After jumping out to the unusual lead of 19-3 at halftime, No. 5 Alabama was under pressure in the fourth quarter, leading No. 1 Mississippi State by only six points while Bulldogs quarterback Dak Prescott...

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 2013-2014 season was a disappointing one for the Alabama men’s basketball team and coach Anthony Grant. The Crimson Tide finished 13-19, including a 5-10 skid to end the season and a 5-13 record...

With six seconds to play in Alabama’s preseason exhibition against Montevallo, Levi Randolph leapt high above the basket to slam home an alley-oop pass from Justin Coleman, the exclamation point on...

BATON ROUGE, La. – When it was needed most, No. 5 Alabama’s high-octane offense and hotshot new kicker came through, lifting Alabama to a comeback overtime 20-13 victory over No. 16 LSU. Down three...

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,”...

The last time Alabama played in LSU’s famed Tiger Stadium in 2012, the roar of the crowd was constant for almost all 60 minutes. Even at halftime, the noise never let up, transitioning from boos for...

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 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...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - No. 4 Alabama didn’t exorcise all of its road demons in Saturday night’s 34-20 win over Tennessee, but it did enough to overcome the orange-clad Volunteers and the more than 102,000...

The last time Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin walked a sideline in Knoxville, Tennessee, he wore the UT orange so emblematic of Alabama’s 
second rivalry. In 2009, at only 33 years old, Kiffin...

The Alabama offense found itself in the end zone many times on Saturday, each time in a new way. Saturday’s performance showcased the creativity of new offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin, perhaps exhibited...

Before Saturday’s 59-0 mauling of Texas A&M, Blake Sims ran down his sideline, helmet on, beating himself on the chest. Kickoff was a half hour away, but the Crimson Tide’s quarterback said he already...

“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...

Minutes after the upset loss to the Ole Miss Rebels, the leaders of the Alabama football team stood in a dimly lit clearing outside the visitor’s locker room of Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi....

Attorney Don Jackson has filed a Title IX complaint against the University of Alabama on behalf of his client, former Alabama women’s basketball player Daisha Simmons. “Information has come to my attention...

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...

Late in the game, with the clock winding down, after the penalties, turnovers, missed field goals and blown coverages had taken their toll, with the No. 3 Crimson Tide down 23-17 and the Ole Miss student...

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,...

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...

With four minutes left in the first quarter, quarterback Blake Sims found Amari Cooper in yards of space, with the closest Florida defensive back so far away, he might as well have been on the sideline. 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...

No. 3 Alabama’s quarterback battle may not be over, according to coach Nick Saban, but for at least one game, senior Blake Sims was unquestionably on top.Sims went 12-17 passing for 168 yards and two...

Three games into the season, Alabama’s defense has two distinct identities: one dominant, the 
other inconsistent. In Alabama’s 52-12 victory over Southern Mississippi, the Crimson Tide defense held...

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...

By the time the lightning came and the game was called, the work had already been done. The Alabama football team shutout the Florida Atlantic Owls, winning 41-0 and recording over 600 yards of total...

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...

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...

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...

For all of the talk surrounding the new quarterbacks and Lane Kiffin’s new offense, No. 2 Alabama returned to a familiar formula to beat the West Virginia Mountaineers 33-23 Saturday night in the Georgia...

Alabama returns to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta to take on the West Virginia Mountaineers in the season opener Saturday. The Crimson White caught up with Connor Murray, sports editor of The Daily Athaeneum...

The Alabama football team remained at the Indoor Practice Facility as it prepared for its season opener against West Virginia this Saturday. The quarterbacks executed drills in the order listed on the...

Alabama’s secondary was beaten several times in Alabama’s 33-23 win over West Virginia Saturday night. The unit blew several coverages and conceded major gains on more than one occasion, endangering...

For eight months, the Alabama football team has been forced to live with the memories of the back-to-back losses that ended its 2013 season. The now-infamous missed field goal return for a touchdown –...

In a sport dominated by variable tactics and numerical formations, the Crimson Tide soccer team won’t define itself with one particular playing philosophy. Instead, the team will “take what the opponent...

By Kelly Ward | Sports Editor The University of Alabama track and field team finished its 2014 campaign in June after capturing two individual national titles. The men’s team finished 15th nationally...

This year’s inaugural Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah 5k had a simple purpose: to raise awareness and funds for cystic fibrosis research and the Thomas Plott Foundation. Alabama football director of strength and...

In a summer where most positions are in question, there’s one that’s already been filled: Adam Griffith at place kicker. “Specialists were really good today,” head coach Nick Saban said after Saturday’s...

