There are no easy games left for Alabama softball. After going 4-1 at the Stanford Nike Invitational, the Crimson Tide returns home for a five-game slate in the Easton Bama Bash against three teams who...

In the Alabama baseball team’s season opener, starting pitcher Taylor Guilbeau tied a career high by pitching seven strikeouts and six scoreless innings in Alabama’s 6-0 win over the University of...

Alabama men’s basketball never had a safe lead in its 76-68 loss at home to Vanderbilt. When the Crimson Tide pulled away, the Commodores came back. Then Vanderbilt took a lead and never gave it up.“Give...

An official visit is usually the time for coaches to market their program. Recruits can see the facilities and experience what it’s like to be on campus. Junior Leona Lafaele didn’t need an official...

If football at Alabama is king, then Sarah Patterson was queen. No other Alabama figure led with such grace and charm as Patterson. She isn’t the most legendary figure – not even she could come close...

“I don’t see the travel being a real issue, especially for college-age guys, they’re pretty resilient when it comes to that,” Gaspard said. “They’re very excited about being here.”Alabama...

There is a very good chance this version of the Kentucky Wildcats could go down as one of the best teams in the history of college basketball. John Calipari’s squad, which features a number of future...

Alabama softball’s season is already one for the history books.After coming back in the seventh inning to beat then-No. 23 South Alabama 2-1, Alabama put together a gem for the start of the Sand Dollar...

With the start of the season just around the corner, Alabama baseball coach Mitch Gaspard announced the starting pitching rotation for the Crimson Tide. The four-man rotation will consist of Taylor Guilbeau,...

Eight months ago, the Alabama softball team watched from the first base line as Florida hoisted the national championship trophy.Now, the Crimson Tide is a different team. No longer can it rely on Jaclyn...

With the season opener just around the corner, the Alabama baseball team is looking to solidify its weekend rotation while also getting familiar with most of its returning starting lineup.Coach Mitch Gaspard’s...

As I sat and watched Bill Belichick’s impromptu Saturday afternoon press conference, I realized how hard he makes it to root for the New England Patriots. The meeting, called to address the alleged deflation...

Deontay Wilder is what boxing in this country needs. When Wilder beat World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Bermane Stiverne Saturday night, he became the first American heavyweight champion since...

Alabama’s swimming and diving teams will be well represented at this week’s Arena Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, which starts Thursday and finishes Saturday.The Grand Prix, the second of six events in...

Not every success for a student-athlete is measured on the field. Hours are spent in the weight room and practice field before a game. Alabama coach Nick Saban’s 
“process” extends past the gridiron.These...

Postgame handshakes are banal at this point. Coaches make a show of sportsmanship to keep the fanbases happy and the media at bay. It’s a formality, and not one many coaches enjoy.Bill Snyder is the...

NEW ORLEANS – As any college student knows, nothing is worth doing now if it can be done five minutes before it’s due. And any college student also knows that gamble doesn’t always pay off.Alabama...

NEW ORLEANS – The Alabama defense that had kept the team in games so many times this season couldn’t hold its ground against the Ohio State Buckeyes, surrendering 28 consecutive points en route to...

NEW ORLEANS | After No. 1 Alabama’s 23-17 loss to Ole Miss on Oct. 4, the Crimson Tide hasn’t dealt much with complacency.“Since the Ole Miss game, we've sort of been in a playoff of our own kind,”...

Nick Saban wants his players to forget the past. The Alabama coach wants them to focus on what is ahead, like Saturday’s SEC Championship Game against Missouri and, with a win, a likely berth in the...

When the Alabama offensive line takes the field on Saturday, it will face its toughest task of the year. The line, which has only allowed 11 sacks all year, will have to figure out how to stop a Missouri...

Two days after winning a 55-44 shootout with Auburn, Alabama coach Nick Saban said his team is preparing for a “new season,” which will start when the Crimson Tide plays the Missouri Tigers in Atlanta...

Saturday was an offensive shootout with Alabama crawling back into contention and an eventual 55-44 win over Auburn.It took effort from every part of the offense to push past a first half performance where...

There is no bigger game in Alabama. There may not be a bigger game in the country – Alabama coach Nick Saban has said as much. “The Iron Bowl is one of the greatest rivalries in college football,”...

Amari Cooper needed four catches to become Alabama’s career reception leader. He only got three in Saturday’s 48-14 win over Western Carolina. On his third catch, he was brought down at the Western...

With the regular season coming to a close, many of Alabama’s stars will be playing in their last homecoming game and Iron Bowl in the next couple of weekends. Alabama coach Nick Saban talked about the...

The Crimson Tide practiced for the first time this week on Tuesday afternoon in preparation for Saturday’s game against the Western Carolina Catamounts. The team practiced inside in full pads, likely...

