Mel Kiper Jr. called Tua Tagovailoa the most intriguing player in the upcoming NFL Draft. Kiper, the NFL Draft analyst from ESPN, released his NFL Mock Draft 3.0 on Tuesday and fielded questions from media during a teleconference today. Easily, the player about whom the most questions swirl is the Heisman Trophy runner-up whose season was cut short […]

You couldn’t blame B.A.S.S. CEO Bruce Akin if he lobbied to make Birmingham the permanent host of its flagship event – the Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic presented by Huk. Personally, Akin would be very comfortable with that move. “I would love that,” the Homewood resident said. “I could stay in my own bed […]

The oft-told joke is that you have to pick a side when you arrive in this state. You’re either for Alabama, someone will say, or you’re for Auburn. More than 200 people gathered as one team Feb. 21 at The Club in Birmingham. They weren’t divided by Roll Tide and War Eagle, although each battle cry could […]

Appalachian State has made its reputation as a giant-killer in college football, including what’s been called the greatest upset in history – its 2007 34-32 victory over Michigan when the Mountaineers were still an FCS program. These days, App State is among the giants. It is No. 20 in the College Football Playoff ranking, is a two-time champion of the Sun […]

Thursday, on the campus of Miles College, Charles Barkley was the very thing he said years ago that he wasn’t. He was a role model. Barkley, voted one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA history, spoke during a Miles College pep rally. But the Round Mound of Rebound’s message was less about rooting on the Golden […]

When teams score 13 runs in a baseball game, you might say they are lighting up the scoreboard. Unless you’re talking about Wednesday’s 23rd annual Rickwood Classic game, in which the Montgomery Biscuits beat the Birmingham Barons 9-4. The high-scoring contest didn’t light up the scoreboard at Rickwood Field because the scoring on the board beyond the outfield fence isn’t kept by electrically […]

Lou Piniella recalled spending one year as a student at the University of Tampa, where he played basketball and baseball. “I saw I wasn’t going to be a Rhodes scholar in college,” Piniella said, “so I signed (a baseball contract) after my freshman season.” Piniella, 75, would go on to play 1,700 games and manage 3,000 […]

Nick Saban had just told nearly 2,200 people how he ultimately became a football coach when Jeremiah Brown stepped to the microphone, asking Saban’s inspiration to be a coach. Rather than repeating his earlier comments, Saban ultimately provided the 10-year-old member of Boy Scout Troop 478 with some advice.

Lori Locust just wants to be one of the guys. Specifically, she wants to be one of the guys coaching a pro football team. After beginning the inaugural season of the Alliance of American Football as the defensive line coach of the Birmingham Iron, Locust recently stepped into a bigger spotlight as an assistant coach with the National Football […]

Beth Monson sounded a four-fingered whistle as her daughter Alicia Monson rounded the track Friday night at the Birmingham CrossPlex. The mother of the Wisconsin junior said she tried to remain calm as Alicia competed in the women’s 5,000 meters. But that didn’t last, especially as Alicia advanced through the lead pack on her way to […]

Chandler Hoffman has played soccer since he was 5 years old and has experienced the opening of soccer seasons for more than two decades. But Sunday’s beginning is so much more for the Oak Mountain High product. It is the first United Soccer League game ever for the new Birmingham Legion, which hosts the Bethlehem Steel FC at 4 p.m. on BBVA Compass […]

Allen Greene had it all figured out. “My plan was to be a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player,” he said. “I had that plan in high school, which is why, when I got to college, I majored in finance because I wanted to manage my money. And I knew I was gonna have […]

Cut Day is a painful day on a pro football team, and Tim Lewis knows that as well as anybody. The 57-year-old has been on the staffs of football teams – either as an assistant or as a coordinator – for 30 seasons. Twenty-two of those seasons were in the pro ranks, where men’s hopes […]

A press conference that would have protested the move of UAB Medical West to Hoover became a celebration as the hospital announced plans to build on property it owns in McCalla. “UAB Medical West has been at its present site since 1964, 54 years,” Bessemer Mayor Kenneth Gulley said. “If this site is no longer […]

Mary Laslie Pike doesn’t play football, but the 10-year-old from Homewood is among 100 youngsters whose names will be on the backs of UAB football players’ jerseys as they host the second installment of their Children’s Harbor Game. The contest, which highlights children served by Children’s Harbor, will be the Blazers’ Oct. 20 game against […]

The fact Montaeus Bell was standing before the 2018 graduating class of Montgomery’s Park Crossing High School was remarkable. “Me only being 20, two years removed from school, what do I really have to say?” Bell pondered. “Then, thinking of my story, I have a lot to say.” Bell began by recounting the 2015 fatal […]

John Zimmerman IV says he wears his emotions on his sleeve. They were never more apparent than they were recently as he spoke at the  Homewood Grown fundraiser for Homewood schools. “There are certain trigger points that just overwhelm me,” the Homewood native said. “I hold dear to what people do, how they support you. I […]

When it comes to the Barber Motorsports Park and Museum, Birmingham has few rivals. “We can do this or that and we’ll have to compete with Atlanta or Nashville or Memphis because they have the same sort of thing,” Don Erwin said, recalling the words of founder George Barber. “’I want to do something for Birmingham […]