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The Freeze family clearly had a wonderful Fourth of July, as the Auburn head coach shared video of himself and his family on their boat celebrating America and listening to some good music. https://x.com/CoachHughFreeze/status/1809067037081088006 While listening to Eric Church’s Hell of a View the family is clearly living their best life as Freeze gears up for […]
The Kalen DeBoer era keeps on rolling on the recruiting trail. The Crimson Tide added an elite tight end recruit from El Dorado Hills, CA by the name of Kaleb Edwards on Tuesday. https://x.com/Hayesfawcett3/status/1808214036120768752 Edwards is the No. 6 tight end in the entire country and the No. 10 player in the state of California. […]
Phil Steele, a college football analyst known for his preseason predictions, has named Auburn University’s Walker White among the nation’s top freshman quarterbacks. As part of his 2024 preview magazine, Steele released a ranking of the country’s top 25 first-year QBs. White came in at 10th, one of just two SEC players to make the […]
Someone might need to inform CBS Sports that Texas and Oklahoma have been in the SEC for less than a week. In an article that ranked 1-20 the rivalries in the best conference in college football, the site ranked Texas and Oklahoma’s ‘Red River Rivalry’ as the No. 1 rivalry in the SEC. Nevermind the […]
The University of Alabama announced that single game tickets for the upcoming 2024 football season will go on sale starting next Tuesday, July 9 for matchups that include Missouri, Western Kentucky, USF and Mercer. For the opening game of the Kalen DeBoer era against Western Kentucky, which will take place at 6:00 P.M. CST on […]
Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe put on a show for spectators at one of the most prestigious summer events in the country last week. Milroe, who spent June 27-30 as a counselor at the Manning Passing Academy (MPA) in Thibodaux, Louisiana, participated in the camp’s Friday Night Lights showcase, a competition between elite quarterbacks. According to […]
The Alabama Crimson Tide could be landing the best running back in the country for the class of 2025 very soon. Akylin Dear, who just last week backed off his commitment to Ole Miss, has been crystal balled to select Alabama coming off a visit to Tuscaloosa last weekend. https://x.com/RecruitsBama/status/1808189947121488377 Dear is rated as 247’s […]
In Alabama, where sports conversations don’t often deviate from the topic of college football, UFC middleweight and former University of Alabama linebacker Eryk “Ya Boi” Anders has blazed a unique path. By making a name for himself in the internationally popular sport of mixed martial arts, he has established himself as a beacon of true […]
UAB football alumnus Matt McCants, a former NFL player, has been named the program’s offensive line coach, Blazers head coach Trent Dilfer announced on Monday. “I am so honored to announce one of the all-time great Blazers, Matt McCants, as our new offensive line coach,” Dilfer said in a statement released by the team. “As […]
The “On Air” light was live last week at the Regions Bank headquarters in downtown Birmingham as the SEC Network hit record on a new series that highlights student-athletes with an entrepreneurial streak. The inaugural “SEC Start Up” pitch competition will show viewers how SEC student athletes are purposing their sense of competitiveness off the […]
As of this week, the Universities of Texas and Oklahoma are officially members of the SEC. As the two former Big 12 behemoths enter the fray, let’s take a look at how in-state teams have fared historically against the two. Texas has a winning record against both teams, but the gap against Alabama is a […]
A star swimmer from Mobile has clinched her second Olympic berth. Paige Madden, a silver medalist in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay at the 2021 Toyko Olympics, secured her spot on the Paris 2024 team last week at the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials in Indianapolis. Due to COVID restrictions, Madden’s relatives were not able to attend […]
University of North Carolina runner Ethan Strand, an Alabama native and 2021 graduate of Birmingham’s Vestavia Hills High School, advanced to the finals of the U.S. Olympic 1,500-meter trials last week. However, in Monday’s finals, Strand fell behind the pack during the final lap and wasn’t able to secure a spot on the Olympic team. […]
Two former Alabama and Auburn basketball superstars have been selected to the USA Basketball Men’s Select Team, Team USA announced on Friday. Brandon Miller and Jabari Smith Jr. will play with the Select Team, which practices with the U.S. Olympic team in order to help them prepare for the competition they’ll face this summer in […]
The University of Alabama athletic department finished the 2023-24 school year in ninth place in the LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup standings, the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics announced Wednesday morning. It marks the second-highest finish in school history, behind only 2021’s seventh-place finish. The Directors’ Cup is an annual award given to the NCAA […]
The week of June 23-29 is ‘Rankings Week’ for EA Sports College Football 25, one of the most anticipated sports video games in history. According to the developers, Rankings Week is a showcase of some of the game’s highlights, “from the Toughest Places to Play, to the Top Offenses and Defenses, to our final Team […]
For the first time in seven years, no players from the state of Alabama’s 43 college programs were selected during this week’s NBA Draft. Fans have become accustomed to seeing homegrown Alabama players take center stage at the league’s annual event, with Auburn’s Jabari Smith and Walker Kessler selected in the first round of the […]
Spain Park High School track and field assistant coach Curtis Thompson is headed to the Olympics for a second time after winning his fourth U.S. javelin title at the trials in Eugene, Oregon. His javelin throw of 83.04 meters was three feet further than anyone else in the competition and will send him to the […]
On Thursday, Auburn men’s basketball head coach Bruce Pearl shared a powerful video of the start of an Auburn basketball youth camp, with the stadium lights dimmed and a version of the National Anthem echoing throughout Neville Arena just like a pregame setting: https://x.com/coachbrucepearl/status/1806337276185821408 RELATED: Bruce Pearl: ‘This morning our basketball camp sang GOD BLESS […]
Nick Saban, who six months ago shocked the college football world with news of his retirement, has been no stranger to the national spotlight since he called it a career. He’s been spotted testifying on Capitol Hill, relaxing at the Masters, providing NFL Draft commentary, and seemingly everywhere in between. However, the former coach is still […]
The Alabama Crimson Tide is just getting started in the Kalen DeBoer era, and things have gotten off to a smoother beginning than many anticipated in the first offseason. From a recruiting standpoint, which was the concer of many around DeBoer, the Tide are on fire and only continuing to rise in rankings. Nobody questioned […]
College Football 25 may very well be the most anticipated sports video game in history, and EA Sports is capitalizing on the hype. The video game giant released rankings of the top-25 ‘toughest places to play’ which will impact a new home-field advantage feature in the game and make some stadiums more difficult to win […]
It’s a great day to be a recruiter for either of the two major programs in the state of Alabama. According to their latest update, On3 has both Alabama and Auburn ranked well within their top ten in the latest update of their Industry Team Recruiting Rankings for the class of 2025. https://x.com/On3Recruits/status/1805955006245343539 Alabama, currently […]
Over the past few years, the state of Alabama has become one of the nation’s basketball hotbeds, producing a total of nine first-round picks in the NBA Draft since 2018. Although the state lacks elite prospects in 2024, local fans still have several reasons to watch this year’s draft, which begins on Wednesday and runs […]

