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All content by Sean Landry

Examining the post-LSU slump

Sean Landry November 13, 2014

Historically speaking, Alabama-LSU isn’t much of a rivalry. Alabama leads the all-time series 49-25-5, including an 11-game undefeated streak by Alabama from 1971 to 1981. For the most part, the two...

Men's basketball to tip off season Friday

Men's basketball to tip off season Friday

Sean Landry November 12, 2014

The 2013-2014 season was a disappointing one for the Alabama men’s basketball team and coach Anthony Grant. The Crimson Tide finished 13-19, including a 5-10 skid to end the season and a 5-13 record...

Randolph leads UA to win

Randolph leads UA to win

Sean Landry November 10, 2014

With six seconds to play in Alabama’s preseason exhibition against Montevallo, Levi Randolph leapt high above the basket to slam home an alley-oop pass from Justin Coleman, the exclamation point on...

Sims, offense come through last minute

Sims, offense come through last minute

Sean Landry November 10, 2014

BATON ROUGE, La. – When it was needed most, No. 5 Alabama’s high-octane offense and hotshot new kicker came through, lifting Alabama to a comeback overtime 20-13 victory over No. 16 LSU. Down three...

Breakdown of Derrick Henry's 41-yard score

Breakdown of Derrick Henry's 41-yard score

Sean Landry October 20, 2014

The Alabama offense found itself in the end zone many times on Saturday, each time in a new way. Saturday’s performance showcased the creativity of new offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin, perhaps exhibited...

Resurgent Alabama dominates No. 21 Texas A&M

Sean Landry October 19, 2014

Coming into Saturday’s game against Texas A&M, the 7th-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide’s position was precarious, at best. Playoff contention had been preserved by a fingertip interception against Arkansas....

On the Road Again

On the Road Again

Sean Landry October 8, 2014

Minutes after the upset loss to the Ole Miss Rebels, the leaders of the Alabama football team stood in a dimly lit clearing outside the visitor’s locker room of Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi....

Alabama grants waiver release

Sean Landry October 7, 2014

The Alabama Athletics department has sent a letter to the NCAA endorsing former women's basketball player Daisha Simmons' transfer to Seton Hall, reversing its prior position opposing the move. "This afternoon,...

Alabama faces Title IX complaint

Alabama faces Title IX complaint

Sean Landry October 6, 2014

Attorney Don Jackson has filed a Title IX complaint against the University of Alabama on behalf of his client, former Alabama women’s basketball player Daisha Simmons. “Information has come to my attention...

Secondary struggles to defend pass

Secondary struggles to defend pass

Sean Landry September 7, 2014

Three games into the season, Alabama’s defense has two distinct identities: one dominant, the 
other inconsistent. In Alabama’s 52-12 victory over Southern Mississippi, the Crimson Tide defense held...

Alabama dominates Florida Atlantic

Alabama dominates Florida Atlantic

Sean Landry September 6, 2014

By the time the lightning came and the game was called, the work had already been done. The Alabama football team shutout the Florida Atlantic Owls, winning 41-0 and recording over 600 yards of total...

GAMEDAY: Star position breakdown

Sean Landry September 1, 2014

Sometime during last week’s victory over the West Virginia Mountaineers, Alabama defensive back Jarrick Williams picked up a foot injury. He finished the game, recording three tackles and affording some...

WVU sports editor talks season opener

WVU sports editor talks season opener

Sean Landry August 27, 2014

Alabama returns to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta to take on the West Virginia Mountaineers in the season opener Saturday. The Crimson White caught up with Connor Murray, sports editor of The Daily Athaeneum...

Offensive line swaps tackles at practice

Offensive line swaps tackles at practice

Sean Landry August 26, 2014

The Alabama football team remained at the Indoor Practice Facility as it prepared for its season opener against West Virginia this Saturday. The quarterbacks executed drills in the order listed on the...

