Last night’s 58-57 loss in the NIT closed another painful chapter in Alabama basketball history. Ironically, it’d be the second year in a row that the Tide’s season was ended in the post-season by that score. (Creighton last year in the NCAA’s, Maryland this year in the NIT). The mood among the Alabama fanbase in [...]
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Anthony Grant a Minnesota Golden Gopher?
Can you imagine, even for a second, the University of Alabama firing its head basketball coach after he led the Tide into the second round of the NCAA Tournament? Or got them into the big dance every other year? That’s exactly what happened at the University of Minnesota, as the Golden Gophers let their head [...]
Is Harvey Updyke’s sentence too harsh? The answer is in your Sunday Cup of Coffee: 3/24/13
What a difference a week makes. This time last week we couldn’t rest worrying about what would happen to the murderer of Auburn’s beloved Toomer’s Corner trees. Now, 7 days later, we know his fate. The two year long saga with Harvey Updyke is finally over over. Updyke was sentenced to six-months jail time, and [...]
BREAKING: Mal Moore resigns as UA Athletics Director
The University of Alabama is reporting that Mal Moore will resign as the Director of Athletics at the University “due to factors related to his health.” Coach Moore’s health has deteriorated in recent years, though the true Bama man has served as a walking legacy to Alabama athletics. The most recent stint has been pulmonary [...]
Your Sunday Cup of Coffee: 3/17/13
Bama football took to the practice fields yesterday as spring practice began. The 2013 season kicks off against the Hokies in 157 days. There were storylines introduced all over the field, including some experimentation of moving a few offensive players to the defensive side of the ball (Christion Jones got a look at cornerback, for [...]
What’s next for Bama Basketball? Here’s a hint…
Tonight at 9:00pm on ESPNU, be sure to tune in to see who the Alabama Crimson Tide will be playing in the first round of the NIT, and if Andrew Steele will have the opportunity for another home game if the Tide plays host. Don’t bother tuning in to that boring show tomorrow night, where [...]
Your Sunday cup of coffee: 3/10/13
As we wake up this Sunday morning, much is brewing, but none funnier than Auburn athletics. With yesterday’s loss at Mississippi State, Auburn has successfully finished dead last in the SEC in football and basketball in the same year. Auburn Athletics Director Jay Jacobs must be proud. Kevin Scarbinsky writes that the top man in [...]
FAN REVIEW: Arkansas––A passionate group of pigs
We’re wrapping up a three-week journey examining the fanbases of each of the fourteen SEC schools. Friday was Florida. Today we shed our dignity, put on our hog hats and cross the Mississippi into Arkansas. There are some funny mascots out there. There’s the Spiders. The Boilermakers. The Cornhuskers…literally a mascot of a farmer who [...]
Hilarious new video surfaces of Auburn preparation
Barners will be barners. I ran across a hilarious video this morning illustrating more of the bush-league tactics of our little brothers. Every good cult needs a propaganda video to convince the brethren that they are on the right path. This one, released by the Auburn Athletic Department…not a fan, mind you…is simply entitled, “February [...]
Four current Bama players throw their futures away
Alabama football coach Nick Saban suspends players. Updates and analysis of this developing story.
FAN REVIEW: The very, very odd Texas A&M fan
We’re on a three week journey examining the fanbases of each of the fourteen SEC schools. Yesterday was Alabama; today our next stop is College Station. Everybody has that one family member who’s just a strange bird. You know, the odd uncle you have to warn your girlfriend about when she’s about to meet him [...]
Siran Stacy continues to offer hope to the hopeless
Siran Stacy was an explosive running back who burst on the scene for the Crimson Tide in 1989. An instant impact player, Stacy’s break away speed and agility made him a two year starter and All-SEC performer. But it isn’t that ability he’s best known for today. Rather, the former Bama great is better known [...]
Reuben Foster’s father arrested; Foster saved in more ways than one
Reports today surfaced today that Reuben Foster’s father was arrested today in Dania Beach, Florida, an area just north of Miami. It’s there Danny Foster has been on the lam from police, working odd jobs. Danny Foster has been wanted for shooting an 18-month old Reuben Foster in 1995, and his mother, Anita Berry Paige. [...]
RECRUITING UPDATE: Saving Reuben Foster (Updated)
With national signing day now just two days away, the madness will soon be tucked away for another year. Every year we think we’ve seen it all, then every year we’re amazed all over again. Two years ago Brent Calloway’s recruitment stole the show. The long-time Bama commit turned to Auburn via an apparent high [...]
RECRUITING: Ole Miss doing a GREAT job at recruiting this year (Updated)
Ole Miss is doing an incredible job of recruiting this year. Whenever you see a middle of the pack team suddenly come into its own on the recruiting trail, it doesn’t raise any suspicions at all. After all, top recruits who want to make a living playing professional football one day very often choose to [...]
Is Kirby Smart going to the Eagles?
Where is Kirby Smart going this week? It seems that’s the question of the day, most days. It’s almost become comical. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution sport editor got the latest rumor started today with this tweet: But that’s the problem with Twitter. Instant news is neat-o. But as we reported with the Manti Te’o debacle two [...]
