Dareus will miss two games
Alabama defensive lineman Marcell Dareus will miss two games and must pay almost $1,800 in restitution for improper contact with an agent, the NCAA announced Thursday. Dareus made two trips to Miami, according to an NCAA release, and received improper benefits that included airfare, lodging, meals and transportation. The junior will miss Saturday’s season opener [...]
A long way to San Jose
San Jose State has never beaten an SEC team and likely won’t break that trend against No. 1 Alabama on Saturday. The Spartans were just 2-10 a year ago, including a 1-7 mark in the Western Athletic Conference. They are 0-3 against the SEC, suffering a pair of beatdowns at the hands of Florida [...]
Heisman Winner Ingram Out With Knee Injury
Alabama will be without junior running back Mark Ingram for Saturday’s opener against visiting San Jose State, and probably longer, after the Heisman Trophy winner underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Tuesday morning. Ingram suffered the injury late in Monday’s practice, and Alabama coach Nick Saban said it was a “situation where everyone [...]
Nothing wrong with a Nick Saban statue
There have been many bizarre reactions to Nick Saban and Alabama’s 13th national championship since last January. However, the most ridiculous has been the over-the-top and borderline insane reaction to Mal Moore’s very appropriate decision to honor the coach with a statue on the Wall of Champions outside Bryant-Denny Stadium. There are four other bronzed [...]
Hightower now a better player
Dont’a Hightower’s answer included a pause that hung in the air like a wobbly pass waiting to be picked off. Alabama’s middle linebacker was asked if, 11 months after reconstructive knee surgery, he felt like he was back to the level he was before his 2009 season was cut short in the Arkansas game. “No,” [...]
Judgement day approaches as first game nears
All the evasive depth chart talk is quickly coming to an end for Nick Saban. With just a week before opening the season against San Jose State, all of the experimenting and tweaking is about to end. And Saban isn’t downplaying how important the decisions are. “I think this is kind of judgment day for [...]
Organizations collaborating to handle unscrupulous agents
Cooperation among several organizations collaborating on ideas to better handle the problem of unscrupulous agents inducing student-athletes into NCAA violations has been strong, University of Alabama coach Nick Saban said Thursday. At Saban’s behest, multiple conference calls have been held that included college coaches, NCAA representatives, agents, and representatives of the National Football League and [...]
Richardson and Jones likely to return kicks
For the first time in years, opposing kickoffs and punts won’t be falling into the hands of No. 28 this fall at the University of Alabama. And filling the return void left by Javier Arenas, it would appear, will require more than one player. UA running back Trent Richardson is likely to replace Arenas on [...]
NFF to honor Gene Stallings
Former University of Alabama coach Gene Stallings will be honored by the National Football Foundation in Tuscaloosa on the weekend of the Crimson Tide’s Oct. 2 home game against Florida. The NFF announced May 27 that Stallings would be part of the College Football Hall of Fame’s 2010 induction class. “From his years as a [...]
Saban on the screen, but not in the theater
Terry Saban. Nicholas Saban. Kristen Saban. Mal Moore. That’s just a partial list of the VIP’s scheduled to be at the Carmike Summit tonight for the world premiere of “Nick Saban: Gamechanger.” There’s one dignitary, a man who plays a rather large role in the film, who’s not planning to attend. It’s the title [...]
New stadium renovations may help young kickers
When the University of Alabama Athletic Department first began the early planning stages of the Bryant-Denny Stadium expansion project in 2007, none could have known for certain the Crimson Tide would be breaking in a new kicker in 2010. Or even be sure, for that matter, that 2010 would be the debut season for the [...]
Defense improves in second scrimmage
“There’s a lot of things that we can learn from this scrimmage,” coach Nick Saban told reporters. “There’s a lot of situational mistakes made that players are going to learn from. Hopefully they can all learn from it and we’ll continue to get better.” Saban said the scrimmage mimicked a game more closely than the [...]
