The Alabama basketball team opened the Avery Johnson era with a sluggish 77-64 win over Kennesaw State on Friday night. The win showcased the struggles the team faces to implement the high-speed offense...

Lighters went up and puffs of smoke erupted from Bryant-Denny Stadium as soon as A’Shawn Robinson scooped up the fumble Ryan Anderson forced and returned it nine yards to the Tennessee 4-yard line.The...

There’s really only so much a defense can do when 12 yards separate its opponent from the end zone.That's the situation Alabama's defense faced late in the second quarter of the 27-14 win on Saturday.Arkansas...

ATHENS, Ga. — On Monday, Alabama wasn’t supposed to beat Georgia. After a 72 game streak, the Crimson Tide opened as an underdog to the Bulldogs.At halftime on Saturday, when Alabama led 24-3, the...

ATHENS, Ga. — Maybe a downpour was all No. 13 Alabama needed to figure out its game. When the sky opened up and the downpour came to Sanford Stadium, so did the Crimson Tide in a 38-10 win over No....

Madi Moore isn’t going to have it easy when she scrimmages against her teammates on the Alabama softball team.They will repay the favor done to them by pitchers like Jaclyn Traina, who led the team to...

Alabama’s offense sputtered early before finding some consistency in the 34-0 win over Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday. Four games into the season, the offense hasn’t quite found its identity.“I was...

Following Saturday’s 43-37 loss to Ole Miss, Alabama coach Nick Saban addressed what he liked and what he didn’t during his weekly Monday press conference.He liked the effort he saw from his players....

BIRMINGHAM — In its fourth appearance at Legion Field, the U.S. Women’s National Team gave the 35,753 fans in attendance a show in an 8-0 rout of Haiti.The crowd was a record for a USWNT match in the...

At first, the crowd was loud, the stadium shaking. After the opening kickoff and subsequent fumble by Alabama, the crowd quieted.The trend continued throughout the night as No. 2 Alabama toyed with a comeback...

The University of Alabama SGA launched its "It's On Us" campaign this week, bringing attention to the threat of sexual assault on college campuses. The Crimson White is proud to support this initiative,...

ARLINGTON, Texas — Give the ball to Derrick Henry and watch him run. All No. 20 Wisconsin could do was watch, as the junior running back worked his way to 147 yards rushing on 13 carries in No. 3 Alabama’s...

Somehow — between the demands of fall camp and football season, the demands of his position, perhaps the most demanding in the state — Nick Saban has time. Time to help, time to work with other coaches...

Alabama practiced indoors ahead of its season opener against Wisconsin this Saturday. NOTES: The quarterbacks were inconsistent during Wednesday's practice. Cooper Bateman threw two sharp passes to transfer...

Alabama worked outside for practice Wednesday afternoon in full pads. NOTES: Jake Coker led the quarterbacks, followed by Alec Morris in one line. David Cornwell, Cooper Bateman and Blake Barnett worked...

For over 120 years, The Crimson White has been the student newspaper of The University of Alabama. Over the years, thanks to hundreds of talented editors and staffers before me, we’ve brought you, the...

Alabama returned to Bryant-Denny stadium for its second fall preseason scrimmage Saturday afternoon. QUICK HITS:  Jake Coker led the quarterback line for the first part of the viewing period, but Alec...

The Alabama football team capped the first day of classes in the 2015-16 year with a practice outdoors. Quarterback Jake Coker returned to the field for practice, leading the line after missing the last...

The Alabama football team continued its fall camp this week. Take a look at practice notes from the Crimson Tide’s practices.Monday morning session, Aug. 17:Alabama practiced indoors for its first session...

The Alabama men’s basketball team's first road game will also be its first national broadcast of the season. The Crimson Tide will make its first ever appearance on the ESPN College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon...

The Alabama football team worked in its indoor facility on Tuesday afternoon. Quarterback Jake Coker returned, working on the sideline with trainers. Coker missed yesterday's practice session due to a...

Terrence Ferguson, a 5-star shooting guard ranked No. 3 in the high school class of 2016, has committed to the University of Alabama in a video on Rivals.com.#BuckleUp #RollTide @AlabamaMBB — Avery...

Alabama practiced indoors for its first session of a two-a-day this morning. Practice Notes: Alabama QB Jake Coker was not at practice today. RB Kenyan Drake stood to the side of Alabama's RB drills....

Alabama football hosted its first scrimmage of fall camp Saturday afternoon in Bryant-Denny Stadium. There were no stats provided from the closed scrimmage.Following the scrimmage, head coach Nick Saban...

HOOVER — The year has been a long one for Alabama running back 
Kenyan Drake.After ending his season with a leg injury at Ole Miss early October, Drake spent his offseason working on getting back to...

