The Gate

Falcons wide receivers Calvin Ridley and Julio Jones didn’t play together at Alabama, but Ridley found a ‘big brother’ for life in the NFL

We’ve all heard the saying “it’s all in the numbers,” and nowhere does that hold more true than in the world of sports. Win-loss records. Statistics. Time keeping. The very foundation of sport itself is built on keeping things in

Explain this. A team from the Colonial Athletic Association ekes into the NCAA tournament with a 23-7 record, suddenly becomes a giant killer, makes the Final Four, and is never seen or heard from again. Sigmund Freud? Bueller? Every year,

These NCAA Tourney teams come from nowhere to steal our hearts

The catwalk and scoreboard were shaking. Bolts rained down from a ripped-open panel of the roof, and insulation fluttered in the air like snow. For a brief moment, the lives of 20,000 people inside the Georgia Dome depended on the

Several years ago, I invited a couple of friends over for an Alabama football game. (For reference, this would have been Texas A&M-Alabama in 2013 in College Station. You’ll remember this was the 49-42 game when Johnny Manziel nearly brought

The league’s first conference tournament in Music City took place 35 years ago, and those of us who attended can tell you it was one of the best

It’s time for Alabama basketball to stop being nice. If the Crimson Tide fails to make the NCAA tournament this year, it should decline a bid to the NIT. “But Al, that’s not the proper thing to do. What will

Legion Field in Birmingham, like any great venue, has a way of separating the champions from the chaff. Such was the case for University of Florida running back Emmitt Smith. In only his third college game, Smith rushed for 224