Women's tennis coach Jenny Mainz is the longest tenured coach at The University of Alabama. In 2014, the team won its first regular season SEC title. It also reached the SEC tournament championship...

For 16 years, the Bowl Championship Series ruled the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision with an algorithm designed to put the two best college football teams on the field at the end of the season to decide...

HOOVER - Within half an hour, LSU freshman running back Leonard Fournette had been compared to Michael Jordan and Adrian Peterson - all before playing a down of college football. LSU coach Les Miles commended...

HOOVER - SEC Coordinator of officials Steve Shaw appeared before assembled media on day three of SEC Media Days to clarify a number of rule changes and points of emphasis for the upcoming season.Shaw explained...

The first day of SEC Media Days was led by defending SEC Champion Auburn, with much of the talk concerning consecutive titles. “Last year we weren’t on anybody’s radar,” Auburn coach Gus Malzahn...

HOOVER - The first day of SEC Media Days was led by defending SEC Champion Auburn, with much of the talk concerning consecutive titles. “Last year we weren’t on anybody’s radar,” Auburn coach...

The Alabama football team could play live in front of more than a million people in 2014. The Tide will play in the 101,000-person Bryant-Denny Stadium, the 102,000-person Neyland Stadium in Tennessee...

The Alabama baseball team’s season is over. Sewell-Thomas Stadium is closed, soon to be added to the laundry list of on-campus renovations. The coaches have gone on the recruiting trail, the newest athletes...

I can’t believe I’m writing this column in June 2014. Two years or more after we started having this conversation, and we’re still talking about the name of the National Football League franchise...

Boy, that was fun, wasn’t it?Not the 86 minutes of sheer terror. That wasn’t fun. Neither was Jozy Altidore going down with injury, or Matt Besler coming out at halftime, or Asamoah Gyan causing all...

There’s a column in today’s paper by The Crimson White’s Alabama soccer beat reporter asking our readership to use the World Cup as a time to start following soccer. It’s a point well-made, and...

The pitch came from Kennesaw State reliever Justin McCalvin, low and inside to Alabama sophomore Kyle Overstreet. Overstreet waited and watched, even jumping out of the way of what he thought was a ball,...

The University of Alabama is famously home to the Million Dollar Band, but following a Board of Trustees Compensation Committee meeting Tuesday, Alabama can claim a $6.5 million man: head football coach...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

Sports writers and NFL fans like to use the phrase “any given Sunday” to describe the unpredictability of professional football. Despite perceived talent gaps, any one team can upset a favored team...

Standing in the sun on a warm October afternoon, women’s tennis coach Jenny Mainz gets chills while she talks about junior Emily Zabor. “When I recruited Emily Zabor – look at the hair on my arm...

“The noise here is beautiful. I honestly can’t believe we are in America,” ESPN writer Roger Bennett said during a U.S. World Cup Qualifier last month. On Aug. 25, world-renowned athlete Clint Dempsey...

Bama Lanes may not be Bryant-Denny Stadium, but University of Alabama bowling club president Craig Bartlesmeyer sounds eerily reminiscent of coach Nick Saban as he talks about the expectations for the...

Bama Lanes may not be Bryant-Denny Stadium, but University of Alabama bowling club president Craig Bartlesmeyer sounds eerily reminiscent of coach Nick Saban as he talks about the expectations for the...

The University of Alabama women’s club rugby team has one clear-cut goal for this year: chemistry, on and off the pitch. “I’ve actually been amazed by how friendly everyone’s been since I’ve...