HOOVER — LSU’s 8-5 season was not up to standards.Head coach Les Miles said there were a number of factors involved in the year, including youth at quarterback and losing valuable juniors. Every year,...

HOOVER — While Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema made comments about the Razorbacks’ win over Texas in the AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl that went viral Wednesday at SEC Media Days, he kept his speech tamer...

HOOVER — Ole Miss was a different team without wide receiver Laquon Treadwell.Treadwell suffered a season-ending injury in the final minutes of Ole Miss’ 35-31 loss to Auburn. He broke his leg as he...

By Kelly Ward | Digital Managing EditorEvery year, the first day of class marks the end of fall camp for Alabama football. This year, it cuts fall camp about a week short due to the season starting the...

HOOVER — SEC Media Days had a different look this year. For the first time since 2002, Mike Slive did not open the event. Greg Sankey, the new conference commissioner, represents a new era in the SEC.He...

HOOVER — Last season, Texas A&M was far from the team that produced a Heisman-winning quarterback. The 2014 squad began 5-0 before losing three consecutively, including a 59-0 loss to Alabama.This year,...

HOOVER — The Mississippi State head coach, Dan Mullen, walked in wearing a suit, a tie and a pair of Yeezy Boost 350 shoes by Adidas on Tuesday at SEC Media Days.“I’ve got a little sock game going...

HOOVER — Florida cornerback Vernon Hargreaves III rarely gets beat. He’s not very talkative; he prefers to speak with his play, not unlike former Alabama wide receiver Amari Cooper.Lining up against...

The first night Stuart Bell and his wife Susan were in Tuscaloosa, they had a late dinner before deciding to walk around the campus. The two made their way to the Quad where they saw two or three groups...

Alabama soccer coach Wes Hart was hired in April after the team spent a month without a coach. In the meantime, he’s been away recruiting, moving his family and getting adjusted to life at Alabama. The...

About 10 minutes from downtown Oklahoma City is softball’s biggest stage. Every year, thousands flock to the area for the Women’s College World Series.Five years from now it will still draw in crowds...

BIRMINGHAM -- Welcome to Alabama.For one night only, the biggest sporting event in the state so famed for college football wasn’t the Iron Bowl. There was no ‘Roll Tide,’ or ‘War Eagle’ or even...

By Kelly Ward | Managing EditorIn recent years, the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships hasn’t had designated days for men’s and women’s events. That changes this year.With the exception of...

Sophomore Quanesha Burks didn’t know if she would be a jumper or a sprinter when she got to Alabama. In high school, she did both.She still does both, but only one – the long jump – has her as the...

Former Alabama professor and current Louisiana State University executive vice president and provost Stuart R. Bell has been recommended by UA Chancellor Robert Witt to succeed Judy Bonner as president...

Shelley Godwin has been named the new assistant coach for women's tennis, head coach Jenny Mainz announced Friday in a release.Godwin spent the last four years as Middle Tennessee State's women's tennis...

By Sean Landry | Contributing WriterAvery Johnson announced the addition of former AAU coach Scott Pospichal to his staff at Alabama via a UA Athletics release. Pospichal comes to the Crimson Tide with...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Of the eight teams that make it to the Women’s College World Series, only one ends its season with
a win.Even though Alabama softball’s 5-3 loss to LSU ended its season, the day...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Alabama softball faced an impossible challenge: win four games in two days. It won one game but couldn’t come back against LSU. Alabama had the bases loaded with one out in the top...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Chandler Dare might be the shortest player on Alabama’s roster. She’s listed at 5-foot-2, along with senior Danielle Richard. The sophomore outfielder might not be that tall.Dare...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Michigan got big hits. Alabama didn’t. Michigan gets to play Friday. Alabama plays on elimination Saturday.No. 6 Alabama softball (47-14) was shutout 5-0 to No. 6 Michigan (57-6) in...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The weather was more suited to Michigan than Alabama the last time the two softball teams faced off against each other.It was Feb. 20, and it was 37 degrees in Tuscaloosa.The Wolverines...

After some of the hubbub died down following No. 6 Alabama softball’s 5-3 come from behind win over Oklahoma to secure a spot in the Women’s College World Series, softball coach Patrick Murphy took...

Marisa Runyon was struggling.She didn’t have a hit in the Tuscaloosa Super Regional and the last time she came up to bat with the bases loaded, she struck out to end Alabama’s rally in Friday’s...

Everything was going right until, suddenly, it wasn’t.Alabama freshman right-hander Alexis Osorio (19-8) went five innings through the Oklahoma lineup without giving up a hit. Then, the Sooners got a...

Sooner or later it was bound to happen. Alabama and Oklahoma softball were bound to meet eventually. Fate in disguise as the NCAA selection committee made it happen sooner than it has in years past.On...

