In one of the most anticipated games of the college football season, Alabama plays Texas A&M. The Alabama vs Texas A&M 2013 game will be broadcast on CBS at 2:30 p.m. Check for other updates, game times and news on the 2013 Alabama Football Schedule. Here is the official release. Alabama vs Texas A&M 2013 [...]
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What will Paul Finebaum’s move mean to Alabama, Auburn?
One has to wonder what the Alabama – Auburn rivalry would have been over the last 30 years without Paul Finebaum. News broke Tuesday that Finebaum’s silence would soon cease, as the ultra successful talk show host will soon join ESPN. The marriage will include a new show broadcast from Charlotte, North Carolina, a television [...]
Football Preview: Alabama’s T.J. Yeldon stars for the 2013 Tide
This is part 2 of our Alabama Football Preview. Here is the first part of our 2013 Alabama Football Preview where we examined Alabama’s quarterback situation. Today we take a look at T.J. Yeldon and the Alabama running back situation. Guest Post by Joshua At running back this season, T.J. Yeldon set fire to the [...]
2013 Alabama Football Preview: A look at QB A.J. McCarron & the backup situation
Guest Post Alabama Football Preview by Joshua Right now, the Mighty Alabama Crimson Tide are the “New England Patriots” of college football. But at his point in the 2013 season, the Tide is just like any other college team in the nation. Everybody is undefeated. But what sets Alabama football apart? As Bama sets it’s [...]
Florida assistant coach mocks Alabama football coach Nick Saban
Tell me if you have heard this one before—Nick Saban is Darth Vader…only meaner. Nick Saban makes people cry. The Alabama football coach doesn’t smile; The Alabama football coach doesn’t engage in BS sessions; The Alabama football coach doesn’t have a soul. And so the narrative goes. Perpetrated by some in the local and regional [...]
Basketball: SEC Big 12 Challenge matchups announced; Alabama faces Texas Tech Nov. 14
The SEC and Big 12 announced a partnership to create a SEC Big 12 Challenge in men’s basketball. Here is the 2013 schedule released today: 2013 SEC Big 12 Challenge schedule (times and networks are to be determined): Thursday, November 14 Texas Tech at Alabama Monday, December 2 Vanderbilt at Texas and Auburn at Iowa [...]
Bob Stoops leads entire state of Oklahoma “Up In Smoke”
It’s been a week since Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops made his idiotic statements to The Tulsa World about the SEC’s perceived dominance being “a lot of propaganda that gets fed out to you.” His argument was this: The top half of a league isn’t what determines its strength, but instead it’s how well the [...]
Alabama getting love from Forbes again
People don’t read Forbes magazine for the cartoons or advice columns. There isn’t a lot of filler fodder to take up space. No, Forbes is about power. Dollars and cents, and a whole lot of business sense. And the periodical read by the ultra successful (and those who want to be) is in love with [...]
Does Bama baseball need a new stadium? The answer is in your Sunday Cup of Coffee.
Among Tide fans, one of the most popular debates these days has to do with Bama baseball. Not on-the-field play, though Alabama’s season hasn’t finished with the promise with which it started. Instead, talk among Bama faithful is in the stands. As in, literally up in the stands…where they’re sitting. If you want to spark [...]
An Urban Meyer vs. Nick Saban rematch?
Jerry Palm of cbssports.com has said it. Alabama will return to the BCS National Championship game next season in a match-up with Ohio State. If it happens, it would mean a rematch between Nick Saban and the man he sent to the emergency room shortly after his 2009 thrashing in the SEC Championship Game. The [...]
Ariel Castro teaches us huge lessons
This is a sports blog about University of Alabama athletics, offering insight about the goings on of our rivals, as well as others around the country. But every now and then a story breaks that transcends sports. Such is the story in Cleveland, where three young women had been held captive for ten years at [...]
BASKETBALL: Grant lands power forward transfer
Alabama men’s basketball head coach Anthony Grant announced the signing of transfer Michael Kessens, a 6-9, 215-pound power forward who played his freshman season at Longwood University. Kessens, a native of Nyon, Switzerland, joins fellow transfer Ricky Tarrant (Tulane) as well as two-time JUCO All-American guard Algie Key (Barton CC in Decatur, Georgia) and freshmen [...]
Which current Auburn player has ever scored against Bama? The answer is in your Sunday Cup of Coffee
We all know that Auburn fans are a little dense. They’re Koolaid drinkers eager to lap up whatever the soup du jour Auburn spinmeisters serve up. But in recently talking with a friend of mine, who happens to be of that persuasion, it was fun to experience the revelation come over him that there isn’t [...]
RECRUITING: Alabama adds top Texas linebacker to an already promising 2014 class
The rich keep getting richer, as Alabama head coach Nick Saban continues to find top talent across the land not afraid to compete with the best. Friday blue-chip linebacker Zach Whitley of Galena Park-North Shore, Texas committed to coach Saban. The 6-2½, 220-pound Whitley is considered one of the nation’s top linebackers for the 2014 [...]
Auburn’s Jay Jacobs says take his word for it, NCAA says they’re clean
The NCAA has not publicly cleared Auburn or commented on Auburn’s myriad of speculative infractions, but Auburn Athletic’s Director Jay Jacobs wants you to know that they have. Thanks Jay. As the cloud continues to hover over Lee County, Jay wants you to know that the NCAA is “satisfied” with Auburn’s defense in the latest [...]
SEC TV Network announced; ATT U-Verse first national distributor
The SEC and ESPN announce a new SEC TV network with 20-year rights extension and a digital platform. Here is the official release from the SEC and ESPN about the television network and the digital platform: The Southeastern Conference and ESPN Announce new TV Network and Digital Platform 20-Year Agreement and Rights Extension through 2034; [...]
Inside the Reuben Foster you thought you knew
Football is a man’s game played by boys. Sometimes we forget that the players we cheer for on Saturday are kids. Mere kids. Kids in how they think, how they act, and how they process what’s taking place around them. Such is the case with Reuben Foster. Has there ever been a player whose recruitment [...]
How could Barrett Jones be picked so low in this year’s draft? The answer is in your Sunday Cup Of Coffee
With the 2013 NFL Draft now in the rearview mirror, Bama managed to have nine players drafted, a modern day Alabama record. Of course you know about Dee Milliner, Chance Warmack and DJ Fluker going in order in the 1st round, 9th, 10th and 11th, and Eddie Lacy going in the 2nd round to Green [...]
Eddie Lacy a Green Bay Packer
Friday Eddie Lacy became the 61st pick in 2013 NFL draft, going late in the 2nd round to the Green Bay Packers. Amazingly, the Offensive MVP of the 2013 Discover BCS National Championships Game was the third runnng back taken in the 2nd round, behind Michigan State’s Le’Veon Bell and Wisconsin’s Montee Ball. And the [...]
Cam Newton defense doesn’t work for everyone; NCAA enforcement discriminates
The NCAA is arbitrary and capricious. It persecutes who it wills and rewards others. The case of Georgia’s Kolton Houston is the perfect example of how differently players are treated by the organization that is supposed to protect the integrity of college athletics. The facts of the case are well known and widely reported. According [...]