By the time the Alabama baseball team is finished with their NCAA Regional this weekend, it will be very familiar with Tallahassee, Florida. The Crimson Tide will return to the home grounds of the Florida...

Alabama’s comeback 6-5 victory over the Nebraska Cornhuskers Thursday night belonged to the team’s freshmen. Sydney Littlejohn threw eight innings of scoreless relief, Marisa Runyon hit a bottom-of-the-seventh...

Sloppy defense and a dormant offense doomed Alabama’s SEC Baseball Championship hopes from the 1st inning Tuesday afternoon, when the Crimson Tide dropped their single-elimination first round game to...

  When the NCAA Tuscaloosa Softball Regional was announced, the pre-game narratives were all about quality pitching. Alabama sported SEC Pitcher of the Year Jaclyn Traina, while the Crimson Tide’s...

The No. 5 Alabama softball team had been threatening to send the nearly 2000 fans at Rhoads Stadium for the NCAA Tuscaloosa Regional home early for most of the night. Alabama led SIU-Edwardsville 9-0...

Jaclyn Traina’s pitching talents are almost unheard of. Not many experienced pitchers can win a softball team a national championship. Traina, now a senior, did so as a sophomore. In 2012, she went...

In each of its three games last week, the No. 6 Alabama softball team attracted crowds in the thousands. Even when Alabama suffered a disappointing 6-2 loss last Wednesday to Auburn at Lagoon Park in...

Like so many meets this season, Saturday night’s NCAA Gymnastics Championship came down to the final rotation. Unlike so many meets this season, Alabama’s hopes for its seventh national title came...

BIRMINGHAM--Alabama senior gymnast Kim Jacob’s floor exercise soundtrack starts with “Sweet Home Alabama.” Friday night in the BJCC Arena, that was more appropriate than any might have guessed,...

The Alabama softball team didn’t have Auburn on its 2014 schedule, originally. The rivals weren’t supposed to meet due to the rotating SEC schedule. So when Alabama and Auburn weren’t slated to...

Fact: The NHL playoffs are the best in North American professional sports. Baseball’s system is all messed up with the new wild card play-in. The NBA, as inconsistent as it is, leaves too much room for...

My dad watched Henry Aaron’s 715th home run on television in a fifth-floor common room in Paty Hall that may or may not still exist. When he recalls that night, he says the room erupted after the ball...

Alabama softball coach Patrick Murphy doesn’t like drama. “Only on TV,” he said. He got drama in the 4-3 win over UAB on Wednesday night. The No. 2 Crimson Tide had a 4-2 lead in the top of the...

As her career at Alabama winds down, senior infielder Kaila Hunt has a great deal of success to look back on, but it’s not the legacy she wants. Last year, she was named an NFCA second team All-American...

Former Alabama safety Vinnie Sunseri was a little nervous when he woke up before Alabama’s second pro day. “I felt like I was going into my first football game since Oct. 19,” Sunseri said. “No...

Some of you might not have noticed, but football is a very popular game at The University of Alabama. I don’t have numbers to prove this, but I suspect the game of football is probably more popular than...

No. 4 Alabama went up against No. 11 South Alabama and its pitcher Farish Beard, who owns the lowest ERA in the country, and came out on top 3-0. Freshman right-hander Sydney Littlejohn (7-0, 1.30 ERA)...

Three runs, that’s all that No. 5/7 Alabama softball gave up when LSU came into town. “That’s the first thing I said was, ‘One run a game, there’s no way that we should lose any of those three...

The last time Alabama’s senior gymnasts stood on the floor of the BJCC Arena in Birmingham, they were crowned the Southeastern Conference champions. That was back in 2011. Their names are familiar to...

The Alabama swimming and diving program has long awaited the upcoming national championships. The meets come at the end of a six-month season, but Alabama will be able compete at a level they haven’t...

When junior Jadyn Spencer is in the lineup, the only question is where she’s playing. She’s started at right field, first base and designated player. In high school, she pitched. “I don’t know...

Perfection is becoming a theme with Alabama’s gymnastics team. The Crimson Tide has seen two perfect scores in its final two weeks of the season. Senior Diandra Milliner was faultless on vault against...

Perfection is a rare concept in sports, but five Alabama seniors have the chance to keep several perfect streaks intact when the gymnastics team faces No. 11 Auburn on Friday. The seniors will look to...

