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UA pitcher drafted to Tigers

UA pitcher drafted to Tigers

Sean Landry June 17, 2014

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...

NBA Finals game about Spurs, not LeBron James

NBA Finals game about Spurs, not LeBron James

Sean Landry June 17, 2014

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...

USMNT win over Ghana terrifying and exhilarating

Sean Landry June 17, 2014

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...

United States men's national team gives Americans reason to believe

Sean Landry June 10, 2014

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...

Saban, other coaches' contracts approved

Sean Landry June 3, 2014

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...

Baseball’s season ends in Kennesaw State loss

Sean Landry June 3, 2014

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,...

Alabama Men’s Golf team wins back-to-back National Championships

Alabama Men’s Golf team wins back-to-back National Championships

Sean Landry May 29, 2014

UA Athletics The history of the Alabama Crimson Tide is rife with back-to-back National Champions. The Alabama football team has accomplished the feat four separate times, dating back to the 1925 and...

Baseball team to compete in regional

Sean Landry May 27, 2014

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...

Softball team downs Nebraska 2-1, clinches World Series berth

Softball team downs Nebraska 2-1, clinches World Series berth

Sean Landry May 23, 2014

The margin of victory was the same. The total amount of errors was the same. Beyond that, Thursday night’s and Friday afternoon’s NCAA Super Regional games couldn’t have been much more different....

Freshmen come up big in softball team’s marathon win

Sean Landry May 23, 2014

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...

Crimson Tide stumbles from start in 7-1 loss, exit from SEC Tournament

Sean Landry May 20, 2014

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...

Traina, Spencer shine as Alabama advances to Regional Championship

Sean Landry May 17, 2014

  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...

Softball team run-rules SIU-Edwardsville on first day of NCAA play

Sean Landry May 17, 2014

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...

Tide comes up short in Super 6 final

Tide comes up short in Super 6 final

Sean Landry April 20, 2014

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...

Alabama comes up short in Super Six final

Sean Landry April 19, 2014

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...

Jacob wins all-around as Alabama advances to championship

Sean Landry April 19, 2014

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,...

UA celebrates swimming and diving records

UA celebrates swimming and diving records

Sean Landry April 17, 2014

The Alabama swimming and diving program honored the 21 records broken this season at a celebration Wednesday afternoon. Seventeen of those records were broken during the SEC Championships, including freshman...

Curtain Call

Curtain Call

Sean Landry April 17, 2014

The Alabama gymnastics team will send its seniors out on the biggest stage of all when it competes for the program’s seventh national championship this weekend in Birmingham. The meet this weekend marks...

Previewing the 1st round of the 2014 NHL Stanley Cup playoffs

Sean Landry April 13, 2014

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...

Hank Aarons’ 715th homerun can still be heard 40 years later

Sean Landry April 9, 2014

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...

College football unionization creates complicated issue

Sean Landry April 7, 2014

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...

Vision in place: Anthony Grant hopes to improve through consistent play, recruiting

Vision in place: Anthony Grant hopes to improve through consistent play, recruiting

Sean Landry April 2, 2014

Alabama men’s basketball coach Anthony Grant is not a preacher. He clarified this twice over the course of 24 hours, but that didn’t stop him from sharing the good news of his vision for Alabama basketball....

Alabama preps for NCAA Regionals in Seattle

Alabama preps for NCAA Regionals in Seattle

Sean Landry April 2, 2014

Coming off a Southeastern Conference championship, the Alabama gymnastics team didn’t have much of a spring break. After the team heard it would be traveling to Seattle, Wash., this weekend for NCAA...

Alabama wins SEC Championship on final routines

Alabama wins SEC Championship on final routines

Sean Landry March 22, 2014

The Alabama gymnastics team created some March Madness of its own Saturday night, coming from behind to win the Southeastern Conference Championship with a final score of 197.875, over Florida’s 197.7....

UA gymnasts return to BJCC Arena

Sean Landry March 19, 2014

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...

Swimmers finish long journey towards NCAAs

Sean Landry March 18, 2014

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...

Gymnastics team continues perfect scores

Gymnastics team continues perfect scores

Sean Landry March 16, 2014

  The Crimson Tide has seen two perfect scores in its final two weeks of the season. Senior Diandra Milliner was faultless on vault against Stanford a week ago, and on Friday night junior Kaitlyn Clark...

Clark earns perfect score, Alabama downs Auburn on Senior Night

Sean Landry March 14, 2014

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...

Gymnastics seniors to end regular season

Sean Landry March 12, 2014

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...

Tide prepares for SEC tournament play

Sean Landry March 11, 2014

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...

