After a controversial call foiled Alabama the last time out, the Crimson Tide men’s basketball team will take the court Thursday night for a home matchup against the Arkansas Razorbacks. “The refs...

I rolled over in bed in my Fort Lauderdale, Fla., hotel on Jan. 6, just a day before the BCS National Championship Game, and checked my phone to find out some of the best news I’d heard in a long time....

It didn’t take much searching to find the matchup everyone was talking about ahead of Alabama’s national championship game clash with Notre Dame. How would the Crimson Tide’s offensive line fare...

Nick Saban stood on the podium at midfield of Sun Life Stadium after winning his fourth BCS National Championship game, his third as coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. ESPN’s John Saunders had finished...

The formula is simple, but at times this season has seemed too complicated for Alabama. It doomed the Crimson Tide during the team’s only regular season loss against Texas A&M. After rallying from a...

The last time Alabama and Georgia faced each other; there was comparable hype to their SEC Championship Game meeting this Saturday. But Alabama delivered one of the first signature beat downs of the Nick...

Lake Lurleen State Park has been chosen as the site of a national hovercraft rally, which will include a race between Alabama and Auburn. The race will be held on Saturday, March 16 and open to the public...

The Crimson White spoke with ESPN.com SEC blogger Edward Aschoff to get his thoughts on the upcoming SEC Championship Game between Alabama and Georgia. Crimson White: Are Alabama and Georgia mirror images...

Even on Monday morning, it’s still weird to see Notre Dame at No. 1 in the BCS standings. The Fighting Irish have, in my lifetime at least, always been that team with a lot of history and tradition,...

There are close games, and there are blowouts. Then, there’s the 2012 Iron Bowl. The No. 2 Crimson Tide, playing with new life after being thrusted back into the national championship picture, throttled...

Two rings are the difference in Alabama’s two championships under head coach Nick Saban. The Crimson Tide won three in 2009, but just one in 2011. Southeastern Conference division and league titles...

As an out-of-state recruit, running back Eddie Lacy wasn’t quite sure what to expect from the Iron Bowl rivalry. It only took one year to fix that. It also took help from in-state players like safety...

It’s not exactly been a dream season for the Western Carolina Catamounts this year. Under first-year head coach Mark Speir, the team has a 1-9 record overall with an 0-8 record in SEC play. Their only...

There was a team in Bryant-Denny Stadium that jumped out to a big, early lead, overcame a sluggish start to the second half, and ultimately came away with a win. Only Saturday, it wasn’t Alabama. The...

Head coach Nick Saban has a simple 24-hour rule for his players after games. They get 24 hours to either celebrate a victory or sulk in a defeat before moving on to the next week’s opponent. After Alabama’s...

LSU’s 2012 season hasn’t quite gone according to the plan that many pundits scripted in the preseason. The Tigers were picked to win the SEC West and SEC Championship, as well as challenge USC or Oregon...

Lonnie Strickland teaches a large, discussion-based business class at Alabama where participation is a major part of the grade. In the past, he would lead discussions at his podium and make notes on a...

Age was supposed to be Alabama’s weakness heading into the 2012 season. Instead, it turned out to be one of its strengths. The Crimson Tide lost 10 of its 22 starters from last season, three of whom...

The rivalry between The University of Alabama and Auburn University may add another component this spring in the form of a hovercraft race. Hisham Ali, a UA senior majoring in aerospace engineering, recently...

The gap between Alabama and Tennessee seems to grow wider every year. Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley is in his third year at the helm of the Volunteers and has collected a 14-17 record so far, including...

Alabama players and coaches got a welcomed weekend off from football this week with fall break. Many members of the team went home to see their families while some stayed in Tuscaloosa. “It’s always...

C.J. Mosley was a quiet weapon on the Alabama defense for his first two years at school. While he opened eyes with big plays, like two interceptions in 2010, his freshman year and one in the BCS National...

Alabama used another strong performance from its defense and a rejuvenated Eddie Lacy to defeat the Florida Atlantic Owls 40-7 in Bryant-Denny Stadium Saturday. It was Alabama’s fourth win of the season...

