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November 9, 2020 – MONTGOMERY, AL. – the Alabama Gazette staff was divided on the Georgia and Ole Miss, South Carolina and Vanderbilt, and Alabama and LSU games. Sam was the only member of the panel to pick all six of the weeks games correctly. Some of us apparently underestimated Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss because they clearly were the better team that day. Alabama thoroughly dominated LSU in a game that we all thought would have been close. Brandon and Christopher made the mistake of pic...
November 18, 2024- Tuscaloosa, AL- The Alabama Crimson Tide added another number to the win column on Saturday, when they defeated the 9-1 Mercer Bears 52-7. The lone score by the Bears came on a spectacular one handed 31-yard touchdown reception by wide receiver K. Harris with 2:05 left in the second quarter. Prior to that the Bears were unable to move the ball in a game, in which Alabama only allowed 202 total yards and created 3 turnovers. The Tide juxtaposed the Bears output by putting up...
November 16, 2024 – AUBURN, AL – the Auburn University football team performed up to expectations in their rout of the University of Louisiana at Monroe. The Tigers blew out ULM 14 to 48 at Jordan-Hare Stadium on Saturday. Senior Running back Jarquez Hunter was too much for ULM's defenders to handle. Hunter, one of the best running backs in the nation, rushed for 102 yards on just 14 carries. Hunter passed a thousand yards on the season. Hunter has 3,185 yards in his Auburn career with two gam...
November 14, 2024 – the UAB football team went on the road and lost 18 to 53. No they were not playing a top tier SEC or Big 10 team. They were blown out by Memphis – an American Athletic Conference opponent. Memphis improved to 9 and 2 overall and 5-2 in the AAC; while UAB fell to a woeful 2 and 8 overall and 1 and 5 in AAC play. UAB head Coach Trent Dilfer has taken heavy fire from the fans and the sports media alike. The decision to move from Conference USA to the American Athletic Con...
November 14, 2024 – Both Alabama and Auburn paid woefully outmatched out of conference opponents to come to their stadiums to take a beat down. Both teams won their tune up games as they prepare for the homestretch of the SEC schedule. LSU continued its plummet into the abyss with another loss while Tennessee lost a game it needed to win to control its own destiny in getting a berth in the 12 team college football playoff. The SEC games of the week of November 14 were: Texas at Arkansas – Tex...
November 23, 2024 – there are just two weeks left in the college football regular season and six SEC teams are in contention for the SEC championship game and one of the twelves playoff berths. Someone's playoff dreams will likely be ended today. Auburn must win today to keep its bowl dreams alive. The stakes this week could not be higher. Alabama must win today in order to have a realistic chance of going to the SEC Championship game and the playoffs. The SEC Games of the week are: Ole Miss a...
November 23, 2024- AUBURN, AL – Texas A&M's college football playoff dreams came crashing to Earth late on Saturday night when that A&M receiver dropped the pass in the endzone sealing an overtime win for the Auburn Tigers. Clearly this was the best win that Auburn has had thus far this season – and likely the best win that Auburn has had in the last four disappointing seasons. Auburn dominated the game earlier and looked like the far better team jumping out to a 21 to nothing lead by the mid...
November 23, 2024 – BIRMINGHAM, AL – the UAB Blazers football team picked up their third win of the season with an impressive performance against Rice 14 to 40. The win improves UAB to 3 and 8 (2-5 in the American Athletic Conference). UAB Quarterback Jalen Kitna had another impressive day completing 18 pass on 23 attempts for 174 yards and two touchdowns. Jalen is the son of longtime NFL quarterback John Kitna. Kitna took over midseason when UAB starting quarterback Jacob Zeno suffered a con...
November 25, 2024- Tuscaloosa, AL- The Alabama Crimson Tide suffer their biggest loss of the season to the Oklahoma Sooners in a convincing 24-3 rout. Alabama traveled to Norman, Oklahoma with their playoff hopes very much alive and left with those hopes smothered out. The Tide were able to open the game with a defensive stop leading to a drive of their own that resulted in a field goal to take the lead 3-0. That was the end of the scoring on the night. After that, Oklahoma would prove to have...
November 26, 2024 – HAWAII – the Auburn Tigers basketball team defeated Iowa State in in an invitational tournament played in the island state. The Tigers at one point trailed by 18 points to the number four team in the country; but Auburn is the number four team in the country for a reason. Auburn came storming back to win 83 to 81 when Johni Broome tipped the ball in for the game winning shot. Broome, a 6-10 senior, had 21 points and ten rebounds to lead the Tigers in the victory. "We are ver...
If there is one thing that fans of any sport love, it's a scandal. A fallen hero, a desperate plot, or an outrageous scam always offer a major talking point when the latest misdemeanor has been broken to the public. Be it drug cheats in track and field events, scandals in the casino or anything in between, the shock factor is always going to make the headlines; and when it comes to headlines, they do not get much bigger than a gambling scandal. These scandals can entail the desire to bend the...
November 27, 2024 – HAWAIII - the Auburn University men's basketball team defeated number 12 ranked North Carolina to advance to the championship round of the Maui Invitational. The number 4 Tigers had previously beaten number 5 Iowa State. They will play Memphis who has beaten Michigan State and the University of Connecticut. Auburn is 6 and 0 with three wins against teams in the top 12. While Auburn had to come from behind to narrowly outlast Iowa State, Tuesday's (in Hawaii time) game a...
