Three college football games on Thursday, including UAB playing host to Alabama A&M, begin a busy slate.
Late night at Center Parc Stadium was worth wait for the Alabama State football team and first-year head coach Eddie Robinson as the Hornets opened the 2022 season with a 23-13 victory over Howard.
Picking a signature UAB moment for DeWayne McBride Jr. is not a simple task, partly because there’s that feeling that the signature moment is still out there. Or, perhaps, because signature moments come with different definitions.
First, before you make any assumptions about where this story is going, please note that I did not attend Auburn or Alabama and don’t watch college football. (I know, sacrilege.) I’m an NFL guy. That said, pretty much everyone I know is a fan of one school or the other.
Jacksonville State quarterback Zion Webb, playing in a game for the first time, looked rusty at the beginning of the Gamecocks weather-shortened 42-17 victory over 10th ranked Stephen F. Austin in the FCS Kickoff at the Cramton Bowl.
High school football got in full swing on Friday night. Each week we’ll take a quick look around the state at what happened under the Friday night lights.
Jacksonville State is in Montgomery and Alabama State travels to Atlanta to begin the football season.
Auburn University on Friday announced its athletics director, Allen Greene, was stepping down after over four years of leading the Athletics Department.
Iverson Hooks wanted to find his way onto the field in his first college football season.
The Football Championship Subdivision playoff carrot disappeared. The excitement over moving up a college football level and settling into some new facilities is reserved from someone else. That’s just part of reality for a group of 14 Jacksonville State senior football players.
High school football teams gear up another week of early season games. Some teams opened last week while others delayed their season opener to this week. Each week, we’ll take a quick look at notable games.
Dylan Hopkins will start at quarterback for the UAB Blazers in the Sept. 1 season opener against Alabama A&M at Protective Stadium.
Former UAB football coach Bill Clark missing football is not exactly unexpected news. For nearly 35 years, he’s coached football. For a lot longer than that, as the son of a high school coach, he’s been around the game. It’s toward the end of August, which means fall camp for college teams has ended and the first game quickly approaching.
On the surface, it looked like the Samford men’s basketball team’s trip to the Dominican Republic was about the game of basketball. Dig past the surface, though, and it was about much more. And you really don’t have to dig far.
He’s considering on making a fashion statement by wearing shorts, will keep his starting quarterback a secret, at least to the public, until kickoff and had to adjust some things because he believes a couple staff members from the opening day opponent were at his team’s spring game. That covers some of the highlights of the first game week press conference for first-year Jacksonville State head coach Rich Rodriguez.
Although University of Georgia head coach Kirby Smart got the best of Nick Saban in January, the legendary University of Alabama head coach again has bragging rights over his former defensive coordinator.
Bryce Damous and his fellow UAB tight end teammates know very well that their position comes complete with a question mark heading into the season.
Easing into his new situation wasn’t an option for freshly minted Troy University quarterback Jarret Doege. The much-traveled quarterback left Western Kentucky on Wednesday night, traveled with his new teammates at Troy on Thursday and participate in the Trojans fall camp scrimmage on Saturday.
Fall camp officially closed on Saturday night at Protective Stadium with UAB’s second and final scrimmage.
Jackson Bratton, who was fresh off two years in the University of Alabama football program, didn’t know what to expect when he arrived at UAB.
Jahmyr Gibbs, who has flashed his way into the spotlight during the University of Alabama football fall camp, was asked on Friday what his goals were in his first season in Tuscaloosa.
Dexter Boykin had specific future athletic plans when he first arrived at Fairfield High. “I thought I was going to be about 6-8 and go to Duke,” Boykin said.
His latest transfer portal appearance ended with Jarret Doege joining the Troy University football program.
The Tuscaloosa City Council approved a concession application to sell alcohol inside football games at the University of Alabama (UA) Tuesday.
Registration for Hunting 101 Workshops are now open.
Talking his way through a cornerback position filled with experience and talent to get into the playing rotation wasn’t an option. Colby Dempsey found an infallible option.
His bond with quarterback Bryce Young is getting stronger by the day. His crowning moment in college football is solidly in the rearview mirror. His focus on working toward a new crowning moment is solidified.