Ronni and Lennox Vinson, 6-year-old twin sisters from Highland Home, were honorary coin-toss team captains for the Class 3A championship football game Thursday at 11 a.m. at Birmingham’s Protective Stadium. It’s the 25th consecutive year that kids and families from Children’s of Alabama have been honored before each of the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s […]

Don’t call the NBA G League a minor league. Don’t call the Birmingham Squadron – one of three expansion franchises starting play in 2021-2022, bringing the number of franchises to an all-time high of 30 – a minor league team. That’s the message from the top of the organization. “This isn’t minor to us,” said Gayle Benson, owner of […]

Fun fact about new Auburn football coach Bryan Harsin: He is one of only two head coaches in the Southeastern Conference who never spent a day in the SEC as a player or a coach before taking his current job. The other, Kentucky’s Mark Stoops, didn’t travel quite as far to get here. He prepped for three years as […]

Nick Saban knows you want to know what he thinks. About the prospect of COVID-19 disrupting another college football season. Name, image and likeness rights for college athletes. The revolving door on the transfer portal thanks to the one-time free transfer rule. Winning a poll-era record seven national championships, six of the past 12, including the 2020 […]

David Lane has a secret. Make that secrets. Plural. Like the name, logo and team colors of the New Orleans Pelicans‘ new G League franchise coming to Birmingham for the 2021-22 season. You can ask for the details, but the general manager won’t tell. Patience, young grasshoppers. Wait. Is that it? Grasshoppers? Starting a franchise from scratch isn’t […]

In Alabama, we know what it means to be called a champion. It means you’ve accomplished something special. Add Alabama’s own CoachSafely Foundation to this state’s distinguished roster of champions.