Would someone reading this please help me? I’ve got a real problem on my hands and I’m out of answers. I’ve lost count of the number of days and nights NFL reps have pounded on my door trying to force me to play professional football. All I simply want to do is follow my dream [...]
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Don’t be deceived, BCS move to playoff system all about dollars and not the fans
“They are listening to the fans,” Bill Hancock, executive director of the Bowl Championship Series, said of the 11 commissioners and Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick in the New York Times, SI & other publications. “They get it. People would like to do something different.” When a politician tells you that he is going [...]
Five things we can all learn from Bobby Petrino
As University of Arkansas A.D. Jeff Long continues to weigh whether winning is more important than doing the right thing, there are a few things we can all learn from Bobby Petrino. 1. Looking stupid at your presser is almost as bad as the sin that got you in trouble. I said almost. But good [...]
Commentary: Moralizing aside, Arkansas needs Bobby Petrino
Save me the pious pontification on morality. This is college football. This is the world where pieces of crap like Cam Newton (laptop thief, academic fraudster) are celebrated. This is the world where if you ain’t cheating, then you ain’t trying. Yet, some members of the press want to tar and feather Bobby Petrino for [...]
Gene Chizik is a freaking idiot, according to Georgia signee
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting some of the hilarity taking place in Auburn these days, and it’s hard to believe this story isn’t getting more play. Al.com did pick it up, but this should be front page news. It really is hard to take Auburn seriously, but this makes it even harder. Georgia signee Jordan [...]
Commentary: Spring promising another strong Alabama football team for 2012 campaign & other random thoughts
When Nick Saban arrived in Tuscaloosa, everyone knew it was the start of something special. Sure, rival fans wanted to pretend things would go bad. You heard many Auburn and Tennessee fans dreaming in statements like: “Saban has never gone undefeated!” “Saban has never had back-to-back 10-win seasons!” “Saban won’t recruit at Alabama like he [...]
Saleem Rasheed pleads guilty in Federal Court
Former University of Alabama linebacker Saleem Abdul Rasheed, 30, of Bessemer, pleaded guilty to charges of food stamp fraud and falsely claiming a woman as his wife on immigration forms, according to a joint statement from U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Patrick J. Maley and ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations Special [...]
Fun & Sun: The perfect summer playlist for driving with the windows down
This post brought to you by Kia Rio. All opinions are 100% mine. Kia and Microsoft have teamed to present the UVO experience in the new Kia Rio. The UVO Infotainment System Powered by Microsoft is cutting edge technology that lets the driver use voice commands and Bluetooth to make phone calls, stream music and [...]
Bama-Creighton shows it’s time for video replay in college basketball
As most thought would happen, the Alabama Crimson Tide fell to Omaha, Nebraska’s Creighton Blue Jays by a final score of 58-57 on Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Bama led the Jays by seven at the half, and led by as many as ten before the nation’s eighth highest scoring team [...]
Gambling & Sports: Can a lottery save Alabama baseball? Is point shaving at Auburn a sign of gambling’s influence on the culture?
When Alabama Crimson Tide Coach Nick Saban says something, people listen. If anyone knows how to build a program and run an athletic department, then it must be the Alabama football coach. Saban has three BCS National Championships (one at LSU, two at Alabama). He is at the pinnacle of college football today. With Alabama’s [...]
The Roots of Clay’s Rage
Why 2011 was annus horribilis for Clay Travis: Tennessee fan and Internet douche Clay Travis attempted to hurt Alabama with scurrilous gossip, lies, and innuendo. He ended up looking like a fool. It was icing on the cake of another national title year for Alabama and Crimson Tide fans.
A new and extreme way to get fit
This post brought to you by Spartan Race. All opinions are 100% mine. “From the couch to the finish line in 45 days” is the promise of Spartan Race. Spartan Race is a new way to do fitness that harkens back to the toughness of the ancient Greeks led by the likes of Sparata and [...]
Bama to face Creighton in its first NCAA appearance since 2006
The NCAA committee has spoken, and the 2011-2012 Alabama Crimson Tide has done enough to gain entry into the game’s most prestigious tournament. Alabama was tabbed as a 9 seed in the Midwest Regional where it faces 8th seed Creighton (28-5) this Friday. Game time is slated for 12:40pm CDT televised by TBS. The Tide’s [...]
Forgive my “football mindset”, but I wanted more from this Bama basketball team
There’s a new buzzword going around. It’s a term coined by basketball purists used to posture themselves when the performance of their team is called into question. The term? “Football mindset.” Let me use it in context for you: Person 1: “I can’t believe the egg Alabama just laid in Oxford. This team won’t go [...]
FOOTBALL: Should the SEC go to a 9-game league schedule?
There is a steady stream of media members lobbying the SEC for a nine-game conference schedule. On the surface, the request is reasonable. Fans want better games than Alabama vs. Northwest-Southeastern Tech State. AL.com columnist Tommy Hicks used his column today to argue for this change. According to Hicks, the expanded SEC football schedule would [...]
