Recruiting update: Ishaq Williams changes game at basketball-craze Lincoln, remains ‘calm, collected’ Name: Ishaq Williams School: Abraham Lincoln High School (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Class: Senior Position: defensive end/tight end Height: 6-5 Weight: 225 Colleges: Considering Alabama, Notre Dame, Penn State, Miami, Florida, Oklahoma, Nebraska, USC, and UCLA. AP: The 6-foot-5, 225-pound defensive end-tight end has taken [...]
Archive | September, 2010
Recruiting: Alabama-bound Trey DePriest
Recruiting update: ‘Football smart’ Trey DePriest looks to top 100 tackles for a second straight year The Alabama Crimson Tide landed a top linebacker when Trey DePriest committed to play football at Alabama. Here is more information on the recruit: Name: Trey DePriest School: Springfield (Ohio) High School Class: Senior Position: Linebacker Height: 6-2 Weight: [...]
Recruiting: Alabama-bound Ryan Kelly
Recruiting update: Ryan Kelly, one of the more versatile offensive linemen in the country, is Alabama-bound Name: Ryan Kelly School: Lakota West Class: Senior Positon: Offensive lineman Height: 6-5 Weight: 290 College: Alabama AP: “I’ve been there three times and the relationships just keep getting stronger and stronger,” said Kelly, who plans to major in [...]
Recruiting: Alabama’s prizes from Ohio
Alabama Recruiting Update AP: But Ohio State didn’t keep everyone in state. Among the top talent heading elsewhere is Troy DePriest, a senior linebacker from Springfield who is friends with Miller but has chosen to go to top-ranked Alabama. At 6-foot-2 with a 40-yard dash time of 4.79 seconds, DePriest is coming off a big [...]
More picks for Week 1 & preview of LSU game
The AP’s Ralph D. Russo picks the games and includes this for Alabama and Florida: San Jose State (plus 37 1/2) at No. 1 Alabama Mark Ingram will not be missed — yet … ALABAMA 48-7. Miami of Ohio (plus 35) at No. 4 Florida Tim Tebow will not be missed — yet … FLORIDA [...]
Alabama’s Ingram was playing his best football
Powered by Mochila AP: Alabama coach Nick Saban says Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram was playing the best football of his Crimson Tide career before his injury. Top-ranked Alabama’s tailback injured his left knee in Monday’s practice and had an arthroscopic procedure. Saban didn’t shed much light Wednesday on his timetable for a return to [...]
Alabama football: Playing without Mark Ingram
AP: If the absence proves short-lived, it figures to have more of an impact on Ingram’s bid to join Ohio State running back Archie Griffin as the only two-time Heisman winners than it does on Alabama’s hopes for a repeat national title. … “It’s different not having (Ingram) out there,” Richardson said. “We’re not losing [...]
Auburn football wants attention
“A lot of people overlook Auburn,” Stevens told the AP. “That was one of the most exciting games that week. We played hard and ended up pulling it out in the end. I remember all of us went home and turned on ESPN trying to see the highlights. They showed everybody’s highlights and then they [...]
Nike is a pimp; Alabama is a whore
At SEC Media Days Alabama Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban warned that unscrupulous agents were pimps. Unfortunately, there are other pimps in this world. And whores. Both greedy of any gain and ready to exploit anyone to get it. In this case, the University of Alabama and its athletic department play the role of whore, [...]
AP: Picking the BCS
Here are some picks from the AP’s Ralph Russo: Sugar Bowl: Alabama (at-large) vs. Ohio State (at-large). The preseason favorites to reach the BCS title game will both be relegated to second-best in their conferences. The Buckeyes get yet another postseason opportunity to show they can keep pace with the SEC. BCS championship in Glendale, [...]
Jones: Tide & Tigers will start with big wins
Sports In Paradise By Dale Jones It is going to be pretty tough to beat my record from last season. During the 12-week regular season, picking 14 games each week as well as an upset of the week, I went 142-38 for a winning percentage of .789. On top of that, I selected the upset [...]
Hoover braces for baseball tournament without Bama
As the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament begins, Hoover businesses are getting ready to feel, well, not much of anything. Since [...]