Capstone Report

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 [...]

The fiasco of Dale Earnhardt, Jr. fans throwing trash at Jeff Gordon on Sunday has led to a news cycle bashing NASCAR and by implication, Alabama. According to the media, race fans=rednecks and that equates to an indictment of Alabama (the state and fans.) It was another black eye for us. Talladega race officials attempted [...]

Roll Bama Roll was on top of the NFL draft this weekend with a complete run down of the first round and information on the three Alabama players taken on the second day: Le’Ron McClain to Baltimore, Ken Darby to Tampa and Ramzee Robinson to Detroit. As always, best wishes as these guys move to [...]

It has become cool to ridicule the former Hoover Buc QB. Callers on talk radio and some commentators have said Wilson isn’t a good quarterback or is just average, and doesn’t have the skills of other prominent SEC signal callers. But what do the numbers say? As a sophomore, Wilson was 216-of-379 for 2,707 yards, [...]

Big Red Network analyzed attendance at spring practices from around the country. Five teams had attendance over 50,000 at the spring scrimmage; 23 schools had over 15,000. Here’s a chart from Big Red: Big Red goes on to examine the Spring Game as a recruiting tool. Very good stuff. And people who think the spring [...]

With Paul Finebaum’s prediction of 7-5 for the 2007 Crimson Tide, I decided to look at the schedule and compare notes. Here goes: 
Sept. 1: Western Carolina —Win. 
Sept. 8: at Vanderbilt —Win 
Sept. 15: Arkansas —Win; however, Houston Nutt is a good coach and Arkansas is always dangerous. 
Sept. 22: Georgia—Loss 
Sept. 29: Florida [...]

Jerry Duncan will be inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame June 3, reports Bamamag.com. Sure, Duncan was a football player at the University, but I’ll always remember him as the animated sideline reporter for the radio broadcasts. Recruiting One of the major ways Nick Saban communicated with recruits when he arrived at Alabama [...]

John Feinstein on today’s Paul Finebaum radio program showed everything that is wrong with modern American liberalism. Feinstein went off on the Second Amendment and said we didn’t need the right to bear arms anymore since the modern world has change. He argued it was an historic anachronism. Advertisement: (Story continues below) Unfortunately, Feinstein doesn’t [...]

I’ve found a new must-read blog regarding Alabama sports: Dennis Pillion, a new sports producer at al.com, wrote an informative piece on the Saban issue. Some of the best lines: hat kind of criticism hits closer to the mark than the moronic rantings of The Montgomery Advertiser’s Josh Moon, who decided to play shock jock [...]

The media attack on Nick Saban drew a response from the coach Thursday. A member of the media admitted many sportswriters are jerks. But to be fair, many coaches are too. I’ve been very rough on the media’s coverage of Saban because in most instances, covering college athletics is an easy job compared to what [...]

What day is it? Whatever the day, it is time for more anti-Saban attacks from the national media. I really should begin by saying I dislike any restrictions on media access. I think it does a disservice to the fans and the football team. Players, assistant coaches and others should be available to the media—in [...]

It didn’t take long for an Alabama sports reporter to attack Nick Saban. In the Montgomery Advertiser, Josh Moon performs a hatchet job on Saban over the Alabama coach’s media policy. Advertisement: STORY CONTINUES BELOW Apparently, Saban doesn’t speak to the media enough or make the players available enough in Moon’s opinion. And Moon couldn’t [...]

The scrimmage today marks the halfway point for Alabama’s spring practice. The scrimmage should help the coaching staff determine the depth chart heading into the A-Day game on April 21. The team went through a two-hour practice session Thursday getting ready for the scrimmage. The practice was in helmets and pads. Saban did not speak [...]

TUSCALOOSA—Aristotle said that a man is what he habitually does. For the last few seasons, Alabama’s football players haven’t been hard workers in conditioning or on the practice field. The players (and past coachers) were complacent. And Nick Saban can’t change years of neglect and incompetence and complacency in one night. At least that was [...]

Last year’s dismal offensive performance had Alabama at ninth in the SEC in scoring and rushing, sixth in passing and eighth in total offense. This poor situation has the present coaching staff trying to match the scheme to the talent, according to the Mobile Press-Register. Offensive coordinator Major Applewhite explained the situation to the Mobile [...]