When the Alabama men’s basketball team travels to Atlanta, Ga., to compete in the SEC Tournament on Thursday, it and coach Anthony Grant will have one objective: upsets. As the No. 10 seed, Alabama will...

It came down to the final out in the top of the seventh inning of Sunday’s game, but the No. 11 Alabama softball team came away with the series sweep over South Carolina in the opening weekend of SEC...

The recently resurgent Alabama swimming and diving program will look to add to its national championship roster when five athletes compete at the NCAA Zone B Diving Championships this week. Seven swimmers...

The veterans started the game, but the rookies finished it. The No. 11 Alabama softball team handed South Carolina a 10-5 loss on Saturday to take a 2-0 lead in the series with the help of its freshman....

The No. 11 Alabama softball team watched its share of chances to end the game early come to nothing. In the bottom of the sixth, senior infielder Kaila Hunt hit a three-run home run with runners at first...

Before the softball season started, coach Patrick Murphy laid out what he saw from his pitchers in the fall season. In 2013, junior Leslie Jury finished the season 18-7 with a 2.56 ERA. She started in...

Heading into the last day of the SEC Tournament, the Alabama men’s swimming team sat in sixth place, a decent position for the team that finished 10th last year, but short of the team’s goals for the...

For the second home contest in a row, Levi Randolph powered the Alabama men’s basketball team to victory, leading the Crimson Tide to a 73-57 win over the Auburn Tigers. The junior guard scored 24 points...

When you’re a sports fan, the games you follow seem to have this uncanny ability to echo your personal growth. Just as you hit transitional times in your life, so do the teams, players and sports you...

When the Alabama men’s basketball team travels to Oxford, Miss., on Wednesday, it will be looking to break one of the more ignominious streaks in team history. The Crimson Tide is winless away from...

The Alabama softball team that showed up to play UAB was a different team than the one that lost to McNeese State on Sunday. No. 10/11 Alabama beat the Blazers 5-0 in Birmingham Tuesday to advance to...

It ended with a walk-off but not a hit. Molly Fichtner stepped up to the plate with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh inning. The ball she hit was catchable. The University of...

After handing Virginia Tech a crushing 8-0 loss in five innings, Alabama struggled for five innings against University of Central Florida before pulling out a 8-3 win. It took some shifty base running...

Thirty-four years later, almost to the day, and there will be no repeat of the “Miracle on Ice,” after the host Russians fell 3-1 to underdog Finland. There never would have been, really, with a U.S...

Kristian Gkolomeev stands on a starting block in the Alabama Aquatics Center while associate head coach Jonty Skinner looks on. When the Greek Olympian launches himself into the Don Gambril Olympic...

Her story doesn’t start with what people thought was a career-ending injury at 17. It doesn’t start with a dislocated shoulder the summer before Sochi. Those are only pieces of her story. Alana Nichols...

For junior Chaunsey Bell, softball is a family affair. Her two older sisters played, and when she was younger, she wanted to follow in their footsteps. She started playing when she was 5 years old and...

Like most sports addicts, I’m watching the Olympic Games while I’m supposed to be working. Infamously, these Sochi games are being held in a country where it is illegal for people to be openly gay....

The Alabama men’s basketball team will be seeking the shelter of home when it takes on an impressive Ole Miss team Tuesday night. While Tuscaloosa faces the prospect of more winter weather and class...

The Alabama men’s basketball team has had a rough couple of weeks. Coach Anthony Grant said the Crimson Tide’s recent form has been distressing, but the program is moving forward competitively....

The Alabama swimming and diving team will travel to Athens, Ga., to take on the University of Georgia in the final meet of the regular season. When the Crimson Tide gets to the Gabrielsen Natatorium it...

The Alabama women’s basketball team will be looking to continue its form coming out of a weekend of upsets. The Crimson Tide beat No.6 Kentucky at the buzzer in Lexington, Ky., last Thursday and returned...

When the Alabama men’s tennis team travels to Texas to conclude its season-opening road trip, it will be looking to build momentum for what coach George Husack hopes will be an exciting season. The...

Alabama softball coach Patrick Murphy doesn’t have to scramble to fill the infield. He doesn’t suffer from a lack of athletes. At first base, junior Jadyn Spencer and sophomore Leona Lafaele are viable...