After two physically taxing wins against ranked SEC West opponents, the Crimson Tide will get a break this weekend when it plays Western Carolina. Alabama coach Nick Saban stated it is important that his...

Alabama linebacker Reggie Ragland has finally gotten the chance to prove himself this year. The junior from Madison, Alabama, who was buried on the depth chart by Nico Johnson and C.J. Mosley, has made...

Mississippi State has a good football team. Alabama coach Nick Saban isn’t the first person to say it, and he won’t be the last. Alabama’s six-game winning streak over the Bulldogs doesn’t matter....

The Cleveland Browns have put themselves in a position to make the playoffs for the first time since 2007 and to have just their third winning record since they returned to the NFL in 1999. The Browns,...

Alabama’s defense has held strong all year but this weekend’s game will be its toughest task to date. The Crimson Tide will face a high-powered Mississippi State offense that ranks No. 12 in points...

Two days after a taxing 20-13 overtime victory in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Alabama coach Nick Saban expressed his pleasure with his team’s performance but said the Tide has to get ready for another tough...

BATON ROUGE, La. – For most of the season, Amari Cooper has been the name to know in Alabama’s receiving corps. On Saturday night in Death Valley while Cooper set school records, DeAndrew White quietly...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Alabama didn’t give up many big plays to LSU in the 20-13 overtime win, and when it came down to overtime, Alabama didn’t give up any plays. “It came down to the last second,”...

Saturday’s game in Baton Rouge will be the start of Alabama’s toughest and most important month of the year. The Crimson Tide will face No. 16 LSU, No. 1 Mississippi State and No. 3 Auburn during the...

Alabama safety Landon Collins plays every game like he has something to prove. However, this Saturday’s game in Baton Rouge, the junior said, will mean just a little more for the Louisiana native. “Personally,...

The Crimson Tide will travel to Baton Rouge to face LSU this Saturday in what has become one of the SEC’s 
biggest games. “These games are traditionally very tough, physical games between two...

The wind wasn’t expected at the 27th Roberta Alison Fall Classic, but the Alabama women’s tennis team couldn’t change that. Instead, the players adapted and cruised to 33 wins in the two-day tournament....

Dennis Pursley’s first meet against Auburn as coach of the Alabama swimming and diving team wasn’t a success. Pursley, one of the most accomplished coaches in Olympic swimming history, came to Alabama...

Alabama has almost two full weeks to figure out who will replace freshman left tackle Cameron Robinson when the team plays LSU on Nov. 8 in 
Baton Rouge. “We have a couple of options there,” coach...

Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin, perhaps the most hated man in Tennessee, needed to make a statement on Saturday. Nearly five years after leaving the head coaching job at Tennessee in the dead...

Alabama will travel to Knoxville, Tennessee, this weekend to renew its annual rivalry with the Volunteers. The two sides will be meeting for the 96th time with a series record of 50-38-7 in Alabama’s...

Seven games into the season, the Alabama defense has done all it can to pressure the opposing quarterback and it has paid off. The team currently has 19 sacks, just three shy of last year’s total of...

The time has come for the Florida Gators to part ways with head coach 
Will Muschamp. The fiery coach, who is in his fourth season at Florida, has finished in the top 25 just once, and his team is already...

After beating Texas A&M 59-0 on Saturday, Alabama coach Nick Saban expressed his happiness with his team’s performance, but said he does not want to dwell on the victory. “The comfort in this last...

“Emotional” wasn’t a word used to describe Alabama until junior safety Landon Collins secured the 14-13 win over Arkansas with an interception last Saturday. That word can be used now. “I think...

Despite all the focus on defense in the 59-0 shutout of then-No. 21 Texas A&M, Alabama had some help from its stable of running backs. Against Arkansas, the Crimson Tide netted 66 yards rushing. Against...

Eight different lineups in eight different games – that’s Alabama softball coach Patrick Murphy’s plan for Fall Brawl.He said he doesn’t know if he can do it, but so far through four games, it’s...

Alabama will face another tough test this weekend when Texas A&M comes to Tuscaloosa. The Aggies possess a high-powered, spread offense that ranks third in passing yards per game with an average of 396....

After putting up at least 500 total yards in its first four games, the Alabama offense totaled only 227 total yards with just 66 on the ground in its 14-13 win against Arkansas. “I still don’t think...

Alabama coach Nick Saban has emphasized the way his team has practiced following the loss to Ole Miss. Saban said the focus has been on how the team responds from the adversity it has created for itself....

When Alabama travels to Fayetteville for the game against Arkansas, they will be facing a much different Razorback team than that of years past. Through their first five games, the Razorbacks rank in the...

