The University of Florida’s president is expected to pitch a playoff plan at Friday’s SEC meetings in Destin, Florida, the Press-Register reported. The playoff plan’s key point is that revenue would be distributed equally among all 119 Division-1 schools, unlike the present BCS system where the six major conferences get the most amount of money. [...]
Archive | May, 2007
SEC Spring Meetings
DESTIN—Nick Saban joined other SEC coaches at the conference’s annual Spring meeting in Destin, Florida. Saban met with other coaches for about four hours on Tuesday. At the meeting, Saban said he was glad to be back in the conference. He also said he has “respect” for Les Miles, according to the Press-Register. “I didn’t [...]
War on Saban continues; Bama plans report
The Miami war against Nick Saban continued this week with the media’s allegations of inappropriate contact between Saban and recruits at two Miami-area high schools. Who is shocked that Miami area press would savage Saban again? After all these are the same upstanding models of professionalism who released confidential off-the-record comments in a spiteful effort [...]
Mobile ranked #1
Mobile was ranked #1 on the list of wettest cities in the U.S. Of course, the ranking would come out during one of the driest periods for Alabama in the last 20 years. In today’s Birmingham News, there were details about the critical shortage of water in the Birmingham area’s reservoirs. Why am I writing [...]
Religion and football: Path to NCAA violations?
Who knew religion and football were as inflammatory as church and state? Over the last week we heard the AHSAA banned Hoover High School from playing a game on Sunday afternoon because, “Sunday is a day of worship.†Also, we heard details about a minister connected with the Auburn football program that one “columnist†believes [...]
More of the same
“There is no new thing under the sun,” wrote Solomon in the 10th Century B.C. And bloggers, commentators and journalists prove his point. There isn’t an original thought anywhere. Certainly, there is nothing new when this Auburn blog alleges Alabama fans are “crazies” and have unreal expectations. Of course, this blogger is just parroting what [...]
Not everyone in La. hates Saban
LSU BLOG:Saban will win quick at Alabama Can you believe some media in the Bayou state isn’t biased? Sure, not every reporter in Louisiana uses an Internet hoax in their column, but there is an anti-Saban tone form most writers covering the SEC in Louisiana. This writer recognizes Saban is a good coach, and the [...]
OUTRAGE:Town squelches public’s right to vote
Editor’s note: With fewer real football stories taking place, we are entertaining ourselves with commentary on other issues involving the state. We’ll try to append a note at the top of each in case you’d rather just skip the stuff that isn’t football. The Town of Argo, a suburb of Birmingham, has decided it would [...]
A case against gun control
Editor’s note: With fewer real football stories taking place, we are entertaining ourselves with commentary on other issues involving the state. We’ll try to append a note at the top of each in case you’d rather just skip the stuff that isn’t football. A few weeks ago there was a heated discussion on the Paul [...]
Alabama-Duke moving to Ga. Dome?
It is a few years off, but there is serious talk of moving the Alabama-Duke game to the Georgia Dome. The Atlanta Sports Council met with the Duke AD during the ACC spring meetings about the possibility of hosting the 2010 Alabama & Duke game in the Georgia Dome, Tony Barnhardt reported May 15 for [...]
Small towns, big troubles
Small towns, big troubles: St. Clair County Or why I oppose constitutional reform Editor’s note: With fewer real football stories taking place, we are entertaining ourselves with commentary on other issues involving the state. We’ll try to append a note at the top of each in case you’d rather just skip the stuff that isn’t [...]
ThyssenKrupp takes away jobs?
Editor’s note: With fewer real football stories taking place, we are entertaining ourselves with commentary on other issues involving the state. We’ll try to append a note at the top of each in case you’d rather just skip the stuff that isn’t football. “Instead of sending jobs overseas this time, Alabama is using taxpayer money [...]
UA under fire over graduation speech
TUSCALOOSA—A graduation speech delivered by James T. Stephens, chairman of EBSCO Industries of Birmingham, has drawn fire from many who attended the ceremony due to its overtly political nature. According to the University, Stephens was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters. Some in attendance expressed dismay at Stephens’ attack on the Bush administration regarding [...]
Ethics problem
Alabama’s system of education is so corrupt, it must be overhauled. And the first step in that overhaul is to ban the lucrative (and perverse) arrangement where legislators work for state schools. The hiring of state legislators by the Alabama two-year college system is at the center of many stories by the Pulitzer Prize winning [...]
Nick Saban…pain in the ass
While Alabama fans are happy to have Saban, the folks in Miami continue to ridicule the man; one blog post pointed out Saban was a pain in the ass. In fact, some players are quoted as saying things are calmer at practice without all the tension Saban created. So pro football players can’t hack the [...]
PROFILE: BAMA TWINS
As promised, here is the story on the Bama Twins. Two girls and a hat! By Suzy Lowry Geno Faith & Home Magazine Race fans on-site and TV viewers from around the world for the Aaron’s Race weren’t seeing double race weekend when they saw two beautiful blonds in Victory Lane and throughout the weekend [...]
Magazine profiles Bama Twins
A Birmingham area magazine plans a feature story on the houndstooth-cap wearing blondes that CBS television loves to show. Faith & Home Magazine kindly sent us the May cover with Maegan and Ashley Bailey. Unfortunately, their website has some technical issues and the story isn’t up. But never fear; we are posting it here…as soon [...]
Tony Mitchell’s suspension much needed
As the Crimson Tide takes the floor tonight in basketball’s version of the Iron Bowl (part one, anyway), it’ll do [...]