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The biggest birthday party in Alabama’s history is taking place on December 14, and you are invited! Join us in Montgomery for the grand finale celebration of our state’s 200th birthday. Watch the parade, listen to concerts and performances, visit open houses and much more. This is sure to be a day you don’t want […]
Nine yards. That’s the amount of offense LSU quarterback Joe Burrow generated per game more than Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts this season. That’s it. Picking up a mere 27 extra feet each game, Burrow is now the prohibitive favorite to win the Heisman Trophy.
The Alabama Association of Justice will conclude its Courthouse Appreciation Tour and Social next week in Tuscaloosa. The Association and its members invite all courthouse employees and judicial staff to celebrate 230 years of the Seventh Amendment guaranteeing the right to a civil jury trial. Join us for fun and refreshments in Tuscaloosa County on […]
The biggest birthday party in Alabama’s history is taking place on December 14, and you are invited! Join us in Montgomery for the grand finale celebration of our state’s 200th birthday. Watch the parade, listen to concerts and performances, visit open houses and much more. This is sure to be a day you don’t want […]
Gus Malzahn’s staff got a lot stronger on Tuesday. The Auburn head coach announced that he has hired Chad Morris as offensive coordinator, according to a release from the team. Morris, a native of Dallas, Texas, most recently served as head coach at Arkansas and SMU. Previous to those tenures, he coordinated record-breaking offenses at […]
The Alabama Association of Justice will conclude its Courthouse Appreciation Tour and Social next week in Tuscaloosa. The Association and its members invite all courthouse employees and judicial staff to celebrate 230 years of the Seventh Amendment guaranteeing the right to a civil jury trial. Join us for fun and refreshments in Tuscaloosa County on […]
Kirk Herbstreit provided some fascinating behind-the-scenes insight into Tua Tagovailoa’s approach to football and life on a recent edition of the ESPN College Football Podcast. Herbstreit assessed what he thinks Tua’s chances to return to the Crimson Tide are based on his interview which aired on ESPN last week.
Another college football regular season is in the books, and the conference for which it simply matters more has the top-ranked team in the playoff. Bowl prep will soon begin for the league’s nine teams playing in the postseason, and the early signing period is less than 10 days away. So now seems like as […]
The biggest birthday party in Alabama’s history is taking place on December 14, and you are invited! Join us in Montgomery for the grand finale celebration of our state’s 200th birthday. Watch the parade, listen to concerts and performances, visit open houses and much more. This is sure to be a day you don’t want […]
The matchups for the college football playoff are set, and Jalen Hurts is back in Atlanta to face No. 1 LSU. Hurts’ No. 4 Sooners are set to take on the Bayou Tigers in the Peach Bowl on December 28 in the first round of the playoffs. No. 2 Ohio State takes on No. 3 […]
The biggest birthday party in Alabama’s history is taking place on December 14, and you are invited! Join us in Montgomery for the grand finale celebration of our state’s 200th birthday. Watch the parade, listen to concerts and performances, visit open houses and much more. This is sure to be a day you don’t want […]
The College Football Playoff Committee announced its final regular season rankings Tuesday night. The Auburn Tigers came in at No. 11, while the Alabama Crimson Tide fell to No. 12. Here are three takeaways: 1. Auburn should be ranked higher. Gus Malzahn’s Tigers defeated Alabama in the 84th edition of the Iron Bowl rivalry on […]
It’s only December, but the Auburn men’s basketball team has started out hot. The Tigers are 7-0 with the opportunity to stack several more wins before conference play starts in January. This early season success has caught the eye of ESPN’s NCAA tournament expert, Joe Lunardi.
Auburn head football coach Gus Malzahn has received coach of the week honors from the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Foundation after Malzahn led his Tigers to a 48-45 upset win over in-state rival No. 5 Alabama on Saturday. The foundation memorializes the career and legacy of famed Georgia Tech head coach Bobby Dodd, […]
The No. 5 Alabama Crimson Tide fell to No. 15 Auburn on Saturday in the 85th edition of the in-state rivalry. Here are some quick postgame takeaways: Big Picture: Not that anyone needed a reminder, but Tua Tagovailoa is a generational player. The two pick sixes thrown by quarterback Mac Jones were so big, even […]
The 85th edition of the Iron Bowl was a wild game from start to finish, with the No. 15 Auburn Tigers ultimately taking down the No. 5 Alabama Crimson Tide. Here are some quick postgame takeaways: Big picture: Earlier this week, we wrote about the fact Malzahn was among the nation’s elite coaches. This game […]
Thursday was the day everyone remembered why they were thankful. But Friday has become the day symbolizing everything we take for granted. So let’s join the crowds. Although, rather than get into a fist fight over a big screen TV, let’s talk about something else people take for granted: having a top-shelf college football coach.
Golden Flake is a familiar brand for Alabamians, proudly woven into the state’s culture as a homegrown success story. Its potato chips — ever-present on the set of Paul “Bear” Bryant’s coach’s show, along with a Coca-Cola — were known for being part of the slogan “a great pair, says the Bear.” Throughout the years, […]
Howell T. Heflin pursued his illustrious career in public service with uncommon integrity. In a time of war, on the bench and representing his state in Washington, Heflin sought to discern what was wrong and fight for what was right. During his time in the United States Senate, colleagues and observers often described him as […]
The college football playoff committee announced its latest rankings, and this week may have revealed more about the committee’s thinking than any other so far. The SEC placed three teams in the top 10 with LSU at No. 2, Georgia at No. 4 and Alabama at No. 5. The committee ranked the Auburn Tigers No. […]
The Alabama Association for Justice (ALAJ) this week held four events across the southern half of the state as part of its series celebrating the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution. ALAJ, one of the state’s largest legal organizations, marked the occasion of the 230th anniversary of the introduction of the Bill of Rights with events […]
OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — A judge ordered DNA testing Wednesday for a man suspected in the kidnapping of an Alabama college student missing since last month. Lee County District Judge Russell Bush granted a prosecution request to force Ibraheem Yazeed to submit DNA, which prosecutors said they wanted because male DNA was found in the […]
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has given athletic director Greg Byrne a raise and one-year contract extension. The university’s board of trustees compensation committee approved the new deal Tuesday. Byrne will make $1.3 million this year in the deal which dates back to July 1. That will go up to $1.54 million in the final […]

