I wasn’t in Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011. My brother was, somewhere in one of the new dorms (Riverside West, I think?), so I remember the anxiety of watching what happened that day from far away. I remember...
Reflecting on a nation's mourning after 9/11, Dr. Karl Paulnack of the Boston Conservatory of music wrote, "Music is a basic need of human survival. Music is one of the ways we make sense of our lives,...
After two seasons, point guard Justin Coleman's career at Alabama is ending in transfer, he tweeted Wednesday.First off I wanna thank God, the University of Alabama, fans and coaches. But Coach Johnson...
Alabama athletic director Bill Battle issued a statement in the wake of former Alabama player Kevin Turner's death after a long battle with ALS on Thursday. "The Crimson Tide family lost a true warrior...
When Alabama basketball’s senior captain, Retin Obasohan, awoke to news of terrorist attacks in his native Belgium, he couldn’t help but start visualizing. Here was the terminal at Brussels International...
The Crimson White recently published a feature about Lillian Roth, a candidate for SGA president, both in print and online, as part of our traditional coverage of the SGA executive races. This depiction...
A responsible and free press is instrumental in the preservation of a democracy. The freedom of the press is enshrined in the first amendment because the framers knew without a watchdog press, a ‘Fourth...
SGA President Elliot Spillers will introduce a constitutional amendment to revise the block seating process at tonight's senate meeting.The bill, obtained by The Crimson White, would codify a 'board of...
Just two months after its initial presentation of demands, the We Are Done movement, with the University of Alabama administration, is on the verge of opening the Intercultural Diversity Center, a student-staffed...
The University of Alabama basketball team travels to take on South Carolina today. Coach Avery Johnson, forward Shannon Hale and guard Arthur Edwards spoke to the media before the game.NOTES:Alabama spent...
Championship seasons are fragile. They are balanced on the response to a dozen pivotal moments – a football that bounces off a receiver’s helmet here, a game-saving drive there.The 2015 national champion...
GLENDALE, Ariz. – There were no heroes in The University of Alabama’s 45-40 win over Clemson in the College Football Playoff National Championship game. There was no one player to crown in history...
Cyrus Jones has heard you screaming at him to turn his head in pass coverage. He has heard the anguished cries of Alabama fans after yet another pass interference flag flies. He knows what some of you...
Clemson's offense goes fast. By adjusted pace, it ranks ninth in the nation. It rarely substitutes, frequently quick-snaps and almost never huddles. It aims to go faster than you can imagine, and it will...
It started innocently enough. Dabo Swinney, head coach of a Clemson roster flush with NFL prospects, was asked about how his team has dealt with the specter of early declarations and draft evaluations,...
You may not remember this, but Tom Herman's Ohio State offense tore apart Kirby Smart's Alabama defense about a year ago. The Buckeyes went for 256 yards through the air, 281 on the ground, and went 10-18...
The University of Alabama basketball team has already exceeded many pundits’ expectations. After a 9-3 record in non-conference play, including wins over then-ranked opponents Wichita State and Notre...
When offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin said he would 'love to be back' in Tuscaloosa next season, he pointed to the impending third consecutive quarterback battle as one of many elements piquing his interest....
DALLAS–At this stage, Derrick Henry is the furthest thing from a secret weapon. He's more like a siege engine, a war hammer, a battering ram that will inevitably break through the line.The Spartans of...
Well-known Alabama strength coach Scott Cochran announced his intent to stay at the University earlier this month. The move was praised by fans who feared losing the popular and energetic sideline figure...
When Alabama hired Lane Kiffin to take over as offensive coordinator, pearls were clutched in a then-unseen volume. Here was a botched head coach who left flaming mattresses in his wake after leaving...
One year ago, the Alabama football team was favored to win the inaugural College Football Playoff. Stacked with future NFL draft picks, the No. 1 overall seed was expected to handle Ohio State in the semifinal...
Much has been made of the sheer volume of Heisman trophy-winner Derrick Henry's carries in his last two performances. Against Auburn and Florida, Henry ran the ball a combined 90 times for 460 total yards....
After weeks of speculations surrounding Kirby Smart's departure to become UGA's head coach, UA Athletics announced today that fan-favorite Scott Cochran will remain at the University of Alabama as head...
Alabama freshman point guard Dazon Ingram is out for the season after fracturing his left foot in practice, coach Avery Johnson confirmed in a release.“I am extremely disappointed for Dazon and his...
The University of Alabama football team placed a league-leading 10 players on the Coaches all-SEC teams, the league office announced Tuesday.Seven players made first-team All-SEC, and Alabama led the...