Junior Cyrus Jones a leader in secondary

Junior Cyrus Jones a leader in secondary

Sean Landry August 24, 2014

Alabama’s secondary was beaten several times in Alabama’s 33-23 win over West Virginia Saturday night. The unit blew several coverages and conceded major gains on more than one occasion, endangering...

UA soccer to adopt fluid new philosophy

UA soccer to adopt fluid new philosophy

Sean Landry August 24, 2014

In a sport dominated by variable tactics and numerical formations, the Crimson Tide soccer team won’t define itself with one particular playing philosophy. Instead, the team will “take what the opponent...

Women's tennis team reaching new heights

Sean Landry August 17, 2014

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...

Targeting revisited for 2014 season

Targeting revisited for 2014 season

Sean Landry August 17, 2014

On September 14, 2013, at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas, with Alabama leading Texas A&M 21-14 with 8 minutes and 48 seconds to go in the second quarter, quarterback Johnny Manziel dropped back and...

College Football Playoff replaces BCS

Sean Landry August 17, 2014

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...

Linebackers regroup for season

Linebackers regroup for season

Sean Landry August 17, 2014

Under the watchful eye of position coach Lance Thompson in practice, the outside linebackers worked against the tight ends, attacking a stand-in ?quarterback. For the most part, the linebackers, led by...

Quarterback decision still up in the air

Quarterback decision still up in the air

Sean Landry August 17, 2014

J ake Coker, the much-anticipated transfer from Florida State, stands at 6 feet 5 inches, 250 pounds. Wearing No. 14, Coker resembles a larger, stronger edition of AJ McCarron, the three-time national...

Reed wins annual US scholar-athlete award

Reed wins annual US scholar-athlete award

Sean Landry July 22, 2014

University of Alabama track and field athlete Hayden Reed may have two more years of NCAA eligibility, but the redshirt sophomore has already accomplished more than most. After winning the discus championship...

Taking a shot

Taking a shot

Sean Landry July 22, 2014

The golf course at The Country Club of Mobile, designed in 1928 by perhaps the most prolific golf architect of them all – Donald Ross, of Pinehurst No. 2 fame – has seen its share of  world-class...

Drake, Reed won't be dismissed from team

Drake, Reed won't be dismissed from team

Sean Landry July 17, 2014

In the midst of a hectic appearance on the final day of SEC Media Days, Alabama football coach Nick Saban took time to update the media on the status of recent arrestees Kenyan Drake and Jarran Reed....

Defensive lineman arrested

Defensive lineman arrested

Sean Landry July 15, 2014

Alabama defensive lineman and junior college transfer Jarran Reed was arrested Sunday morning and charged with DUI, according to the Tuscaloosa County Sherriff’s Department. Reed was held in the Tuscaloosa...

The Power of Patterson

The Power of Patterson

Sean Landry July 15, 2014

For the first time in nearly four decades, Sarah Patterson is not the coach of the University of Alabama gymnastics team.Facing dual knee replacement surgeries, the 36-year coach stepped down Tuesday,...

Quarterbacks headline at SEC Media Days

Quarterbacks headline at SEC Media Days

Sean Landry July 8, 2014

The summer holidays have passed, the weather in the South has turned oppressively hot, the summer doldrums have truly begun and the return of college football seems devastatingly far away. Fortunately...

Drake, Reed will not be dismissed from team

Drake, Reed will not be dismissed from team

Sean Landry July 8, 2014

In the midst of a hectic appearance on the final day of SEC Media Days, Alabama football coach Nick Saban took time to update the media on the status of recent arrestees Kenyan Drake and Jarran Reed. Drake,...

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...

Saban, other coaches' contracts approved

Sean Landry June 4, 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 team to compete in regional

Sean Landry May 28, 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...

Tide comes up short in Super 6 final

Tide comes up short in Super 6 final

Sean Landry April 21, 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...

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...

UA gymnasts return to BJCC Arena

Sean Landry March 20, 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 19, 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 17, 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...

Gymnastics seniors to end regular season

Sean Landry March 13, 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 12, 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 10, 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...

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...

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...

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...

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....