In an Iron Bowl capped with the instantly famous — and for Alabama fans, infamous — 100-yard missed field goal return, it’s easy to forget quarterback AJ McCarron connecting with wide receiver Amari...

Washing headstones of American soldiers from World War II wasn’t on the original itinerary when Alabama softball made the trip to the Netherlands in early August. The original plan was to play the Dutch...

On September 14, 2013, at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas, with Alabama leading Texas A&M 21-14 with 8 minutes and 48 seconds to go in the second quarter, quarterback Johnny Manziel dropped back and...

Under the watchful eye of position coach Lance Thompson in practice, the outside linebackers worked against the tight ends, attacking a stand-in ?quarterback. For the most part, the linebackers, led by...

J ake Coker, the much-anticipated transfer from Florida State, stands at 6 feet 5 inches, 250 pounds. Wearing No. 14, Coker resembles a larger, stronger edition of AJ McCarron, the three-time national...

The outcome of the 2014 football season isn’t dependent on the Alabama football team’s skill level. It has the talent: a unanimous No. 1 2014 recruiting class, 13 returning starters and 51 returning...

University of Alabama gymnastics coach Dana Duckworth hired former Ohio State assistant Bill Lorenz to fill the vacancy left by her own promotion, UA Athletics announced Friday. “We are extremely...

University of Alabama track and field athlete Hayden Reed may have two more years of NCAA eligibility, but the redshirt sophomore has already accomplished more than most. After winning the discus championship...

This weekend, during all the pomp and circumstance of inducting two of the greatest pitchers of all time into the Baseball Hall of Fame, former New York Mets Pitcher and Hall-of-Famer Tom Seaver unleashed...

The golf course at The Country Club of Mobile, designed in 1928 by perhaps the most prolific golf architect of them all – Donald Ross, of Pinehurst No. 2 fame – has seen its share of  world-class...

In the midst of a hectic appearance on the final day of SEC Media Days, Alabama football coach Nick Saban took time to update the media on the status of recent arrestees Kenyan Drake and Jarran Reed....

For months, the buzz around Florida State transfer quarterback Jacob Coker has been building. Coker’s former coach and current Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher told TideSports.com in June that Coker...

New Alabama gymnastics coach Dana Duckworth doesn’t have a championship ring from the 2011 season, despite serving as the assistant coach during the team’s 5th ?championship season. Instead of a ring,...

Alabama defensive lineman and junior college transfer Jarran Reed was arrested Sunday morning and charged with DUI, according to the Tuscaloosa County Sherriff’s Department. Reed was held in the Tuscaloosa...

For the first time in nearly four decades, Sarah Patterson is not the coach of the University of Alabama gymnastics team.Facing dual knee replacement surgeries, the 36-year coach stepped down Tuesday,...

In his customary ‘state of the Conference’ address, SEC Commissioner Mike Slive discussed several upcoming changes to the Southeastern Conference and voiced his support for reform to the NCAA. “As...

The summer holidays have passed, the weather in the South has turned oppressively hot, the summer doldrums have truly begun and the return of college football seems devastatingly far away. Fortunately...

In the midst of a hectic appearance on the final day of SEC Media Days, Alabama football coach Nick Saban took time to update the media on the status of recent arrestees Kenyan Drake and Jarran Reed. Drake,...

After fighting his way through crowds of media and autograph-seeking fans, meeting a man who traveled from Australia to a mall in Hoover, Alabama, just for the occasion and after his customary appearance...

The baseball season is half-over. The All-Star break is rapidly approaching and with it the annual showcase of extraordinary baseball talent that used to be all about seeing the best baseball players...

Eight spring championships powered Alabama up the two all-sport collegiate rankings designed to determine the best all-around athletic programs in the country: the Learfield Sports Directors Cup and the...

The phrase “end of an era” is frequently tossed around in the sports world. People used the phrase, probably inaccurately, when the Miami Heat fell to the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals this year....

Alabama outfielder Haylie McCleney and former pitcher Jaclyn Traina were named to the USA Softball National Team that will represent the U.S. in several competitions over the summer, according to a UA...

Former Alabama right-handed ?pitcher Spencer Turnbull isn’t typical. The Detroit Tigers draftee, like most professional athletes, stands out: the 21-year-old Alabama native finished the 2014 season at...

By now you probably know about the Miami Heat losing – and not just losing, but losing spectacularly – to the San Antonio Spurs, 4-1 in the NBA Finals. Undoubtedly, some of you are using this championship...