he won it. Now...

McDonough, Georgia, doesn’t ring a bell to most people. A small blip on the map 30 minutes south of Atlanta on the mighty I-75, the sleepy suburb is right in the heart of Bulldog country, only a little...

Since the late 1800s, the Alabama vs. Auburn football competition has been one of the greatest rivalries in sports history.Whether it’s the chants of “Roll Tide” or “War Eagle” rooming through...

Standing on the field at Olympic Stadium in Montreal Celia Jimenez looks into the stands to see her parents. She then flashes back to the moment when she kicked her first soccer ball at the age of six.She...

The “I Believe” chants sound loud in the soccer complex. All three of Alabama's victories have come at home. Coach Wes Hart and the Crimson Tide soccer team will finish off a long four-game home stand...

The Alabama Crimson Tide soccer team finished the first weekend of a four game home stand with a 1-0 victory over the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles.Friday night Alabama secured a 3-2 double overtime...

By Kayla Montgomery | Sports EditorThe preseason hasn't been easy for the Alabama volleyball team. Entering into this weekend's Crimson-White Tournament in Tuscaloosa, the team, which returned all of its...

Amongst bellows of “one at a time,” and cheers by fans, the Alabama volleyball team battled to keep the lead in the fifth set. After fighting back to 15 all, a kill and an attack error decided Alabama’s...

By Marquis Munson | Staff ReporterThe Alabama Crimson Tide football team has battled with the LSU Tigers over the years. Even though that rivalry will never hold up against their in-state rival the Auburn...

Urban legend has it that Alabama gained the elephant as its mascot in 1930. Coach Wallace Wade and his team faced off against Mississippi on Oct. 8, inspiring an Atlanta Journal sports writer to compose...

After playing Madden 16, many sports fans will play the game hoping that EA Sports come out with another NCAA Football.In September 2013, EA Sports announced that NCAA Football 14 would be the final game...

On Sunday night, Coach Wes Hart and the Alabama soccer team dropped their third loss of the season on the road against the Rhode Island Rams with a final score of 1-0.In the first period, Alabama tried...

As Wes Hart begins his coaching era in Tuscaloosa for the Alabama Crimson Tide Soccer team, Emma Welch begins her journey on the field for his new look team.The freshman midfielder is making a name for...

Anticipation ran rampant throughout Tuscaloosa on Nov. 30, 2014. Fans fueled by the thought of revenge against the Auburn Tigers filed into Bryant-Denny Stadium on the late fall Saturday, ready to see...

After a tough scoreless tie against Wake Forest on Friday night at the Alabama Soccer Complex, the Alabama Crimson Tide soccer team dropped a 2-1 loss on the road against the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles...

After a victory in their home season opener, Coach Wes Hart and the Alabama Crimson Tide soccer team returned home to the Alabama Soccer Complex on Friday night with a scoreless draw against the Wake...

In his first game in Tuscaloosa, coach Wes Hart and the Alabama soccer team made their home season debut in front of a large crowd at the Alabama Soccer Stadium, coming away with a 1-0 victory against...

After a hard-fought 1-0 loss to the Memphis Tigers in their season opener, head coach Wes Hart and the Alabama soccer team answered back with 1-0 victory against the Troy Trojans in their first home game...

After a successful amateur career, former Alabama football player Eryk Anders made his pro debut in mixed martial arts with a TKO victory 40 seconds into the first round against Joshua Raspberry at the...

Last season, Amari Cooper electrified fans with his big play skills on the field of Bryant-Denny Stadium and the rest of the SEC. Now the 6’4”, wide receiver from Miami, Florida, looks to do the same...

Back in 2014, former San Antonio Silver Star Becky Hammon became the first hired female assistant coach in the NBA when she landed a job on Gregg Popovich’s San Antonio Spurs coaching staff. One year...

When Alabama strength and conditioning coach Scott Cochran is in a room, people notice. His signature voice booms from the Bryant-Denny speakers on Saturdays in the fall, his chain of “Yeah yeah yeah,”...

It was the fourth quarter of the 1967 Iron Bowl, and all hope seemed lost for Paul “Bear” Bryant’s Crimson Tide football team. Alabama was trailing the Tigers 3-0,and Birmingham’s Legion Field...

Kentucky’s senior nose guard Melvin Lewis may be a big guy, standing at 6 feet 4 inches and weighing 332 pounds, but it was his big heart toward adversity on and off the field that was the story at last...

HOOVER — Vanderbilt was the last team to speak on Monday’s session of SEC Media Days. It was also the last on the record book in the SEC in the 
2014 season.In Derek Mason’s first season as head...

HOOVER — Head coach Steve Spurrier and the South Carolina Gamecocks kicked off the second day of SEC Media Days on Tuesday. The Gamecocks finished last season 7-6, 3-5 in the SEC, but 
Spurrier said...

HOOVER — On Monday, the Auburn Tigers kicked off SEC Media Days in Hoover. The big question going into Auburn’s media time was improvement on the defensive side of the ball.In December 2014, after...

HOOVER — Tennessee came into SEC Media Days on Tuesday with expectations set by the media and itself that this could be the season the team contends with the SEC East.In his third season as head coach,...

By Kayla Montgomery | Staff ReporterWhile the U.S. women’s national soccer team was taking home its third World Cup title, USA Softball defeated Japan 6-1 in Irvine, California to win its eighth World...

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has been to six Super Bowls, winning four. But his battle with the National Football League to prove his innocence in the infamous "Deflategate" scandal is proving...

On the Fourth of July weekend, the Pro Ski Tour will host the Inaugural Malibu Cup in Alabama featuring some of the best of the best in water skiing for Pro Men and Women Slalom, ski show and exhibitions.The...