November 29, 2024 - It is hard to believe that the SEC season is coming to an end; but this is the last week; before we go to the SEC Championship game, the playoffs, and the bowl games. The SEC games of the last week are: Texas versus Texas A&M Vanderbilt hosts Tennessee Auburn at Alabama Georgia Tech is at Georgia Mississippi State is at Ole Miss Louisville is at Kentucky Florida State is at Florida South Carolina is at Clemson Missouri hosts Arkansas Oklahoma is at LSU The Alabama Gazette pan...
November 29, 2024 - TUSCALOOSA, AL - For football fans who seek the opportunity to smile and wave at their friends and relatives from the television screen, the SEC network's signature traveling show, SEC Nation, is filming live from Tuscaloosa, Alabama ahead of the November 30th, 2024 Alabama v. Auburn game. A sports talk show featuring the anchors Laura Rutledge, Tim Tebow, Jordan Rodgers, Paul Finebaum, and Roman Harper, SEC Nation starts airing live at nine AM central time on Saturday...
The Alabama Gazette Panel was shocked to see Oklahoma's overwhelming victory over the University of Alabama. Alabama was tasked with beating LSU, Oklahoma, and then Auburn and then they would be in the twelve team playoff. They got the first part of that accomplished; but failed miserably at beating 5 and 5 Oklahoma. Now they are outside the field of twelve looking in. They need to somehow beat Auburn in the Iron Bowl and hope for there to be chaos ahead of them as they need help to make the...
November 30, 2024 – CHARLOTTE, NC – the UAB Blazers football team picked up their ninth loss of the year to Charlotte 27 to 29. UAB led late but Charlotte mounted a furious comeback in the fourth quarter to come away with the victory. UAB led 20 to 19, before Charlotte scored ten points to lead 29 to 20 with five minutes left. UAB added a late touchdown to narrow the score; but UAB kicker Jonah Delange missed a field goal that would have given the Blazers the comeback win. Charlotte had alr...
November 30, 2024 – TUSCALOOSA, AL – Auburn's disappointing season came to an end with a 14 to 28 loss to the University of Alabama. Auburn came in with a 5 and 6 record, so the loss means that the Tigers will not be bowl eligible. This is the fifth year in a row that Auburn has finished a season without a winning record. Auburn was able to drive the football on Alabama; but once in the red zone things went awry. Auburn turned it over on downs twice, made two field goals, and missed a field goal...
December 2, 2024- Tuscaloosa, AL- The Alabama Crimson Tide defeated Auburn in a sloppy 28-14 Iron Bowl victory to keep their slim playoff chances alive. In a game that had a total of 6 turnovers, Alabama was able to persevere and emerge the victors on Saturday night. Tide Quarterback Jalen Milroe started the scoring for the night with a 19-yard rushing touchdown, outflanking Auburn linebacker Demarcus Riddick. It wasn't all positive for Milroe due to his two turnovers, coming in the form of 1...
November 29, 2024 – The SEC regular season is finally finished. All that we have left are the SEC Championship game, the playoffs, and the bowl games. Auburn will not be going bowling; while Alabama is clinging to that final spot in the college football playoffs as we head into championship game week. The Alabama Gazette panel generally had a good final week of predictions though there were some surprises – in a season full of surprises. One game that everybody on the panel missed was Ken...
December 4, 2024 – BIRMINGHAM, AL – University of Alabama at Birmingham Athletics Director Mark Ingram announced that "Coach Dilfer will continue to be our head coach in 2025." The announcement that ends weeks of speculation that the university might be making a change at the position. Some Blazer fans had expressed concerns about the state of the program after Dilfer went 4 and 8 in his first season and 3 and 9 in his second season. "Our last two football seasons have not met UAB's sta...
December 7, 2024 – ATLANTA, GA – the Southeastern Conference championship will be decided on the field today when the two beast SEC teams face off in Atlanta in the Southeastern Conference Championship Game. The University of Alabama is not a participant this year. The University of Georgia and the University of Texas will play for the SEC championship. This is a disappointment for Tide fans; but it appears after the Playoff Committee released their ranking showing Alabama ahead of Miami tha...
The University of Alabama Birmingham Blazers football team went to Westpoint and were completely by the cadets of Westpoint. Most of the Army players will be officers in the U.S. Army within four years – some of them as soon as this time next year; but on Saturday they were the better athletes in this one sided matchup between them and the Blazers. Army destroyed UAB 10 to 44. The Black Knights are an American Athletic Conference opponent making the loss even more of a disaster. UAB won their o...
October 12, 2024 – TUSCALOOSA – Tide fans got a little more than they bargained for when the South Carolina Gamecocks came to town and pushed Alabama hard for a four quarter slugfest that lasted literally all the way to the final play of the fourth quarter. The Alabama Crimson Tide survived a late comeback attempt by the Gamecocks to take away a narrow 25 to 27 win. Alabama was a 21-point favorite, so most football fans expected Bama to get out to a big lead in the first half and put away Sou...
The Alabama Gazette panel did a horrible job picking games in week 6. None of our panelists predicted that number one in the nation Alabama would play such epically poor defense against the Vanderbilt Commodores. That combined with other upsets contributed to the worst week of football prognosticating this year. Sadly, Auburn has played so badly in 2024 that no one on the panel had picked Auburn to beat Georgia – and they didn't. The week six SEC games were: Missouri at Texas A&M – Texas A&M...
The days when most NBA stars played for the same teams throughout their careers are over. With players often signing short-term contracts or long-term deals that include opt-out clauses, the culture has become one of total player empowerment. The stars have a say in where, with whom, and for how much money they will play. Stacker compiled a list of the 20 highest-paid players using 2024-25 data from Hoops Hype. Players were ranked according to their guaranteed salaries. Interestingly, half of th...
