miscellaneous

By Hunter Ford From The Western Star UAB’s football team went 2-10 last year, draws less fans than flies, and after learning that it will… Read More »UAB football: cooked goose or ugly duckling?

By Hunter Ford It’s a story made for movies: An underdog filly defies the odds and places second in the Kentucky Derby. Then tragedy strikes… Read More »Is horse racing noble or barbaric?

By Hunter Ford With a blank white page burning my eyes, I decided to go to the Internet, as I often do, to help me… Read More »The good, bad, and ugly of football uniforms

By Hunter Ford Last week, sports talk radio in Birmingham took up a topic close to my heart- the tradition of University of Alabama football.… Read More »Bama tradition didn’t start or end with Bryant

Editor’s note: Hunter’s shared some photographs from A-Day. Click here to see them in our A-Day gallery. By Hunter Ford Alabama head football coach Nick… Read More »Hunter: Saban looking for hunting dogs

Note: These columns were originally written for the Hoover Gazette last year.  I visited with former Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley in the summer of… Read More »Hunter Ford’s conversation with Bill Baxley

For those who read Hunter Ford’s columns, Ford will appear on Alabama Public Television’s For the Record with Tim Lennox tonight (Friday, March 21) at… Read More »Off topic: Hunter on APTV

Real sport to fill football off-season is played on the radio By Hunter Ford You can read more from Hunter Ford at his blog Alagonzo.blogspot.com.… Read More »Hunter Ford: On Finebaum and the off-season

By Hunter FordYou can read this and more of Hunter’s writings at his new blog Alagonzo. Last year Alabama football fanatics lost their collective minds… Read More »Creative ideas could make spring really fantastic

The guy who played Bear Bryant: ‘The truth requires no questions.’ Saban: ‘It is what it is! No more questions!’ By Hunter Ford editor’s note:… Read More »Hunter Ford: Pay Attention to the Light

Alabama fans will take any national championship they can get By Hunter Ford Alabama’s football program has been declared the recruiting national champions and Tide… Read More »Fans will take any national championship