On the surface, Alabama’s shooting performance in its 77-64 win Friday night was substandard. The team finished with 51 percent shooting from the field after an 11-for-25 second half, but from three,...
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...
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,...
UPDATE: The section of the Code of Laws cited by the SGA Judiciary does not exist and never passed the SGA Senate, per multiple senate sources and the SGA's public Code of Laws. After review by The Crimson...
No. 3 Alabama opened the 2015 season with a decisive win over No. 20 Wisconsin. A largely Crimson crowd closed the night with a loud "Rammer Jammer" in AT&T Stadium, the home of the Dallas Cowboys.
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....
The Crimson Tide will take to the field of Bryant-Denny Stadium for its first fall scrimmage today. Coach Nick Saban will address the media around 3 p.m., following the scrimmage.Quick hits from the media...
The view from the student section in Coleman Coliseum will be different-and much closer-in the upcoming men's basketball season.UA Athletics announced via press release a plan to relocate the student...
The University of Alabama Police Department will conduct an internal search for a new police chief after former chief Tim Summerlin's promotion to an administrative position, The Crimson White has learned.UAPD has...
Alabama's season opener against Wisconsin in Fort Worth, Texas on Sept. 5 has been selected as the first location for ESPN's "College GameDay" pregame show this season. ESPN made the announcement via...
A University of Alabama student died Friday in an explosion at Palo Duro Canyon State Park in Texas, The Crimson White has learned. Peyton Trueblood of Mobile, a senior majoring in theatre, was working...
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...
Deontay Wilder and Eric Molina will weigh-in for the final time before Wilder defends his heavyweight title tomorrow night in Birmingham. Broadcast set to begin at 1 p.m. CT. Video courtesy Showtime Sports.
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...
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...
Alabama’s doubleheader sweep of Mississippi Valley State on Tuesday served as an example of a team that can at times pitch and hit its way to a victory. The Crimson Tide won the first game against the...
I knew that this day was coming for a while, the day I would write my final column for The Crimson White, but I was still unsure of exactly what I wanted to write. My time at The University of Alabama...
6 – The total number of interceptions thrown on Saturday.243 – The number of yards receiving that co-MVPs Robert Foster and ArDarius Stewart combined for. Stewart had 118 yards receiving and two...
If there is one major takeaway from Alabama’s quarterback battle from this Saturday’s A-Day game, it’s that Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban is still a long way from deciding on a starter.All five of...
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...
After almost a month of playing some of the best teams in the SEC, the Alabama baseball team is starting to hit its stride. The Crimson Tide played four consecutive weekend series against top-25 teams...
After a season in which Alabama’s secondary struggled mightily, coach Nick Saban made a big change to the coaching staff to address the issue. Saban hired Mel Tucker to be the new secondary coach.Defensive...
In the world of college football, spring indicates a couple of things: the start of spring practice, the first time many early enrollees from the year’s signing class take the field and the beginning...
For the second time, the SGA Senate voted to reject SGA president Elliot Spillers's nomination for chief of staff on Tuesday night. Spillers nominated Douglas Logan, a junior majoring in education, for...
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...
After Tuesday’s 12-1 victory over Samford, in which the Alabama baseball team tied its season-high with 18 hits, the Crimson Tide is hoping to carry that momentum over into this weekend’s series with...
Alabama held its 10th spring practice Wednesday afternoon but Alabama’s new men’s basketball head coach, Avery Johnson, stole the show. Johnson, who was officially introduced in a press conference...
Former NBA champion and NBA coach of the year Avery Johnson signed on as Alabama’s next men’s basketball coach, athletic director Bill Battle announced Monday night.“I am very pleased to announce...
As painful as it may be for Atlanta Braves fans to watch their team trade away most of their star players (and players that weren’t stars), it was what needed to be done. The Braves needed to rebuild...
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...
A long week for the Alabama football program continued during Friday’s spring scrimmage when freshman Bo Scarbrough was carted off the field. Since last Saturday, Alabama has dealt with three player...
The Alabama baseball team battled for as long as it could on Thursday night, but No. 3 LSU was too much to handle.The Crimson Tide completed three different comebacks in the 16-inning affair but could...
One of the toughest tasks for Alabama this upcoming season will be trying to replace All-American and Biletnikoff Award winning wide receiver Amari Cooper, who accounted for 1,727 receiving yards and 16...
With just one series left in a tough SEC stretch that has already seen Alabama play three consecutive weekends against top-15 teams, Crimson Tide coach Mitch Gaspard said he thinks this weekend’s matchup...
