Tag: FOOTBALL

The Mobile County Public School System (MCPSS) has placed the Mary G. Montgomery head football coach on leave.

The Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) is preparing for the Super 7 State Football Championship games at Protective Stadium in Birmingham.

The Pike County High School’s Bulldog stadium was dedicated to legendary Coach Wayne Grant on Friday night.

They had shared this experience: the hope, the heartbreak, the inexplicable loyalty to something larger than themselves. They had learned that to love anything – a team, a person, a dream – is to accept the risk of loss.

A southern homecoming week wouldn’t be the same without the traditional “rolling of the yards.”

August persists, yet autumn whispers its arrival with the subtlety of a lover’s first confession.

It’s a new year, but the same ol’ Iron Bowl. A new era of college football, but the same ol’ tradition. New coaches, but the same ol’ standard of excellence. A new Alabama, but the same ol’ rivalry that divides the state. It’s a rivalry that has Alabamians thankful for their home state, and maybe more thankful for their football team.

It’s not like The GOAT made the last 17 years of my house-divided marriage easy. My husband and I do pretty well … until the Friday after Thanksgiving.

The idea of being with his team was all it took for one of the greatest players in football history to stay on.

Clark Griffin, a sophomore linebacker at Harding University, joined a short list of NCAA football players throughout history on Saturday who have won national championships at both the Division I and II levels.

The Anniston High School Bulldogs will take on the White Plains Wildcats in its annual homecoming football game on Friday night. But, unlike previous years, Anniston residents didn’t get to encourage the team the night before.

Former Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Tua Tagovailoa on Wednesday urged others to watch the "Sound of Freedom," a hit film that tells the story of Tim Ballard, a Homeland Security agent who quit his job after failing to get clearance to save children from sex traffickers in Colombia.

Former Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s charitable foundation, the Tua Foundation, is raising money for victims of the fire that has ravished the Hawaiian island of Maui since earlier this month.

Ex-Tennessee head football coach Jeremy Pruitt is back working in Alabama after being fired from leading the Volunteers for committing major recruiting violations.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is investigating the shooting death of Rishard Densmore, 21, of Birmingham.

The first few selections of the NFL Draft will have an Alabama flavor.

A Mobile football star turned NFL prospect is a "fighter" and is in good spirits after being released from the hospital following a fatal crash.

Reuben Foster, a Butkus Award winner in 2016 at Alabama, had 12 tackles in his USFL debut with the Pittsburgh Maulers.

Birmingham Stallions continue to build toward the opening of the second USFL season.

Former NFL quarterback and 1997 Heisman Trophy finalist Ryan Leaf spoke at the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Mountain Brook on Thursday about his struggle with opioid addiction. 

Adam Fossett has done big things with the B.B. Comer program since taking over in 2018.

Former NFL receiver Kevin Drake talks about his personal experience with concussions, as well as concussion research and education.

Forecast of stormy weather has moved most of the Alabama high school football games up to Thursday night. We take a look at some of the top games this week.

The high school football season heated up this week with the start of region play. We take a look at some of this week’s highlights.

Week three of high school football is the full-scale kickoff of region play around the state.

Veteran center Nick Brahms, one of the most experienced players on the Auburn football roster and entering his sixth season on the Plains, has retired from football.

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.