Fear not, Alabama fans. Both Julio Jones and Mark Ingram, perhaps the Tide’s two most important offensive players, have been cleared by the NCAA to play against Virginia Tech. Their eligibility was put in question when the two accompanied a Georgia businessman on a fishing trip over the summer. Needless to say, it [...]

Will a summer fishing trip with an Athens business man affect the eligibility of Alabama players Julio Jones and Mark Ingram, perhaps two of Nick Saban’s most important offensive weapons? It could very well.
While Saban has decided not to punish his two stars, he acknowledged the NCAA has yet to rule and [...]

It was a bad, bad season for SEC Basketball in 08-09. Besides LSU (and surprisingly Auburn), no team has played up to what was expected of them. This especially holds true in the SEC East. For instance, fast forward to the 50 second mark in the above video and you’ll see a [...]

Just ask Mark Gottfried, formerly the head coach at Alabama. Gottfried was fired today after his team lost to Kentucky by 10 points on Saturday. Granted, the Kentucky loss wasn’t what got him fired, more like the straw that broke the camel’s back. Over at the TideFans message boards, the consensus seems [...]

In a choice surprising absolutely no one, Alabama’s Nick Saban won AP’s Coach of the Year honors, beating out Texas Tech’s Mike Leach among others. Next up for the Sabanites is a the Sugar Bowl showdown against Utah on January 2. One wonders if the Crimson Tide will show up as a hungry [...]

Would you have it any other way? Are there better methods to decide a national championship than the BCS? Ask Division II football. But until a cataclysmic shift in the cosmos occurs, the BCS is what we have so we might as well go with it — unless, that is, the football teams [...]