UA swimmers hope to claim NCAA titles

Sean Landry March 9, 2014

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...

Alabama sets school record in win over No. 10 Stanford

Alabama sets school record in win over No. 10 Stanford

Sean Landry March 7, 2014

Friday night’s gymnastics meet was nearly over from the start, when a perfect 10 from senior Diandra Milliner on vault pushed the Crimson Tide into a lead over the No. 10 Stanford Cardinal that it never...

Milliner vital leader for Alabama gymnastics team

Milliner vital leader for Alabama gymnastics team

Sean Landry March 6, 2014

Halfway through Friday’s gymnastics meet against Florida, senior Diandra Milliner, filling in for the injured Sarah DeMeo, fell hard from the uneven bars. Backed by her teammates and coach, the NCAA...

Releford ends final season at UA

Releford ends final season at UA

Sean Landry March 6, 2014

When senior guard Trevor Releford chose to come to The University of Alabama, he turned down offers from then-Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl, then-Oklahoma basketball coach Jeff Capel and someone unusual...

Discerning Diverse Voices presents research

Tyler Waldrep March 4, 2014

The College of Communication and Information Sciences is hosting its fifth annual symposium on diversity, Discerning Diverse Voices, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday in 205 Gorgas Library. The event...

Tide breaks school records at SECs

Sean Landry March 4, 2014

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...

Levi Randolph dominant in win over Auburn

Sean Landry March 3, 2014

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...

Derek Jeter deserves respect in final season playing base

Sean Landry March 3, 2014

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...

Crimson Tide looks for 1st away win

Sean Landry February 26, 2014

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...

U.S. men’s hockey team faces uphill battle in fight for gold medal

Sean Landry February 20, 2014

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...

Swim coaches see raw potential

Sean Landry February 18, 2014

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...

Releford, Alabama snap streak

Releford, Alabama snap streak

Sean Landry February 12, 2014

It was so nearly the same old story for Alabama basketball Tuesday night. Turnovers and a stagnant offense made a halftime lead evaporate, and Alabama was fading down the stretch. The same formula had...

Openly gay Michael Sam will matter in NFL

Sean Landry February 12, 2014

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....

Alabama men’s basketball team seeking shelter from storm

Sean Landry February 11, 2014

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...

Author presents autobiographic graphic novel

Tyler Waldrep February 6, 2014

Author Lila Quintero Weaver will speak at Gorgas Library on Thursday as the second author in the current “Authors @ Gorgas” series. This lecture series, presented by the University of Alabama Press,...

Men’s basketball team begins crucial stretch against Arkansas

Sean Landry February 5, 2014

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....

Swimming and diving to be without key figures against Georgia

Sean Landry January 30, 2014

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...

Women’s basketball team ready for Florida offense

Sean Landry January 30, 2014

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...

Men’s tennis team seeking to build momentum against Texas

Sean Landry January 30, 2014

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...

Seniors perform in last home meet without Pursley

Sean Landry January 27, 2014

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...

Alabama basketball misses Obasohan against hot shooting Florida

Alabama basketball misses Obasohan against hot shooting Florida

Sean Landry January 23, 2014

The Alabama basketball team kept it close but will be left wondering what might have been after falling to the No. 6 Florida Gators Saturday night. Alabama’s second leading scorer, Retin Obasohan...

Alabama swimming and diving team celebrates seniors

Sean Landry January 22, 2014

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...

Men’s basketball team hopes to defend home winning streak

Sean Landry January 15, 2014

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...

Tide wins home swim meet

Sean Landry January 13, 2014

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...

NWTF donates $20,000 to found UA shooting team

Sean Landry December 5, 2013

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...

Sports can affect fans in emotional ways

Sean Landry December 4, 2013

“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...

Alabama frequently ‘comes out flat’

Sean Landry November 20, 2013

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...

NBA tanking becoming terrible trend

Sean Landry November 12, 2013

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...

Pursley pushes for team improvement throughout season

Sean Landry November 6, 2013

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...

Tide prepares for championships

Sean Landry October 29, 2013

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...

BCS system going out with a bang

Sean Landry October 21, 2013

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...

Junior tennis star Emily Zabor demonstrates leadership on, off court

Sean Landry October 15, 2013

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...

U.S. soccer team deserves national respect

Sean Landry October 8, 2013

“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...

UA bowling club rolls on despite lack of funding

Sean Landry September 18, 2013

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...

UA bowling club rolls on despite lack of funding

Sean Landry September 18, 2013

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...

Club rugby team strives for chemistry

Sean Landry September 17, 2013

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...