It’s week two all over again, in a way. Alabama is coming off a blowout, away game win against a team some predicted to be in the top 10 before the season began. Now it has a lesser opponent - a cupcake,...

Printing at The University of Alabama is taking a step into another dimension - literally. Construction has started in Hardaway Hall on a 3-D printing lab that will allow students across multiple areas...

Football analyst Chris Brown published an article on smartfootball.com last Tuesday about Alabama head coach Nick Saban and his defensive backs - specifically, that they aren’t taught to backpedal. ...

Alabama’s 52-0 win over the Arkansas Razorbacks won’t shock many people, a byproduct of the machine head coach Nick Saban has built. What was supposed to be a top-ten matchup before the season started,...

Alabama junior running back Jalston Fowler will likely miss the remainder of the 2012 season due to a knee injury, head coach Nick Saban told reporters Monday. Fowler injured his knee during Saturday’s...

It didn’t feel like a 35-0 victory as the Million Dollar Band played its victory song and the Alabama players and coaches headed off the field. The Crimson Tide won its home opener in shutout fashion,...

Jesse Williams has two rules when he meets with the local media after practice: 1) Don’t ask about his tattoos. 2) Don’t ask about Australia. He’s heard the questions more times than he can count,...

New Alabama offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier won’t change much from Alabama’s methodical, wear-you-down attack, but that doesn’t mean things will be exactly the same as they were under Jim McElwain....

Alabama soccer enjoyed a successful 2011 season, but fifth-year head coach Todd Bramble is ready to build on that success in 2012. A year removed from its first NCAA tournament appearance and second-round...

Alabama held its second scrimmage of the fall in rainy conditions on Saturday in Bryant-Denny Stadium, taking a brief break to let some lightning pass, but otherwise getting a full workload in. Head Coach...

The University of Alabama athletic department reported 27 secondary NCAA violations since July 4, 2011, according to a document released on the school's website. The list, released Tuesday, included six...

  Alabama held its first scrimmage of the fall on Saturday, and other than a few nicks and bruises, everything went according to plan. Head coach Nick Saban got his first look at 2012’s Crimson Tide...

Head coach Nick Saban will get his first look the 2012 Crimson Tide in a game situation when Alabama holds a scrimmage inside Bryant-Denny Stadium on Saturday. The scrimmage, which is closed to reporters...

  Alabama practiced in full pads for the second day in a row in the Wednesday morning, Tuscaloosa heat. It was the first of two practices for the day as the Tide prepares for its first scrimmage of the...

A familiar voice filled the warm, muggy air on Friday morning in Tuscaloosa, one that hadn’t been heard since the end of spring. Scott Cochran, Alabama’s strength and conditioning coach, barked at...

While football dominates the headlines this time of year, the Alabama basketball team is also going through summer training and getting in shape for the 2012-13 season, where it will try to improve on...

The debate has raged on ever since the SEC announced it was adding Missouri and Texas A&M to complete a 14-team league: how do you re-organize the conference schedule? Do you take away one of the rotational,...

On Monday, the NCAA announced significant penalties levied against the Penn State football program in response to a report released by former FBI director Louis Freeh. The report found that members of...

Nick Saban stole the show at SEC Media Days, entertaining the largest audience of media members outside of SEC Commissioner Mike Slive and using his entire allotted 40 minutes to discuss a wide range of...

HOOVER, Ala.- Les Miles stepped to the podium at SEC Media Days 15 minutes late, but the media contingent waited patiently for the LSU coach who always puts on a show at the league’s unofficial kickoff...

HOOVER, Ala. - Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen had gotten essentially the same question three times during his session at SEC Media Days. “Coach, what’s it like competing in a tough division...

Alabama football has enjoyed recent success against in-state rival Auburn, winning three of the last four games between the two teams. But the Crimson Tide lost a battle off the field to the Tigers when...

