For the baseball fans here is the official release from UA about the postseason. (UA) TUSCALOOSA – The University of Alabama baseball team has earned the No. 2 seed at the 2010 NCAA Atlanta Regional, the NCAA Division Baseball Committee revealed live on ESPN on Monday. Joining Alabama (37-22) in the four-team field are No. [...]
Archive | May, 2010
More Gayness In Auburn?
What started as a simple question has now turned into full-blown quandary. What is going on in Auburn? Will their colors stay orange and blue, or should we expect rainbow uni’s when the Tiggers tee it up against Arkansas State? Following Big Cat Weekend, here’s what one attendee (Ray Drew) had to say: “It was [...]
Bama stays red hot, downs Gators
Alabama sophomore pitcher Adam Morgan added his name to the list of Bama pitchers who went the distance to advance their teams in the 2010 SEC Baseball Tournament, allowing just two runs on six hits by the Gators. Jimmy Nelson became the first on Wednesday, with Nathan Kilcrease basically doing the same pitching 8 1/3 [...]
What really goes on at Big Cat Weekend?
As our trusted and fearless leader Cappy uncovered for us in a brilliant piece about Tim James, a recent article on espn.com may have uncovered the real draw of Big Cat Weekend. In the article, senior linebacker Josh Bynes, put it this way: “What we love the most about Coach Chizik is that he gets [...]
Gene Stallings to be inducted into Hall of Fame
This was announced Thursday evening by press release. Here are the official details: GENE STALLINGS TO BE INDUCTED INTO COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME NEW YORK – The Veterans Committee of the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame has selected former Alabama head football coach Gene Stallings for induction as a part of [...]
Tim James is a socialist & other thoughts
Tim James is a socialist. We know this because socialists like to punish the successful and reward the incompetent. Hence, Tim James campaign promise to harm the successful Alabama Crimson Tide and coach Nick Saban in an attempt to help the incompetent Auburn athletic department and hapless coach Gene Chizik. When you can’t win in [...]
Pitching again key as Bama advances, beats Rebels
Like his teammate and fellow pitcher the day before, Nathan Kilcrease took the Tide into the ninth inning in a second round win over the Ole Miss Rebels. A day earlier Jimmy Nelson pitched a complete game to ice Abarn and send them to the loser’s bracket. On Thursday, the Phenix City, Alabama native would [...]
Bama stays hot; finishes Auburn in SEC opener
Bama pitcher Jimmy Nelson racked seven strikeouts to tame the Tigers in the first game of the 2010 SEC Baseball Tournament in front of an overflow crowd at Regions Park today. The Tigers took an early 1-0 lead but could muster no more as Nelson pitched his third straight complete game. A 3 run 9th [...]
Why WAS Aycock not welcome in “The Fambly”?
Apparently there is an Abarn player not welcome in the Awbuhn Fambly…but the bigger story here appears to be the predictable lack of investigation into the real story. We often point out here at capstonereport.com the biased coverage Abarn appears to receive around the state, with Auburn beat writers at state newspapers spinning, not covering. [...]
Tim James out to harm Alabama, Saban?
Tim James tweeted a denial that he would fire or attempt to cut Alabama Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban’s salary. Here is the tweet: “Dispelling another untruth from the Byrne camp: I will neither be firing nor cutting Coach Saban’s salary if elected.” Anyone who believes this is a fool. James is in bed with [...]
Alabama’s Kareem Jackson jumps into starting role
Former Alabama Crimson Tide football player Kareem Jackson has turned heads in workouts for the Houston Texans. From the Associated Press, “He’s been very impressive. He jumps in there like he belongs. We’ve got a long way to go, but I like his size,” Kubiak said of Jackson, who is the same height as Robinson [...]
ITK Answers the Roundtable Questions
My thanks to Cappy for inviting me to answer this week’s questions. Agree or disagree, here is my take: What do you think of SEC Commissioner Mike Slive? I believe that Commissioner Slive has done a remarkable job. Picking up the pieces from his obviously biased and corrupt predecessor, Slive has restored dignity to the [...]
Roundtable: State of the SEC & more
It is a mostly quiet and boring offseason. Does it get any better than this? Being that things are going well in Tuscaloosa, I thought I’d focus a little on the overall state of the SEC. On to the questions for this week’s Crimson & White Roundtable: What do you think of SEC Commissioner Mike [...]
Alabama and Nike deal valued at $30 million
Here is the official release: ALABAMA ATHLETICS AND NIKE EXTEND AGREEMENT THROUGH 2018 TUSCALOOSA – The University of Alabama and Nike, Inc., have signed an amendment to extend their agreement originally signed in 2002 for Nike to be the exclusive supplier of athletic footwear, apparel and accessory products to Crimson Tide athletics teams through June [...]