ALABAMA FOOTBALL: AJC’s Carvell continues war on Nick Saban
The news that Alabama Crimson Tide football coach Nick Saban would offer four-year scholarships disappointed SEC rivals—just read Auburn fan’s weeping and gnashing of teeth over at the Bunker or turn to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. In the AJC, recruiting savant Michael Carvell composed a blog post seeking comment on Alabama’s new scholarship policy. It [...]
Hindsight still 20/20 to some bloggers about this Bama basketball team
When the blogosphere came on the internet scene, it opened up a new realm for people who wanted to appear smart. We’ve all come across the nerd in the chatroom or forum who’d have us believe he’s big and bad, hammering out anonymous boasts like there’s no tomorrow. Heck, you’re reading this now because you [...]
The Atlanta crusade against Nick Saban and Alabama
Excessively rough football. That was the one of the first volleys fired against Alabama by the Atlanta sportswriters concerned about how dominate Alabama had become in the land of Southern football. Alabama’s tough coach wasn’t up to the panty-wearing, progressive thinking of the New South’s newspaper of record and its libel-writing sports reporter Furman Bisher. [...]
Leadership “Clinic” taking place in Tuscaloosa right now
Hundreds of books have been written on the subject. Countless seminars and speakers travel the speaking circuit talking to businesses, corporations and organizational associations about it. But if someone wants to learn about leadership, they could save some money and just turn their eyes toward Tuscaloosa. This is not an article boasting about the successes [...]
Grant suspensions the right move, but at the wrong time
As the Crimson Tide’s 2011-2012 basketball season careens out of control, seemingly toward the cliff, one has to applaude Alabama head basketball coach Anthony Grant for his moves to regain control of his team. After all as it’s been said, a team will never rise above its level of leadership, and this team seems to [...]
Alabama whips Auburn, again, in another sport
AUBURN, AL – Little brother got schooled again Tuesday night by the Crimson Tide in another sport, on its own campus, in its own house, as Anthony Grant led his team to a decisive 68-50 victory over the Auburn Tigers. The win was Bama’s fourth straight over Auburn, and second in a row in Auburn [...]
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 so without one of its leading scorers. And I for one am elated. Alabama head basketball coach Anthony Grant announced yesterday that Tony Mitchell had been suspended indefinitely for conduct detrimental to the team. Grant [...]
Darius Philon story just another attempt by the media to attack that mean ole Nick Saban
In the never ending effort to try and besmirch the good name of Alabama head coach Nick Saban, the latest soup du jour among the media and Crimson Tide detractors involves former Alabama commitment and current Arkansas signee Darius Philon. An Alabama commmitment from September, Philon never took another visit. But as Mike Herndon of [...]
Auburn’s lunatic fringe displays its hypocrisy
The Never To Yield Foundation is right—all Alabama fans are rude and evil. We are sinners. It is too bad we can’t be model Christians like all those Auburn men and women. Christians like those men of the Auburn Creed on the football team who committed armed robbery (link); or like a coach’s wife who [...]
Izzy Gould, B’ham News bashes Alabama once again (updated)
Two days before National Signing Day, Izzy Gould, a beat writer for The Birmingnam News continues his assault on UA athletics. If you remember, it was Gould who held hands with Paul Finebaum wannabe Kevin Scarbinsky last summer in the “T-Town Menswear” story, one of the biggest non-stories in the history of Alabama reporting. That [...]
“Entitled” Bama loses…again
Columbia, SC – The Alabama Crimson Tide basketball team continued its downward spiral Wednesday night with a 56-54 loss on the road at South Carolina, a team that had not won an SEC contest until sharing the court with Alabama. It would be Alabama’s fourth consecutive loss as Bama’s once promising 2011-2012 season continues its [...]
Auburn hits homerun with new offensive coordinator; Gene Chizik making the right offseason moves
Auburn fans take heart! Don’t let Alabama fans tell you that new Auburn offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler is a downgrade from Gus Malzahn. That simply isn’t true. Loeffler is a homerun that will work in conjunction with other important actions taken by Auburn head coach Gene Chizik to put Auburn back on the path to [...]
Has Anthony Grant lost this Bama team?
At halftime of last night’s Crimson Tide basketball game against the Vanderbilt Commodores, former Alabama head coach Gene Stallings presented junior offensive lineman Barrett Jones with the Sportsmanship Award from the Awards and Recognition Association. And that was the lone highlight of the evening. For the eigth straight contest, Vandy defeated the Tide basketball team, [...]
“Tea bagging” incident a snapshot of all that’s wrong in sports
By now you’ve at least heard about the infamous “tea bagging” incident in the Krystal Hamburger Restaurant on Bourbon Street. You’ve probably even seen it as a passed out LSU fan is taunted by Alabama fans, even to the point that one fan removes his package from his pants and rubs his manhood on the [...]
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 the Alabama baseball team invented new and creative ways of being terrible this season, the city of Hoover will feel the brunt of their malfeasance with lower than normal revenue over the week and weekend. [...]