James Franklin will do whatever it takes to change people’s opinions about Vanderbilt football, even if that means blowing up balloons at child’s birthday party. The second-year head coach took over...

As I sat in a booth at Buffalo Wild Wings, watching Spain lift the 2012 European Championship trophy, an all-too-familiar feeling washed over me. No matter how excited I or other U.S. soccer fans get about...

Sarah Patterson couldn’t have imagined this when she had to lobby for funds from then-athletic director Paul “Bear” Bryant for an exercise mat when she first started 34 years ago. Along with the...

Football is obviously king at Alabama, but Crimson Tide athletics as a whole enjoyed its most successful year ever, and many smaller sports had seasons filled with spectacular moments of their own. Because...

Alabama continued building its already strong class of 2013, adding two new commitments just before the weekend. Cornerback Maurice Smith and quarterback Parker McLeod committed to the Crimson Tide, according...

Alabama wasn’t going to let Oklahoma ace Keilani Ricketts get in the way of its first national championship. It wasn’t going to let the rain do so, either. After a three-hour rain delay, and another...

It looked, for a moment, like the Alabama men’s golf team would win the University’s fourth national championship of 2012 and the first in program history. But a strange twist of fate on the 18th hole...

Just minutes after senior Brooke Pancake sunk her four-foot putt that won the Alabama women’s golf team a national championship, some of the golfers could be overheard talking about how excited they...

While many of the Alabama football players are enjoying a few weeks off after final exams before getting ready for the upcoming season, head coach Nick Saban and his staff have been hot on the recruiting...

Alabama used another strong pitching performance from right-handed ace Jackie Traina, as well as a three-run fifth inning to beat the Michigan Wolverines 4-1 in front of 2,475 fans at Rhoads Stadium, putting...

Jackie Traina pitched seven shutout innings for Alabama, and the Crimson Tide beat South Alabama 6-0, advancing to its eight straight Super Regionals appearance. With Michigan winning the Louisville Regional,...

Jackie Traina returned to the circle to pitch for Alabama after eight days off and didn’t miss a beat, allowing just two hits and striking out ten as Alabama beat South Alabama 5-2 in the NCAA Softball...

Alabama softball coach Patrick Murphy pulled senior Jazlyn Lunceford aside during an at-bat during the third inning of the SEC Softball Tournament. He told her, "Look at the wind, look at the flagpole,...

Alabama gymnastics senior Ashley Priess will return for a fifth year of competition, the team announced on Tuesday. Priess did not compete during the 2011 season, sitting out after surgery on both of her...

DULUTH, Ga. - The Alabama gymnastics team finished up its last practice before the NCAA Championships being tomorrow. The Tide had 15 minutes on each event to warm up. “I thought we had a good warmup,”...

Just one day removed from playing a major role in Alabama gymnastics’ sixth national championship, senior Geralen Stack-Eaton ended her incredible run as an Alabama gymnast by winning the individual...

  DULUTH, Ga. - Once just wasn’t enough. The No. 4-seed Alabama gymnastics team won its sixth national championship on Saturday and second in two years – all under head coach Sarah Patterson. The...

DULUTH, Ga. - It was supposed to be a disadvantage for the No. 4 Alabama gymnastic team to start on the balance beam on the first night of the NCAA Championships. The beam was typically the toughest event...

DULUTH, Ga. - The Alabama gymnastics team finished up its last practice before the NCAA Championships begin Friday. The Crimson Tide had 15 minutes on each event to warm up. “I thought we had a good...

If you were in Tuscaloosa on Saturday, you probably attended, or at least heard about, A-Day — Alabama’s annual spring game, essentially a glorified scrimmage. The team (and fans) gets ready for the...

What’s that you say? March Madness is over? You have nothing to do until Alabama and Michigan kick off in Dallas in September? Well, never fear, because I have a solution for all you sports fans who...

The Alabama Crimson Tide took to the field for its second scrimmage of spring practice on Friday, the last time it will practice in Bryant-Denny Stadium before April 14’s A-Day game. “I would say...