RECRUITING UPDATE: New Tiders ready to move in as Bama bids greats farewell
With just under three weeks to go until National Signing Day, Alabama head coach Nick Saban is in the mix to sign the nation’s top recruiting class, again. The team that won back-to-back National Championships loses just thirteen contributors (not necessarily starters), including underclassmen Dee Milliner, DJ Fluker and Eddie Lacy. Many mock drafts project [...]
Manti Te’o story proves journalism today is dead
The news of Manti Te’o’s girlfriend fabrication has reached epic proportions, with jokes flying off the shelf faster than David Letterman’s best days in the days of Dan Quayle. Some of my favorites so far: “Two people that will never know the touch of Manti Te’o: His fake girlfriend, and Eddie Lacy.” “Te’o faked her [...]
‘Bama routes Notre Dame to win (another) BCS National Championship
In a game billed as the biggest BCS Championship game of all-time, the Alabama Crimson Tide shredded what was supposed to be an impenatrable Notre Dame defense for 529 yards and six touchdowns. This from a team, remember (and how can we forget), that had only given up nine defensive touchdowns on the year. Didn’t [...]
Debunking a few myths heading into the BCS Title Game
As the days, hours, and minutes begin winding down, leading us to Monday night’s BCS showdown, the nation begins wondering what to do with the remaining time. Too much time on their hands has led to every theory, hypothesis and prediction under the sun involving Notre Dame v. Alabama. LSU, Mississippi State and Florida soiling [...]
REPORT: All NFL teams with openings have inquired, Saban says “No”
CBSSports.com’s Mike Freeman writes today that NFL franchises have inquired about Nick Saban’s services, but that the answer returned is “no.” “NFL teams that have been inquiring about Alabama coach Nick Saban in recent days and weeks have been told in no uncertain terms: thanks, but no thanks. “At least so far. Some franchises with [...]
University of Alabama gives up basketball to focus more on football
In an unprecedented move, the University of Alabama Athletics Department has apparently given up basketball as a University sanctioned, organized sport in order to focus entirely on football. How else can you explain the Crimson Tide’s performance this season in Anthony Grant’s fourth year at the Capstone? After starting 6-0, Bama now sits at 7-5 [...]
Nick Saban says he’s ready for the next challenge
“I don’t know where all this stuff [about the NFL] comes from. When I say I’m looking for the next challenge, it’s the next challenge here and the next challenge with our team next year here. This is where we want to be and what we’re happy doing.” -Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban ESPN’s Chris [...]
BREAKING: SEC won’t suspend Quinton Dial for hit on Aaron Murray
The SEC Office has spoken, and Alabama’s Quinton Dial will play January 7th when the Tide faces Notre Dame in the BCS National Championship Game in Miami. Here is the official statement from the SEC: “The Southeastern Conference has completed its review of video from the 2012 SEC Football Championship Game. Several plays involving both [...]
Is Nick Saban leaving Alabama? Six reasons that answer is “No.”
Well, the season has been played, the awards been given, and the heralded Heisman has been assigned to a new recipient. It’s not quite the silly season…the period between the end of recruiting and the beginning of fall camp. But it’s close. This time of year doesn’t really have a name. It’s the time between [...]
Tide leads the land with four named as 1st Team All-Americans
The Alabama Crimson Tide’s list of AP All-Americans has grown by four as Barrett Jones, Chance Warmack, C.J. Mosely and Dee Milliner all added their names for the 2012 campaign. The Crimson Tide’s four on the AP All-American first team leads the nation. Bama’s D.J. Fluker made 2nd team and A.J. McCarron was named to [...]
An Example to Follow: Alabama’s Barrett Jones
Barrett Jones is about more than football. The Tide’s center now vying for his third BCS National Championship in four years has a foundation taking him far beyond the football field. His foundation is deeper than X’s and O’s. Maybe we can all learn a thing or two from the decorated Tide senior offensive lineman: [...]
Alabama #7 in the Academic BCS; leads the SEC
When you hear Alabama Crimson Tide, you think football factory, right? Well, apparently the team contending for its third BCS National Championship in four years is more than that. According to the “Academic BCS,” the New America Foundation’s annual academic performance rankings of the top-25 college football teams, the Tide ranks seventh in the country [...]
Christmas comes early for Tide fans as Auburn hires Gus Malzahn
On December 4, 2012, the Auburn University football program made a statement, but nobody is sure what it is. It could be “We don’t have a clue what we’re doing.” Or it could be “We want a head coach that we can control.” Or it could be “We asked everybody and literally everybody but one [...]
REVIEW: Birmingham sports talk radio…A barren wasteland with an oasis or two
Birmingham, Alabama is the most crazed college sports city in the nation. Clay Travis is an attention seeker of Jimmy “the Mouth of the South” Hart proportions, but sometimes even a blind narcissistic squirrel finds a nut. Recently his website conducted a compelling study on the most passionate college sports towns in the country. The [...]