HOOVER — Eleven-seed Alabama baseball founded its offense with its season on the line in a 6-1 win over 6-seed Ole Miss to open the SEC Tournament.“It doesn’t take a baseball genius to figure out...

It was instinct for junior centerfielder Haylie McCleney to catch a fly ball in full stride in left field. It was smart for sophomore left fielder Chandler Dare to get out of the way.Plays like this are...

Freshman right-hander Alexis Osorio was almost perfect against Washington. Almost was good enough in No. 6 Alabama softball’s 9-0 win on Saturday in the NCAA Tuscaloosa Regional.Osorio (18-7, 1.66 ERA)...

No. 6 Alabama softball doesn’t have a problem with its scoreboard. No, the two home runs off it weren’t personal. The team’s getting a new one anyway.The two home runs were just Alabama hitters getting...

Danae Hays put on her jersey, just as she has for the last four years, to play in front of fans that might have been her own, in an alternate timeline. She joked to a teammate that she should go to the...

After scoring 31 runs in a three-game series with Auburn, No. 6 Alabama softball took a long time getting going in the 5-2 win over Troy.Alabama stranded the bases loaded in the bottom of the second, and...

For No. 7 Alabama softball, it’s all about peaking at the right time. Dominant hitting and shut-down pitching have surfaced throughout the season but rarely together. One has usually been able to carry...

While Alabama’s quarterback question looms, the Crimson Tide defense has homed in on one thing: the ball.There were seven turnovers between the Crimson and White teams.“A big emphasis this spring has...

Alabama won’t be able to replace outgoing receiver Amari Cooper, owner of nearly every school receiving record, but it might have found the top two candidates to try in Saturday’s A-Day spring scrimmage.Junior...

Not every midweek game can be a mercy-rule win for 
No. 7 Alabama softball, but a 2-0 win over North Carolina State is good enough for the Crimson Tide.“Obviously any time you can throw a shutout against...

While most in-season sports had conference games this weekend, No. 7 Alabama softball took a break. After nine straight weeks of play minus some weather-related cancellations, the Crimson Tide enjoyed...

After 34 days without a head coach, Alabama soccer has found one.Alabama Director of Athletics Bill Battle announced Wes Hart as the next soccer head coach Thursday morning. Hart served as an assistant...

Avery Johnson came into his first press conference with a bold outlook on a run-down basketball program. He talked about Final Fours and championships.“The whole idea is that we are about excellence,”...

Avery Johnson has seen the promised land for Alabama basketball. It's in Durham, North Carolina, he said, and in Indianapolis last week and at the very end of the college basketball season, when March...

When Avery Johnson was introduced as the new Alabama men’s basketball head coach Wednesday, several coaches from other sports were in attendance.Notably missing was Alabama’s soccer coach.Former Alabama...

Danielle Richard didn’t think she would get a homecoming trip. The senior is from Priceville, Alabama, which isn’t more than a two-hour drive from Tuscaloosa.Homecoming trips are usually reserved for...

If No. 6 Alabama softball needed confidence, it got some last week. Its offense struggled to keep up with Texas A&M in the final game of the home series but powered to 29 runs over a little more than 24...

Former NBA champion and NBA coach of the year Avery Johnson has signed on as Alabama's next men's basketball coach, athletic director Bill Battle announced Monday night. “I am very pleased to announce...

It wasn’t a matter of if Alabama women’s tennis was going to beat Auburn, just a matter of when. On Saturday, the Crimson Tide swept Auburn 4-0. “I thought we came out with a good energy today,...

Jonathan Taylor is no longer a student at The University of Alabama and is not eligible for re-admission, UA spokesperson Deborah Lane said in a statement Thursday.Taylor was dismissed from Alabama football...

Two days, 29 runs.In just over 24 hours, No. 6 Alabama softball put up 29 runs over eight innings in its midweek games. On Tuesday, Alabama scored 15 runs in one inning. The Crimson Tide had an eight-run...

Tuscaloosa Police released a statement Wednesday morning that said former Alabama football player Jonathan Taylor’s accuser in a domestic violence charge on Saturday has recanted her allegations.The...

First came the rain, then the hail. Then after nearly and hour-and-a half delay, No. 5 Alabama softball hit into a triple play. Then, in the third inning, Alabama’s offense showed up in the 17-0 mercy-rule...

Late Tuesday morning, Alabama running back Tyren Jones was arrested on one charge of second-degree possession of marijuana. Tuesday afternoon, Alabama coach Nick Saban dismissed him from the team.“Tyren...

A series win over No. 23 Texas A&M wasn’t enough to lessen the sting of No. 5 Alabama softball’s 11-5 loss on Sunday.The Crimson Tide battled back, tying the game and coming within a run before the...

Early Saturday morning, senior Alabama defensive back Geno Smith was arrested on charges of driving under the influence. Smith's bond was set at $1,000. It is his second arrest on that charge at Alabama....