Just as Bear Bryant stepped down as head coach at the University of Alabama and passed away, so did Mal Moore.  After stepping down as Athletic Director merely 10 days ago the longtime University of Alabama legacy, passed away Saturday at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. Moore. The 73 year old had been battling pulmonary difficulties. Moore had been hospitalized in Durham since March 13 and of ...

It was another last second shot for the Crimson Tide that didn't go down this time that ended the 2012/1213 basketball season.  Alabama and Maryland fought back and forth all night in a great match-up but the Tide just couldn't pull out the win to advance the season and onto the NIT Final Four, falling just short 57-58. In front of what seemed to be Coleman Coliseum's second largest and very loud crowd for ...

Only two days (day and a half really) after UA president Judy Bonner recommended Bill Battle as the next Athletic Director for the University of Alabama, the Board of Trustees unanimously approved the decision on a Friday morning teleconference. UA president Judy Bonner: “Our dear friend and colleague, Mal Moore, has given us a good blueprint … in order to be successful as AD.” Battle, 71, steps in as longt ...

The Crimson Tide started off the 2012 Championship season in Arlington, Texas against the Michigan Wolverines.  Well, Alabama is now set to kick off the 2015 season against another Big 10 opponent in Cowboys  Stadium on September 15th.  The Alabama football team will face Wisconsin to open the 2015 season for the “Cowboys Stadium Classic” with television network coverage and kickoff time to be determined at ...

After being hospitalized for the last week with irregular heart beat/health concerns Coach Mal Moore will be stepping down as athletics director. The University of Alabama announced today that effective March 20, 2013, Moore will become the special assistant to President Judy Moore. “Mal Moore is Crimson Tide sports,” said Bonner.  “During his tenure as athletics director, our student athletes have experien ...

The defending 2012 NIT champions and current fourth-seed Stanford Cardinals had a hard fought game last night as they took on Stephen F Austin.  The game went back and forth and came down to the last shot which was missed by the Lumberjacks' Desmond Haymon to give the win to the Cardinals 58-57. The win by Stanford at home now sends them to Tuscaloosa for the second round where they will face top-seeded Ala ...

The Alabama men’s basketball team opened play in the 2013 National Invitation Tournament on Tuesday night in Coleman Coliseum. The last time the Tide played in the NIT was 2011, also earning a No. 1 seed reaching the Finals but falling short in the championship game to Wichita State. This year, again one of the four top-seeded teams, the Crimson Tide makes it to the second round in easy fashion by taking ou ...

“We are over the moon” is how Senior Ashley Sledge describes how the Alabama Gymnastics team feels after knocking off No. 1 ranked Oklahoma in Coleman Coliseum on Senior Night. Alabama closed out the regular season with a 197.525-196.900 win over the undefeated Sooners in front of 11.776 fans. It was the Crimson Tide’s fifth consecutive 197-plus score and fifth win out of five attempts at home this season. ...

With each year of success on the football field more and more NFL teams are drawn to the University of Alabama campus.  Not only to watch some great games during the season or to speak with coaches and lure them away to the "big leagues" but to evaluate potential NFL prospects.  Today was no different and it was a big deal for this "big league" University with all 32 NFL teams coming into Tuscaloosa for the ...

What better way to end Alabama basketball’s one hundredth season than with a 50-foot, half-court shot as the clock hits zero by Trevor Releford to boost the Tide past Georgia 61-58.  It was senior day for the Crimson Tide (20-11, 12-6 SEC) in Coleman Coliseum and several former players were on hand to also celebrate the centennial season for the Tide, including legendary former head coach’s C.M. Newton and ...