For a printable version, click here. Pro tip: Save the image below to your phone for quick and easy access all weekend. (Note: All times are Central) Zack Shaw is a contributing writer for Yellowhammer News and former walk-on for the Auburn Tigers. You can contact him by email: zack@yellowhammernews.com or on Twitter @z_m_shaw Hayden […]

For a printable version, click here. Pro tip: Save the image below to your phone for quick and easy access all weekend. (Note: All times are Central) Zack Shaw is a contributing writer for Yellowhammer News and former walk-on for the Auburn Tigers. You can contact him by email: zack@yellowhammernews.com or on Twitter @z_m_shaw Hayden […]

For a printable version, click here. Pro tip: Save the image below to your phone for quick and easy access all weekend. (Note: All times are Central) Zack Shaw is a contributing writer for Yellowhammer News and former walk-on for the Auburn Tigers. You can contact him by email: zack@yellowhammernews.com or on Twitter @z_m_shaw Hayden […]

The World Games 2022 on Wednesday announced that Wind Creek Hospitality, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians’ gaming authority, had been chosen as its official resort and casino partner. The international sports competition next year will be hosted in Birmingham July 7-17. Nick Sellers, CEO of The World Games 2022, expressed excitement over the partnership’s […]

As the college football regular season winds down, the coaching carousel heats up. So far in 2021, 28 of 130 FBS programs have had coaching changes. Coaching decisions illustrate some elements of economic and business decisions generally. Perhaps unexpectedly, imagination plays an outsized role. I will focus on coaching vacancies from firing, not retirements or […]

Birmingham tipped off a new sports experience Sunday night and fans made it clear they are hungry for more. An announced crowd of 4,872 turned out at the revamped Legacy Arena to see the first home game of the Birmingham Squadron, the G League affiliate of the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans. That crowd made itself apparent from the beginning, waving the […]

University of Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Bryce Young on Saturday night was named the winner of the Heisman Trophy for the 2021 college football season. The award marks the second consecutive year an Alabama player has been recognized as the most outstanding player in college football. The Tide’s star quarterback became the university’s fourth-ever Heisman […]

Ronni and Lennox Vinson, 6-year-old twin sisters from Highland Home, were honorary coin-toss team captains for the Class 3A championship football game Thursday at 11 a.m. at Birmingham’s Protective Stadium. It’s the 25th consecutive year that kids and families from Children’s of Alabama have been honored before each of the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s […]

The Alabama Crimson Tide are back-to-back SEC Champions. And Nick Saban, once again, shows why he is the king of college football. Alabama defeated Georgia 41-24 in Atlanta to claim their 10th conference championship since the SEC started having a championship game in 1992. In that amount of time Alabama has the most wins of […]

The SEC Championship Game has always been a game full of excitement, great teams, great players and massive implications on the national scale. This year is no different as the third-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide will face off against the number one Georgia Bulldogs. If Alabama wins, both teams will most likely make the Playoffs. However, […]

There was no ribbon-cutting during the reopening of Legacy Arena at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex. And why would there be? You don’t generally cut a ribbon at a housewarming. That as much as anything is what was celebrated Thursday morning as dignitaries who joined to bring the rebirth of the decades-old facility came to celebrate the early Christmas […]

Auburn University students Logan Parks and Tucker Smith have a million extra reasons to be thankful this week. The Tigers, who are members of the Auburn Bass Fishing Team, hauled in the $1 million first-place prize for winning the Bass Pro Shops U.S. Open National Bass Fishing Amateur Team Championships on Sunday. Parks, a senior, and Smith, a sophomore, […]

The Alabama Sports Hall of Fame has announced its Class of 2022: Doyle Alexander, William Andrews, Keith Askins, Rusty Greer, Patrick Murphy, Jake Peavy, Phillip Rivers and Justin Tuck. The eight athletics standouts will be inducted May 7, 2022. Executive Director Scott Myers said the class was selected by ballot through a statewide selection committee with votes […]

For a printable version, click here. Pro tip: Save the image below to your phone for quick and easy access all weekend. (Note: All times are Central) Zack Shaw is a contributing writer for Yellowhammer News and former walk-on for the Auburn Tigers. You can contact him by email: zack@yellowhammernews.com or on Twitter @z_m_shaw Hayden […]

Bragging rights are on the line for two Alabama members of Congress in the SEC Championship Game between the University of Alabama and University of Georgia. U.S. Reps. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) and Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) on Thursday announced a friendly wager with U.S. Reps. David Scott (D-GA) and Jody Hice (R-GA) on which team will […]

During Saturday’s edition of ESPN’s “College GameDay,” the sports network gave viewers an inside look at Nick and Terry Saban’s charitable impact on the Tuscaloosa community. Shortly after the tornado outbreak on April 27, 2011, the Sabans decided to partake in a transformative effort to help families regain stability by building new homes for those […]

The Iron Bowl is known to be one of the fiercest rivalries in all of sports, and one team being superior never truly affects the game all that much. This has especially been the case when the game is played at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Alabama. The Tide came into the game ranked third in […]

The Iron Bowl is the game that makes the Yellowhammer State stand still one day out of the year. Stores shut down, schools give no homework, and even the toughest of bosses give their employees the day off work. Third-ranked Alabama will take on Auburn in Jordan-Hare Stadium at 2:30 p.m. CT today for the […]

Pride. How much does the 2021 Auburn Tigers football team have? Because at this point in the season, that is what is left to play for. Auburn has lost three consecutive games SEC games, its starting quarterback and any good vibes that were present at the end of October. It is at this point that […]

Auburn University’s Southeastern Raptor Center will hold a special Football, Fans and Feathers show at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 26, featuring retired bald eagle Spirit and young bald eagle Independence, or Indy. The university’s Board of Trustees recently passed a resolution naming Spirit an Honorary War Eagle upon her retirement from pregame flights after the […]

For a printable version, click here. Pro tip: Save the image below to your phone for quick and easy access all weekend. (Note: All times are Central) Zack Shaw is a contributing writer for Yellowhammer News and former walk-on for the Auburn Tigers. You can contact him by email: zack@yellowhammernews.com or on Twitter @z_m_shaw Hayden […]

Huntsville-based mortgage company HomeTown Lenders (HTL) on Wednesday announced that it had agreed to sponsor rising golf sensation Jovan Rebula. Rebula, the nephew of World Golf Hall of Famer Ernie Els, recently graduated from Auburn University where he was an All-American collegiate golfer. In 2018, he claimed The Amateur Championship, the second South African native […]

Birmingham-based Taziki’s Mediterranean Café on Wednesday announced its first collaboration with two female NCAA college athletes. Auburn University softball player Carlee McCondichie and University of Alabama basketball player Hannah Barber are partnering with Taziki’s to promote the Greek and Mediterranean-style restaurant’s healthy dietary options. The collaboration, announced as the state celebrates Iron Bowl week, will […]

Tuesday, the Tuscaloosa News reported veteran Alabama beat writer Cecil Hurt passed away at age 62 at the UAB Hospital in Birmingham due to complications from pneumonia. Hurt was a household name for college football fans across the state of Alabama. Hurt started at The Tuscaloosa News in 1982 as a sports writer. In 1989, […]