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This is 2018’s last weekend without football

It's finally here, sports fans: the last weekend without either college football or NFL games until February. The NFL Preseason kicked off with the annual...

Will Biloxi sports betting hurt Alabama athletics?

Will Mississippi's newly legalized sports betting hurt Alabama athletics? One state legislator has a dire warning for college football fans. Representative Rich Wingo (R-Tuscaloosa) played five...

Alabama unanimous number one, Auburn 10th in preseason coaches poll

Defending national champion Alabama is a unanimous No. 1 in the preseason coaches' poll, with Clemson No. 2 and Ohio State No. 3. The Crimson...

Before the City of Mobile gives the University of South Alabama $10 million for a stadium, a few questions…

It took 46 years for varsity football to become a reality at Mobile’s University of South Alabama. For many of those years, from the institution’s...

Coming Attractions: Talladega Superspeedway to invest $50 million in infield renovations

TALLADEGA -- On Thursday, dignitaries from NASCAR along with Gov. Kay Ivey and State Senate President Del Marsh (R-Anniston) were on hand for the...

Alabama hunters report increase in turkey harvest

The Game Check numbers from the recently completed wild turkey season are in, and a slight uptick in hunter success was indicated. According to Alabama...

Bobbleheads celebrating Alabama national championship now available

The Alabama Crimson Tide celebrated the national football championship in front of millions of TV viewers and visited the White House. But now the University...

Sights and sounds from Talladega Superspeedway’s GEICO 500

TALLADEGA -- On Sunday, Penske Motorsports' Joey Logano won the 96th Cup series race at the Talladega Superspeedway and capped off a weekend of...

Joey Logano wins Talladega’s GEICO 500

TALLADEGA -- The wins have been few and far between as of late for Joey Logano, one of NASCAR's premier drivers, but he ended...

VIDEO: Auburn’s Gus Malzahn gives command to start engines at Talladega

TALLADEGA -- This isn't Auburn head football coach Gus Malzahn's first time as one of the honorees of Talladega Superspeedway's marquee spring event, but...

Heavyweight champ Tuscaloosa’s Deontay Wilder handles Talladega pace car duties, predicts division unification

TALLADEGA -- He may not be an expert on stock car racing, but does drive a fast gator-skin Lamborghini in his spare time. On Sunday...

Spencer Gallagher uses last-lap heroics to notch first win in Talladega Superspeedway’s Sparks Energy 300

TALLADEGA – What ended up being a failed risky bet for at least one driver opened the door for another driver to have the...

Auburn’s Bruce Pearl on Israel: If a foreign country threatened to destroy Boston or Auburn within the next 25 years, how should our country...

Sunday on Twitter, Auburn University head basketball coach Bruce Pearl reiterated his support for Israel by posing the question, if his hometown Boston or...

Talladega Superspeedway lands sponsor for October’s main event

Talladega Superspeedway announced today that the company 1000Bulbs.com would sponsor its October NASCAR Monster Energy Cup, which is one of sanctioning body's 10 "playoff"...

The University of Central Florida’s ‘national championship’ win could bring Auburn license plates to Florida

    Down in Tallahassee this week, a bill was filed in the Florida Legislature to create a specialty license plate recognizing the University of Central...

Watch the ‘Rammer Jammer’ explode after last night’s Alabama victory over Georgia

  Ladies and gentlemen ... the Rammer Jammer you've been waiting all season to hear: https://twitter.com/UofAlabama/status/950643605932249089 Roll Tide, Alabama. Roll Tide. 

‘Roll Tide … now will you marry me?’ Alabama lineman wins championship, then wins the girl

While his teammates were celebrating their historic come-from-behind victory over Georgia last night at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Alabama center Bradley Bozeman focused...

ROLL TIDE: Two heroes emerge in Alabama’s epic national championship victory over Georgia

The first words a relieved looking Nick Saban said to ESPN's Tom Rinaldi after winning his sixth national championship -- five with the Crimson...

Kirby Smart supposedly took a picture that might put a damper on his friendship with Nick Saban

  The national championship matchup has a lot of people speculating about the publicly cordial relationship between Nick Saban and his former Tide coaching colleague...

Gov. Kay Ivey magnificently trolls Georgia’s governor in a Trump-worthy tweet ahead of the national championship game

  Georgia’s governor declared a “Georgia Football Friday” last week in celebration of the University of Georgia’s appearance in tonight’s College Football Playoff National Championship. Gov. Nathan Deal...

Left-wing activists call on Nick Saban to speak out against Trump’s NFL anthem protest criticisms, decline White House invite

    In a press release issued Thursday, the liberal activist group CREDO Action boasted about a petition it claims that more than 72,000 people have signed...

Roll Trump Roll! President to attend Alabama-Georgia national championship game

    President Donald Trump will attend Monday's college football national championship game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Georgia'...

How Paul Finebaum paved the road for Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate

  Saturday morning, the Montgomery Advertiser's Brian Lyman made a tenuous argument that current U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) could be blamed for the election...

That time Nick Saban chewed me out at a press conference

Looks like I have a new and improved excuse to stand firm as the only non-Crimson Tide fan in my family: Nick Saban is my trigger. I’ve...