After losing to Ole Miss 23-17 on Saturday, Alabama will have the unusual task of having to figure out how to recover from an early season loss. In a tough road game that was marred by injuries, penalties...

Junior running back Kenyan Drake broke his left leg in the second quarter of Saturday’s 23-17 loss to Ole Miss. He had surgery 
in Birmingham. “I think probably eight to 10 weeks before he really...

When you think of the NHL and success, you probably think of the Eastern Conference – the conference that has five of the “Original Six” teams that created the NHL and the conference that dominated...

The smoke from the Ole Miss cannon has vanished. Vaught-Hemingway Stadium has long since cleared, 61,826 people and two goalposts emptier than it was at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Alabama’s defense could only...

Blake Sims threw a short pass to Kenyan Drake for an easy 10 yards and a first down early in the second 
quarter Saturday. When Byron Bennet and Tony Conner of Ole Miss got up after making the tackle,...

Alabama quarterback Blake Sims, who has been nursing a shoulder injury since the Florida game, was still somewhat limited in Wednesday’s practice. Sims left the game against Florida after landing hard...

Blake Sims has gone from a player without a position to a record-breaking quarterback during his time at Alabama. After just four starts, he has already helped rewrite the Alabama record book, setting...

It is not news that the U.S. was beaten by Europe in the Ryder Cup over this past weekend. I say it is not news because it has become somewhat of a tradition for the Americans to lose the competition that...

It has been a while since Alabama was in Oxford, Mississippi. In fact, the last time the team was there Blake Sims was a freshman running back. He carried the ball five times for 74 yards in the 2011 game....

Alabama will face its toughest opponent so far this season when it takes on No. 11 Ole Miss this weekend. The Crimson Tide will be coming off of a bye week that coach Nick Saban said he hopes helped the...

Steven Hood, interim vice president of student affairs, held a meeting Tuesday morning to address concerns and about the police response to Sunday night’s incident at Tutwiler Hall. Hood attempted to...

Alabama safety Landon Collins said he will do whatever it takes to play against his younger brother when the Crimson Tide takes on the Florida Gators. He said he would even try to lobby to play on the...

In Blake Sims’ first play as the starter against an SEC opponent, he threw an 87-yard touchdown pass to 
Kenyan Drake. By the end of the first quarter in Saturday’s 42-21 win over Florida, Sims had...

Alabama’s defense allowed 14 points in Saturday’s 42-21 win over Florida. All 21 points were scored off of Alabama turnovers, but only two of those turnovers gave the defense some opportunity to stop...

Charlie Strong has made quite an impression since The University of Texas hired him as Mack Brown’s replacement on Jan. 5 of this year. Strong has dismissed a total of seven players, including three...

The Crimson Tide will start its SEC schedule Saturday with a home game against the Florida Gators. Alabama coach Nick Saban said the Gators are a much better team than last season’s team that finished...

Amari Cooper did it again. In Alabama’s 52-12 win over Southern Miss, the junior wide receiver put up another 100-yard receiving game, this time to the tune of 135 yards on 
eight receptions. It was...

They say patience is a virtue. If that’s true, Alabama’s tight ends must be full 
of virtue. Through two games, Ty Flournoy-Smith was the only tight end targeted by Alabama’s quarterback. He was...

The Crimson Tide practiced in full pads and 90–degree heat Tuesday afternoon for its second practice of the week leading up to the home game against the Southern Mississippi 
Golden Eagles. Senior...

Between the two of them, they put up 239 yards rushing on West Virginia in the 33 to 23 win. The offense had a net 288 yards rushing. “I like the way both guys played,” Alabama coach Nick Saban...

After two weeks and two wins, Alabama football coach Nick Saban said the status of the quarterback position remains unchanged between Blake Sims and Jake Coker after Alabama’s 41-0 win over Florida Atlantic...

The margin of victory could have been a lot higher, but Alabama soccer will take the Sunday 2-0 win over Jacksonville State. “That would be my only complaint that I could file against us tonight is we...

Two weeks into the Alabama football season, and the biggest question hasn’t been answered: Who is going to be Alabama’s quarterback? Will it be Blake Sims or Jake Coker? Fans got a chance to see both...

During his final press conference before the Crimson Tide’s Saturday home opener against Florida Atlantic, Nick Saban stressed the importance of his players’ development in 
practice. “The focus...

The University’s rowing team finished 11th in Conference USA last season. This year, the team looks forward to a new boathouse and a new fleet of boats. The Crimson White caught up with junior rower...

Alabama’s defense will be without one of its leaders to start the 2014 football season. Senior linebacker Trey DePriest will sit out Alabama’s season opener against West Virginia on Saturday. Coach...