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Nick and Terry Saban are using Nick’s Kids Foundation to provide needed job skills to residents of the Tuscaloosa Juvenile Detention Center in hopes it will change lives for the better and break a cycle of repeat offenders. Terry Saban joined center officials and others to cut the ribbon on a new facility built with a $100,000 […]
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University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban will be inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame next year. The announcement was made in a release this week. Saban is being inducted as the former head football coach at Louisiana State University (LSU), where he won 75% of his games and the 2003 national […]
Sept. 13, 1969 Bill France Sr., founder of NASCAR, helped created the Talladega Superspeedway in the late 1960s at a time most major tracks were located along the Atlantic Coast. France wanted a track more centrally located in the Southeast and chose a 2,000-acre site off Interstate 20 near the town of Talladega. Track construction […]
According to a report published Thursday by Forbes, the University of Alabama and Auburn University have two of the top-10 “most valuable” college football programs in the country. The rankings detailed three-year averages for both revenue and profits. “So much for amateur athletics—the sport’s 25 most valuable programs combine to earn an average of $1.5 […]
The Auburn University bass fishing team recently won the first-ever Major League Fishing College Redcrest National Championship, marking another impressive milestone for the most dominant collegiate angling program in the country. The event was held on the Mississippi River in La Crosse, Wisconsin, last month. In a release from the university in recent days, Logan […]
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When Crimson Tide fans travel to Tuscaloosa for football games, they will have a new way of getting information. UA Info Radio is broadcasting on 92.5 FM and streaming through ready.ua.edu, the UA Safety app and the UA Gameday app. “We have one of the best game day experiences in the nation, and UA Info Radio will only make […]
Jacksonville State University’s athletics department this week announced it will implement alcohol sales before and during football games at JSU Stadium’s Burgess-Snow Field beginning with Saturday’s home opener against Chattanooga. Kiosks will be added to the concourse specifically for beer sales. Beer will be sold by trained and licensed servers at five designated points of sales […]
The University of Alabama Department of Athletics announced Friday that it raised a record of more than $106 million in the 2019 Fiscal Year from pledges and gifts to the Crimson Tide Foundation and donations to TIDE PRIDE. The fundraising success, along with the University of Alabama Board of Trustees and presidential approval, allows for […]
Auburn Athletics on Thursday announced it is partnering with Slidr to offer a new game day shuttle service throughout the areas adjacent to Jordan-Hare Stadium this football season. The fare service will take patrons from outside the stadium security barricade boundaries to any location inside that perimeter, including right up to the stadium itself. The […]
Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban said at a press conference this week that his wife, Terry Saban, made him run on a treadmill after he received an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty during last weekend’s game against the Duke Blue Devils. “Miss Terry made me run on the treadmill for 20 minutes,” Saban told reporters. […]
Nick Saban and Bill Belichick are unquestioned sporting legends. However, who they are as individuals goes way beyond the game of football. HBO and NFL Films on Tuesday announced the upcoming premier of a new feature-length documentary on the respective head football coaches of the New England Patriots and the University of Alabama Crimson Tide, “Belichick & Saban: […]
The first regular-season AP college football poll of the year has both the University of Alabama and Auburn University in the top 10. After defeating Duke handily over the Labor Day weekend, the Crimson Tide held onto their preseason ranking as the nation’s second-best team. While coach Nick Saban’s team will have their sights on […]
Auburn University men’s golfer Jovan Rebula is turning heads across the nation heading into the 2019-2020 season. On Friday, the Golf Channel announced that the senior has been chosen to the Haskins Award Watch List. Rebula is one of just 25 golfers in the country to be on this watch list for the most prestigious […]
While it can be hard to claim absolutes, it’s a safe bet that Hani Imam is the biggest Alabama Crimson Tide fan on his street. In his neighborhood. In his city. In his country. It’s a claim that would be hard to make in a place like Tuscaloosa, Birmingham or pretty much any Alabama or […]
Inappropriate adult behavior at high school athletic events in Alabama is a growing concern. When more than 2,000 high school athletic directors were asked in a recent national survey what they like least about their job, 62.3% said it was “dealing with aggressive parents and adult fans.” The men and women who wear the black […]
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Jacksonville State University (JSU) certainly turned some heads with the release of their football program’s hype video this week. The video, which features “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” playing throughout, opens a little, well, differently, than most. In conjunction with the religious music, the opening image of red paint dripping down a dangling arm immediately […]
Retired NASCAR driver Rusty Wallace is thrilled with the renovations happening at Talladega Superspeedway. “I’m overwhelmed in happiness,” Wallace said Wednesday during a tour of the construction. “I’ve been coming to Talladega for a long time. I remember how it looked years ago, and man, it’s just big time. It’s just different. I really appreciate Talladega keeping up with the […]
Former NFL star Michael Vick visited Alabama A&M University in Huntsville on Thursday, speaking to students about how he turned his life around after being infamously imprisoned for approximately 18 months from 2007-2009 due to his involvement in a dog-fighting ring. According to a report by WAFF, Vick stressed the importance of second chances in […]
On Wednesday at the Talladega Superspeedway, former NASCAR great Rusty Wallace, the 1989 champion of the sanctioning body’s premier series, took part in a tour with members of the media that showcased the finishing touches being put in the facility’s “Transformation” renovations with its October fall race weekend fast approaching. The $50 million “Transformation” project […]
The Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) on Tuesday announced that a locally owned, in-state company will broadcast the premier high school sporting events in the Yellowhammer State for the next three years. An agreement has been reached between the AHSAA and PlayOn Sports/the NFHS Network (NFHSN — affiliated with the National Federation of State High […]
The University of Alabama has been ranked as the best college football program over the last 150 years, with Auburn University also representing the Yellowhammer State well. A report by ESPN’s Stats & Information Group used a formula based on the number of national championships, the winning percentage for the best 50 seasons in program […]

