Three years removed from winning his first and only BCS National Championship, LSU skipper Les Miles could be entering his last season as head coach of the Tigers. Miles assumed head coaching duties on January 3, 2005, when current Alabama head coach Nick Saban bolted Baton Rouge to try his hand in the NFL. Miles got off to a red-hot start by going 11-2 in his first season as head coach and earned a trip to Atlanta to represent...
Apparently one of the perks of being the BCS National Champion is the right to rename opponents’ schools. Thanks to Friends of The Program, we now know that the University of Alabama athletic department is apparently spending far too much time focusing on repeating as BCS national champs, and not enough time on anything else. When printing tickets for this year’s slate of games, someone fell asleep at the wheel and misprinted the ‘Bama vs. ‘Mississipi‘ State tickets. Unfortunately for Alabama, the...
Since former Crimson Tide safety Justin Woodall didn’t get drafted or signed by any NFL team in 2010, he is moving on to baseball. The 2 year starter saw the 2010 NFL draft pass him by and the Chicago Bears did not sign him as a free agent when he attended mini-camp. However, during this time, the former high school baseball phenom was being scouted by several major league baseball teams. His athletic ability and reputation from high school...
Alonzo Lawrence was once a Parade All-American and the southeast region’s 8th ranked recruit according to the Mobile Press-Register. In 2008 Lawrence signed a letter of intent and headed off to Tuscaloosa to play college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide. Expectations for the defensive back were high in ‘Bama country, but Lawrence redshirted his first year on campus and never saw playing time for the Tide. After that, things went downhill for Lawrence and ultimately ended with him transferring...
In an attempt to find harmony between academics and athletics, former Secretary of State and current Stanford political science professor, Condoleezza Rice, is taking on an additional position as a Cardinal recruiter. Dr. Rice is poised to attract top blue-chip recruits for all Stanford sports but most importantly, football. Dr. Rice is no stranger to Stanford or football and she should be a natural fit in her new position. During Dr. Rice’s Stanford years, she immediately got involved with...
Football and politics go about as well together as Oprah Winfrey and Lean Cuisine. One does not have to look further than the current United States Senate vs. BCS spat going on right now to see this. Most recently, Paul Finebaum, a regionally well-renowned Alabama sports talk show host and columnist, may have thrown a wrench in Alabama gubernatorial hopeful Tim James’s election bid. During yesterday’s afternoon edition of the Paul Finebaum Show, Finebaum announced on-air that there was a rumor circulating that James (an...
Flint, Michigan is getting ready to welcome their native son. Alabama junior running back Mark Ingram is set to return home to central Michigan this upcoming Saturday and the whole Flint community will honor Mark’s return with a Heisman Homecoming Celebration. The fiesta will be held at Flint’s Atwood Stadium, a historic venue that Jackie Robinson and Jessee Owens once played in. The Heisman Homecoming Celebration will be held from 12-2pm EDT and will feature Ingram’s HS band and...
If you’re an Alabama fan, things can’t get much better for you these days. This past football season, fans witnessed Mark Ingram become the first ‘Bama football player to win the esteemed Heisman Trophy and saw ‘Bama win their 13th national championship in football. People in Tuscaloosa haven’t been this excited since Paul “Bear” Bryant and Broadway Joe Namath graced the sidelines together in Denny Stadium. As if the Tide’s recent gridiron success wasn’t enough, ‘Bama and Nike just inked...