After just three days of practice, Alabama coach Nick Saban said he is happy with the way his team has responded so far, but knows they have a long way to go.“I am pleased with the retention that we...
The 2015 MLB season is just around the corner, spring training is wrapping up and most teams' rosters have begun to take shape. With Opening Day less than two weeks away, the Washington Nationals are the...
Alabama only won one game in its three-game series with Texas A&M, but it was an important one.With its 6-2 victory in game two of Saturday’s doubleheader, the Crimson Tide ended the nation’s longest...
Mike Quenneville was 2 years old when he first learned how to skate. The ice he learned on was a frozen pond just down the way from his home in Massena, New York. By the time he was 4, he was playing organized...
With representatives from all NFL teams present, Alabama’s draft hopefuls participated in drills during Pro Day on Wednesday afternoon. The Crimson Tide had 17 former players participate in workouts,...
After starting the season 9-6 and dropping out of the top 25 rankings, Alabama’s baseball team saw fit to organize a team meeting.“We kind of had a come-to-Jesus meeting after one of the games against...
Justin Coleman is small.At 5 foot 10 inches and 160 pounds, the freshman point guard for Alabama might be the smallest player in the SEC. On his own team, the next biggest player is four inches taller...
Editor's note: This story's headline and URL were rewritten to correct a typo in Elliot Spiller's name, removing a second "t" from his first name. Unfortunately, this disrupted many links and lost the...
Senior guard Levi Randolph left the floor of Coleman Coliseum on Tuesday night likely for the last time as a competitor, covering his face with his jersey minutes after Alabama dropped its last regular-season...
One of the Alabama basketball team’s seniors has a perfect shooting percentage in the Southeastern Conference this season.Dakota Slaughter, a walk-on senior majoring in marketing from Fishers, Indiana,...
After dropping the final two games of a weekend series with Louisiana-Lafayette, Alabama baseball will head to Montgomery for a non-conference game with in-state rival Auburn. The teams will face off Tuesday...
Mikey White took a big base-running gamble that didn’t pay off in Alabama’s 6-5 loss to Louisiana-Lafayette on Saturday.The junior shortstop singled with one out in the ninth inning and was standing...
In the 2013-14 season, then-redshirt sophomore Retin Obasohan had 12 double-digit performances. The guard from Antwerp, Belgium, developed a reputation as a speedy, high-flying guard capable of blocking...
As Tuscaloosa ground to a halt, paralyzed by the threat of impending snow, 8838 fans trickled into Coleman Coliseum, quiet as a grave for most of the game.On the court, senior Levi Randolph and junior...
Four days after dropping yet another one-possession game, the Alabama basketball team has the chance to avenge one.The Crimson Tide will host South Carolina on Tuesday night in its penultimate home tilt...
Just short. Again.Alabama lost its fifth consecutive one-possession game, falling 66-65 to UGA at Coleman Coliseum on Saturday night. A career-high in scoring by freshman Riley Norris and a double-double...
The University of Alabama will investigate allegations of misconduct by University of Alabama Police Department officers detailed in an anonymous letter sent to President Judy Bonner and other top officials,...
After sweeping Maryland-Eastern Shore in the first series of the year by a combined score of 36-0, Alabama will face a much tougher opponent in the second series of the season. The Crimson Tide will travel...
After losing to Vanderbilt on Saturday, the Alabama basketball team has next to no hope of an at-large tournament bid.According to the database at TeamRankings.com, the team has a 5.4 percent chance to...
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...
This weekend, when the Alabama basketball team hosts Vanderbilt (13-10) it will have its best chance since the start of conference play to do something it hasn't done in over a month: win back to back...
“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...
For the fourth consecutive game, the Alabama basketball team will be at less than full strength when it travels to Starkville, Mississippi, to take on the Mississippi State Bulldogs.In addition to injured...
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,...
If nothing else, the Alabama basketball team can shoot free throws. Against Missouri, the basement-dwellers of the SEC, the Crimson Tide stepped to the charity stripe a season-high 34 times, making...
The Alabama basketball team had one of the toughest months in the country in January, posting a 4-5 record on a schedule that currently ranks as the 16th toughest schedule in the country and the top in...
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...
When the Alabama basketball team hosted No. 1 undefeated Kentucky earlier this month, the season was full of possibility for Alabama coach Anthony Grant’s squad. The Crimson Tide had dropped a close...
Alabama came within seconds of forcing overtime in its bid to break a then-eight game losing streak to Florida. Guard Ricky Tarrant, playing on an injured ankle, drilled a three with two minutes remaining...