The final home meet for Alabama swimming and diving was nearly the perfect send-off for Alabama’s seniors. The Alabama men won 15 of their 16 events, defeating Emory 192-62. On the women’s side, Alabama...

With the SEC Swimming and Diving Championship growing ever nearer, Alabama coach Dennis Pursley has turned his attention firmly toward championships, with the Alabama swim team set to begin its final tuneups...

Alabama softball coach Patrick Murphy sits behind his desk, admiring the new batting gloves the team will have this season. Outside, it’s windy and chilly, but it hasn’t kept the team from practice....

When the Alabama basketball team hosts Mississippi State in Coleman Coliseum Wednesday, it will be looking to defend a conference-high 13-game SEC home-court winning streak. The Crimson Tide has not lost...

Kristian Gkolomeev traveled 50 hours, roughly 5,700 miles in the air, arrived in Tuscaloosa from Athens, Greece on Wednesday morning, and swam 50 yards in 20.48 seconds on Saturday afternoon – good...

NEW ORLEANS—It was not the end to the BCS era that Alabama wanted. The two-time defending national champion Crimson Tide was stunned in the Allstate Sugar Bowl by a 45-31 loss to Oklahoma. If Alabama...

NEW ORLEANS — Kirby Smart is no stranger to the Sugar Bowl. This is his fifth. He’s no stranger to pressure either. He’s been Alabama’s defensive coordinator since 2008, and in that time has been...

NEW ORLEANS — The Bedlam Rivalry lived up to its name on Dec. 7 when No. 11 Oklahoma stole then No. 6 Oklahoma State’s chance at a Big 12 Championship and a BCS bid with a 33-24 win. The Sooners...

There will soon be a new team pursuing championships on campus: The University of Alabama shooting team. Representatives of the National Wild Turkey Federation gathered Tuesday morning at Denny Chimes...

“It’s only a game,” people always say. “Why should people care so much?” I don’t know if anyone could ever really answer that. Who knows why people care so much – too much, even – about...

The schedule has been decided, the bid has been drawn, and the stage has been set for the Alabama volleyball team. Sunday night, the team received a bid to the NCAA Tournament. It isn’t the first time...

As the final matches of the season draw near, the Alabama volleyball team is preparing to spend Thanksgiving together in Tuscaloosa between matchups against Mississippi State and LSU. “I think we’re...

The Alabama volleyball team swept both matches over the weekend to improve to 23-8 on the season and 10-6 in the SEC. After coming back in the first two sets against Ole Miss, Alabama swept the Rebels...

The Alabama volleyball team will celebrate two of its seniors at the final home match of the season. Kelsey Melito and Andrea McQuaid will put on their white home jerseys for the last time Sunday afternoon...

I haven’t spoken to my father – an Alabama alumnus and lifelong fan – since Alabama’s relatively narrow victory over the Mississippi State Bulldogs. I haven’t needed to speak to my father because...

It’s difficult enough to play a ranked team at home, but it’s a completely different story to play on its court. The Alabama volleyball team has done it before and is 7-2 on the road. The only two...

It’s basketball season. A time for some of sports’ greatest traditions – the Cameron Crazies at Duke, St. John’s ever-flapping hawk mascot, Kansas’ “Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk” and Taylor University’s...

The weekend is full of potential for the Alabama volleyball team. The Tideis poised to make 2013 a 20-win season, the seventh since 1989. All the team needs is one more win. This weekend, Alabama also...

When Alabama swimming and diving coach Dennis Pursley sits in his office, memories of his long and illustrious coaching career surround him. There’s the flag from the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, where...

The Alabama volleyball team didn’t start out looking like a team that had won four of its last five matches. It didn’t start out looking like the team that handed Georgia its first home loss, either....

The Alabama volleyball team put up 10 blocks against Mississippi State Friday night, but it wasn’t enough, sophomore libero Kryssi Daniels said. “Blocking is something that we definitely need to...

The University of Alabama cross-country teams are ready to be competitive and travel to Gainesville, Fla., to compete in the SEC Championships Friday. The men’s team had several competitive finishes...

California isn’t just Hollywood, beaches and In-N-Out Burger. California is a volleyball state, Alabama coach Ed Allen said. “[In] California, it’s a lifestyle sport,” he said. “People go to...

Tennessee called Alabama “the Red Team” going into Saturday afternoon’s game. The Crimson Tide took a different approach to the nickname in its 45-10 win over the Volunteers. “We just took it...