As the Fourth of July holiday draws near, countless people will trade the boardroom for board shorts, dress shoes for water skis and office supplies for River Rats and Coppertone, preparing to spend the...

Earlier this month, six Alabama baseball players were taken in the 2015 MLB Draft. It was the highest number of Crimson Tide players taken since 2010, and the five players selected before the start of...

This Thursday, the 2015 NBA Draft gets underway and teams will try to rebuild their organizations with some of the most talented college and international players. One of those teams in dying need of rebuilding...

For Alabama’s Quanesha Burks, the fifth time’s the charm.On her fifth attempt of the day, Burks jumped a wind-aided 22 feet, 8 inches in the women’s long jump. She had another attempt, but she didn’t...

Jay Deas has followed boxing his whole life. His brother, Tommy, used to write for various national boxing publications and his father would take them to all the fights within 100 miles. While attending...

Deontay Wilder, the WBC heavyweight champion of the world, stepped into SKYY Boxing Gym in Northport on a rainy Thursday afternoon for his media workouts. Wilder is preparing for his World Boxing Council...

LeBron James’ return to Cleveland was one of the biggest moves in NBA history. The break-up between the organization and James in 2010 left the city of Cleveland broken and bitter as it watched its basketball...

By Marquis MunsonThe American criminal justice system holds as a central tenet that all defendants are innocent until proven guilty. However, in sports you are innocent until off-the-field scrutiny. Those...

As spring sports seasons wind to a close, take a look at where three Alabama athletics teams stand. While gymnastics has closed out its run, the women's tennis and men's golf teams have finished SEC tournaments...

Alabama gymnastics coach Dana Duckworth doesn’t like 
to lose.After falling off the balance beam in the 1991 NCAA Championships, Duckworth learned her lesson.“She didn’t win the balance beam,”...

In just one night’s work, the Alabama gymnastics team claimed its 30th regional title, secured its 33rd consecutive trip to the NCAA Championship and extended its winning streak over Auburn to 114 meets....

Lauren Beers is no stranger to teamwork.Growing up, her family could have occupied every fielding position on a baseball diamond, competed as a basketball team with members to spare and made up half of...

For the 12 Alabama rowing seniors, Saturday’s regatta against Jacksonville University was the culmination of a career of growth and change. In October, the team moved from its former home of trailers...

By Kayla Montgomery | Assistant Sports EditorAfter trailing for two rotations, the No. 5 Alabama gymnastics team claimed its ninth SEC championship with a score of 197.525, topping LSU, Florida and Auburn...

DULUTH, Ga.-- After trailing for two rotations, the No. 5 Alabama gymnastics team claimed its ninth SEC championship with a score of 197.525, topping LSU, Florida and Auburn in the second session of...

In their career, the Alabama gymnastics seniors have seen a conference championship, three regional championships and a national title. They’ve seen the end of one era and the beginning of another as...

After an uncharacteristic performance in the floor exercise, the No. 6 Alabama gymnastics team extended its 35-year win streak over the No. 9 Auburn Tigers to 112 meets after topping the Tigers 197.2-197.025...

It’s safe to say that as a young child, I had little interest in sports. At age four, I fell asleep in the Georgia Dome while watching the Atlanta Falcons, snoozing away the last two quarters of a game...

A week after falling to No. 2 LSU in Coleman Coliseum, the No. 6 Alabama gymnastics team will take to the road for two meets in three days. The team will travel to Columbia, Missouri, to take on No. 24...

There was a time when Alabama senior gymnast Kaitlyn Clark didn’t know The University of Alabama had a gymnastics team.Now, the Rancho Cucamonga, California, native has found her home as a senior on...

It was, for decades, the biggest rivalry in college gymnastics.The University of Alabama versus The University of Georgia pitted two rival coaches – Alabama’s former coach Sarah Patterson and UGA’s...

Much has changed around the UA Athletics Department in the span of almost two decades. Facilities have grown grander as budgets have gotten bigger, handfuls of coaches have come and gone and come again...

Not even Friday the 13th could stop the Alabama gymnastics team.On the famously unlucky evening, Alabama gymnastics followed several personal-best and two team-best apparatus scores to beat Boise State...

For 36 years, coach Sarah Patterson was the face of the Alabama gymnastics team. Her 1,006 wins, 43 postseason championships and six national championships with the Crimson Tide, as well as her philanthropic...

So far this season, Alabama has defeated reigning co-national champion, Florida, and handed Auburn its 111th consecutive loss in a lopsided rivalry series. The team is ranked No. 6 nationally, and has...

After a close meet in Coleman Coliseum Friday night, the Alabama gymnastics team defeated Auburn 197.325-196.825, extending its 35-year win streak over the Tigers to 
111 meets.Though the Crimson Tide...

It’s been 110 meets since Auburn has beaten The University of Alabama 
gymnastics team.It’s been 35 years since the Tigers defeated the Crimson Tide in a meet, but don’t expect the Alabama gymnasts...

Energy has been a constant theme of the University of Alabama gymnastics team three meets into its 2015 season. The energy the team lacked in its first road meet to Arkansas, resulting in a loss, returned...

Only a week after a meltdown on the balance beam cost the Alabama gymnastics team its first road meet of the season, the team responded in a big way. The Crimson Tide defeated the top-ranked Florida Gators...

Only a week after a meltdown on the balance beam cost the Alabama gymnastics team its first road meet of the season, the team responded in a big way. The Crimson Tide defeated the top-ranked Florida Gators...

It’s no secret that rivalries run deep in the Southeastern Conference, and while the traditional great gymnastics rivalry has been between The University of Alabama and the University of Georgia, there...