WASHINGTON — A group of United States congressmen has tossed aside partisan politics and announced the formation of the first ever Congressional Football Caucus. Fittingly, the group will be led by a representative from the state that has taken home five of the last seven college football national championships. U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, a Democrat […]

By Kara Kennedy Samford University senior Grace Bowes did not know what to expect when she landed a coveted ESPN internship last summer. Bowes secured her spot with the sports broadcasting business after eight interviews and a sports knowledge exam. Before pursuing the internship with ESPN, she had the opportunity to meet and spend time […]

Eighty-one-year-old former University of Alabama football coach Gene Stallings stopped by the Birmingham, Alabama-based, nationally syndicated Rick and Bubba Show this week, opening up an opportunity for the hosts to ask him whether certain “legendary stories” about his time in Tuscaloosa are actually true. Stallings did not disappoint. After winning the 1992 National Championship, Coach […]

Yellowhammer News CEO Cliff Sims on Tuesday offered to donate $1,000 to the first Alabama high school to allow their football team to run through a pre-game, breakaway banner that says, “Hillary would delete this banner if she could!” The offer was in response to the uproar over Briarwood Christian School’s Trump-related breakaway banner this […]

Briarwood Christian School had no idea it was going to send dozens of people running to their Safe Spaces on Friday when it dared to make a tongue-in-cheek reference to Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump prior to its football team’s game against Fairfield High School. But that’s exactly what happened when some observers realized […]

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Buckle up, because Dabo Swinney is ready to weigh in on the current state of American culture. The Pelham, Alabama, native who played wide receiver for the Crimson Tide in the early nineties before also coaching at UA, is now the head coach of the No. 2 ranked Clemson Tigers. Swinney had not been asked […]

The morning of Sept. 9, 2006, Inky Johnson was a sure-fire first round NFL draft pick playing safety for the University of Tennessee. By the time that same day was coming to a close, he had stepped on the football field as a player for the last time, and he was fighting for his life. […]

While San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick continued his protest of the American flag by kneeling during the National Anthem on Monday night, his teammate and former University of Alabama star Quinton Dial stood shoulder to shoulder with members of the armed forces and helped to hold a giant American flag while the Anthem played. Dial is […]

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By Michael Tomberlin UAB unveiled a new video today, kicking off a campaign for the 2016-17 season a year before football returns to the school. The “Together We Are Greater Birmingham” video and promotion taps into the revived interest in football and other sports at the school after the football program was eliminated in December […]

(Video above: Silver Wings Parachute Team descends into Jordan-Hare Stadium) Prior to Auburn’s game against Clemson on Saturday, the Silver Wings Parachute Team took to the skies above Jordan-Hare Stadium for an impressive display of aerial accuracy. The team is based at Ft. Benning’s U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence. “Formed in 1965 by the […]

By Wayne Hester Verne Lundquist will be four days shy of 53 years in broadcasting on Sept. 3 when CBS televises the UCLA at Texas A&M game. “Verne is a legend in this business,” said his partner Gary Danielson. “I am thankful to have had the opportunity to sit next to him calling SEC games.” […]

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Longtime Alabama resident Scott Stantis is widely viewed as one of the best — if not the best — editorial cartoonists in the country. At one point he was the staff cartoonist for The Birmingham News. And although he’s now at The Chicago Tribune, which is one of the most high profile jobs in his […]

Some people might think you’re on Easy Street the year after your football team finishes as the runner-up to the national champion in the Football Championship Subdivision. Don’t count Jacksonville State coach John Grass among that number. “You’ve got to work harder now than what you were working,” said Grass, whose team lost 37-10 to […]

Nick Saban will turn 65 this year, just days before Alabama travels to Baton Rouge to take on SEC West rival LSU in Death Valley. The Crimson Tide will be eight games into the season by then, and either on their way to once again meeting the perennial high expectations that come with being the […]

Homeschool students in Alabama are for the first time getting their shot to play middle school and high school football, thanks to a newly-implemented rule change by The Alabama High School Athletic Association. The issue of homeschoolers not being allowed to play first came to the forefront as the so called “Tebow Bill” worked its […]

RIO DE JANEIRO — Alabama native DeMarcus Cousins helped lead the USA Men’s Basketball Team to Gold in Rio over the weekend, but as soon as he gets back stateside, he better be ready to take out his checkbook because the IRS will be coming his way. Unbeknownst to some of the athletes and most […]

There are very few people in the world who can truly understand what it’s like to be Michael Phelps — one of the world’s most famous athletes and, at times, a man who has endured the consequences of his private struggles coming under the public microscope. Ray Lewis understands better than most. Lewis is widely […]

Jennifer Stevenson leads a double life of sorts. At home, she’s the wife of John Stevenson, editor and publisher of The Randolph Leader, spending her time at their place in Roanoke tending to donkeys, chickens, goats and more. At the office, though, as head of development and special events for the Lakeshore Foundation, she goes […]

Alabama native and WBC Heavyweight Champion Deontay Wilder is on the road to recovery and discussing his most recent surgery with the public. Wilder (37-0) suffered significant injuries in a July 16th bout with Chris Arreola, which he managed to win with a broken right hand and a distal tear. “I’m very optimistic about what’s […]

For Lillie Leatherwood, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro bring back memories of the highlight of her life – the day 32 years ago when she took her place on the podium as a gold-medal winner. Leatherwood brought home the gold in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics as part of the U.S. team […]

AUBURN, Ala. — If you have watched Olympic swimming for the past twenty years, then you know the voice of Rowdy Gaines. Along with his broadcast partner Dan Hicks, Gaines has covered all of NBC’s Olympic swimming events since the 1996 Atlanta Games. Together, the duo have covered what has been deemed the golden age […]