Am I getting old? I don’t want 3D
Comcast and DirecTV have announced they will carry the ESPN 3D channel. You can read the AP story about it embedded below. But I have no intention of buying a 3D television, or wearing those idiotic glasses. I remember in the 1970s that 3D was the fad. You could wear those stupid glasses that just [...]
Oklahoma St. & conference expansion
AP: Prominent Oklahoma State booster T. Boone Pickens believes his alma mater should stay put in the Big 12. Speaking at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City, Pickens said Wednesday that he doesn’t think Oklahoma State should move to another conference “before you’re required to make that decision.” The entire AP report follows below. The [...]
Roundtable: Questions about 2010
I was sick today. So, I spent the day on the couch watching DVDs and CNBC. Erin Burnett is hot. Or maybe I just liked seeing Goldman up for a change, but my BP was still down. So, I think it was that she is hot. As for the DVDs, I watched Firefly and Felicia [...]
Jeff Foxworthy speaks about UAB
Okay…not really. But if he did, in true, old fashion Jeff Foxworthy form, this is what he might say: “If your football team owns one lonely win over Southern Miss, a team that Bama (in one of its worst seasons in history) once attempted only five passes against in a comfortable two-touchdown victory…you might have [...]
UAB fans embarrass state of Alabama
UAB Blazer fans are everything wrong with Alabama and America—obnoxious people who cannot have a conversation without tossing insults. Here is a selection of Blazer fan commentary posted on this website in the last week. Get ready though. If you don’t think UAB should have football, you are either a racist like George C. Wallace [...]
The Bham News drops another edition
We at Capstone Report strongly encourage you to consider your choices when it comes to where you get your news…specifically, your sports news…in our fair state. If you enjoy reading that a football program who has yet to play a game, led by a coach who is a perennial loser somehow holds all the cards [...]
Reconsidering my vote for Bradley Byrne
I was going to vote for Bradley Byrne. He stood up to the corrupt practices in the two-year college system; he took on Paul Hubbert and the AEA—which to my mind is as noble an action as standing up to the Soviet Union. However, Byrne’s startling revelation on the Paul Finebaum Radio Network that he [...]
Repost: UAB’s pathetic academic performance
From the Associated Press: Ten schools made the underachieving list in football and men’s basketball, getting punishments that range from scholarship losses to reductions in practice times. Only two — Alabama-Birmingham and New Mexico State — play in college football’s top level. UAB was the only school in the major football to receive a reduction [...]
BREAKING: Region reverses; now uncommitted
Spencer Region is no longer committed to play college football for the Auburn Tigers. According to the Cullman Times, “I’m back to undecided,” Region said in a text message. “I’m back to undecided to make sure about things and evaluate everything a little more. …(My decision) has nothing to do with Auburn or their coaching [...]
Computers blamed for stock market plunge
I was sitting in my car when the market went crazy today. I’m glad I was. My BP and GS stocks have been battered enough over the last few weeks. I didn’t need the excitement of today. Some of the blame for the wild gyration is placed on computers. From Reuters: But the follow-through selling [...]
Projection: AU, Chizik to have great 2010 season
One of our regular Auburn fan readers provided his own outlook for the 2010 season. Some of his projections are startling. I made the editorial decision to create its own topic so more people would see it. It is safe to say that Auburn fans believe they are back. The spelling and other errors were [...]
Time to form an anti-UAB PAC
UAB violated NCAA rules by tampering with a University of Alabama Crimson Tide basketball player it was alleged Thursday. It was a “strong suspicion” of tampering that prevented the Justin Knox scholarship transfer to UAB, according to one report. The Birmingham News was naturally irresponsible in its coverage/commentary on the matter. (Can you expect anything [...]
Does Alabama’s Saban need security?
AP columnist Tim Dahlberg raised an interesting question in this column (see it all below) on police and sports, “And how about the state troopers who shadow college football coaches across the South like they are working protection for the president? Is Nick Saban so important to the people of Alabama that he needs as [...]
Time to close UAB athletics
Knox situation one more reason to close UAB sports UAB is a beacon of achievement in Birmingham. It is a place where students go to get an education. It isn’t a party school. It isn’t a football powerhouse. A strong majority of students do not care about UAB athletics—you couldn’t pay them to attend football [...]
Scooped: Birmingham News beaten by NY Times
While the Birmingham News and its sportswriters were obsessing over Justin Knox and his transfer status, the New York Times was hard at work exposing an NCAA probe of alleged cheating in Birmingham. What went wrong? Why was the local paper scooped by a national publication? There are many reasons. However, the key point is [...]