Carolyn Mae Wright’s induction into the Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame carries an historical distinction. She joins her husband, Bobby Wright, to become the second husband-wife members of the prestigious group of individuals enshrined. They follow Tom and Lenette Calvin who were inducted in 1991 and 1992, respectively. Wright is being inducted as a member […]

The city of Notasulga went the extra mile, sort of, to honor former Notasulga High Coach Ronnie Sikes’ impact on the small Macon County town. The City Council renamed a street Sikes-Taylor Loop for the much-loved football coach. Sikes had two stints as a coach at Notasulga, one as an assistant and the other as a head coach, with […]

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 […]

For Alabama’s Xtreme Concepts Racing Team, heavy are the trophies when they start running out of hands to hold them. That was the enviable problem for team owner Landon Ash when he went back to victory lane for the second week in a row in NASCAR’s Xfinity Series.

Last year, track officials at Talladega Superspeedway announced they were putting $50 million toward an infield renovation that would upgrade the existing offerings to put in place an area that will allow fans to experience the sport from a different perspective. Immediately after last October’s event, the track broke ground on a 6-foot-8-inch-tall, 28-foot-wide, 208-foot-long tunnel […]

The Hoover Met Complex knocked the ball out of the park in 2018, bringing in $14.86 million in total economic impact from out-of-town visitors and local events. The sports tourism complex in Hoover, operated by Sports Facilities Management (SFM), hosted more than 1,700 teams, 22,000 athletes and coaches, and 48,000 spectators at traditional and nontraditional sports events. There have […]

The following is the second in an 11-part series featuring members of the 2019 class of the Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame. When Brantley High School hired David Lowery as a football coach and mathematics teacher, it quickly added up to be a successful formula. Ten of his 14 teams at Brantley won 11 or […]

The following is the first in an 11-part series featuring members of the 2019 class of the Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame. Little did Claborn M. Campbell realize that something as simple as coaching track and field could have such a resounding impact on others’ lives. The veteran Cold Springs High School track […]

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 […]

Xtreme Concepts Racing owner Landon Ash had been in victory lane as a guest of Kyle Busch’s following the popular driver’s win in Charlotte last year. Less than a year later, Ash got back into victory lane with Busch, but this time he did not need a guest pass. This time Ash was there as […]

Thom Gossom Jr. is an actor whose credits include the “Fight Club” movie and “In the Heat of the Night” television series. Gossom also owns the public relations and communication firm Best Gurl Entertainment. He has even written a trio of books of short stories, “A Slice of Life,” “Another Slice of Life” and “The Rest of the Pie,” along with the autobiographical “Walk-On: My Reluctant Journey to […]

Birmingham Iron safety Max Redfield was appalled when he saw the initial Vegas odds. Heading into the inaugural season of The Alliance of American Football, the Iron were given the longest odds to win the championship. Redfield, the team and the coaches all stored it away as bulletin-board material.

Xtreme Concepts Racing and its iK9 car recently enjoyed its highest-ever finish in NASCAR’s Xfinity Series. Driver Jeffrey Earnhardt took the iK9 car to a sixth-place finish at the Rinnai 250 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday. This top-10 came after his 15th place finish at Daytona, a race in which he led the first […]

This weekend, Jay Spencer became the first wrestler in his school’s history to win a state title. And even more impressively, he did so while being legally blind. “[D]on’t let what anyone thinks about you change how you think,” Spencer told WZDX. “As long as you believe you can do something, then you can.” Spencer, a […]

Trent Richardson never played a snap inside Legion Field before Sunday afternoon, but he had experienced joy there. Prior to the rebirth of his football career with The Alliance of American Football’s Birmingham Iron, Richardson was just a football dad in the stands, watching his son Trent Richardson Jr. playing youth football at Legion just a few months ago. […]

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 […]

The Paul W. Bryant Museum will close temporarily for renovations beginning Friday, Feb. 1. The renovations include facility updates and a new interactive video wall that will allow visitors to access museum databases for all of Bryant’s teams. “We are excited to modernize our display while keeping true to Coach Bryant’s wish to honor all his teams […]

On Friday night, the late Davey Allison will be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, N.C., joining his father Bobby Allison, who was inducted in 2011. Long before NASCAR “teams” dominated the upper echelon of the sport, Davey and Bobby Allison, along with drivers Donnie Allison, Neil Bonnett, Red Farmer and others, made […]

University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban has added a new type of adversary to his list of victories: the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Tax Court ruled on Thursday that Saban will get to claim a bad-debt deduction that the federal government tried to deny him. […]

While the national media loves to portray University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban as a bit of a grouch, the truth is that Saban’s historic on-the-field success has come in part due to how he treats his players off-the-field. The coaching legend recently spoke about his leadership philosophy at the American Football Coaches […]

Construction of a new oversized vehicle tunnel and premium RV infield parking section at Talladega Superspeedway is still on schedule to be completed in time for the April NASCAR race, despite large amounts of rainfall and unusual groundwater conditions underneath the track. Track Chairman Grant Lynch, during a news conference Wednesday at the track, said he’s amazed the general […]

It may have been the turning point for the return of University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) football. And it came with support — and, more importantly, money — from the metropolitan Birmingham business community. The meeting, held in a large conference room in the office of UAB President Ray Watts, M.D., was attended by about 30 […]

It’s halftime of the game against the Louisiana Tech University Bulldogs. The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Blazers are facing a tough conference opponent on the road. “We went into halftime. It was close. I can’t remember the score,” said UAB Head Football Coach Bill Clark. “One of those feelings coming out in the second half, […]