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Senior sports reporter at @aldotcom . Covered 13 seasons of Alabama football previously. WKU grad. Respecter of all teams.

Birmingham, Ala.
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1 year
Some professional news: After 13 seasons of covering Alabama football, my role at @aldotcom is evolving and I'm excited to explain what that means.
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The @AlabamaFTBL account just posted a tribute to Saban narrated by Tom Rinaldi. Consider this your warning. This might get some of you.
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You’re not going to believe the end of the Hillcrest win over Wetumpka.
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Cop just walked into a smokey LSU locker room dead serious and said everyone smoking a cigar is subject to arrest.
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In terms of event logos and branding, it’s hard to beat The Masters and the Rose Bowl. Who else am I missing?
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Perfectly fitting for Michigan to win the national championship in the city that’s home to the 2017 Houston Astros.
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Sounds like Cleveland fans stole a fire truck, according to the scanner.
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Will Anderson extended a hand to help Terry Saban on the flimsy steps after the Sugar Bowl trophy presentation.
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Nick Saban said he’s already seen how the eclipse will look on the Weather Channel so he doesn’t really care.
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Ed Orgeron recorded a coronavirus PSA.
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Nick Saban is asked about his level of concern regarding Michigan’s sign stealing scandal. Watch Jim Harbaugh’s body language during the answer.
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A high-energy Dixieland Delight under the lights.
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Alabama students didn’t rush the floor after beating Auburn. The players rushed the student section.
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Nick Saban responds to @Lane_Kiffin comments about him being elderly, unable to cover him if he was a DB in a game.
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Will Anderson makes his exit with tears in his eyes.
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Alabama seniors just came back out of the locker room for one more photo on the field.
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DeVonta Smith said he came back to school to get his degree so he can be a coach one day.
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Mac Jones beat Joe Burrow by one passing yard for the CFP title game record.
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Will Reichard never missed a kick this year and he was never jinxed.
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Alabama women’s wheelchair basketball team just won the national championship.
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“Most people think a 10-2 record is a good thing. That’s not our standard,” Saban said.
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Alabama crowd chanting "NIT, NIT, NIT" at Kentucky as the Crimson Tide leads, 70-41.
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Tua Tagovailoa by the quarter: 1st: 30-42, 596 yards, 8 TDs 2nd: 24-27, 337 yards, 4 TDs 3rd: 12-19, 228 yards, 2 TDs 4th: 0-0, 0 yards, 0 TDs
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Nick Saban diagrams the final play of Alabama’s win over Texas A&M.
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Two generations of Dre Kirkpatricks on the field after the Rose Bowl.
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The University of Alabama announces it will resume full in-person classes without capacity restrictions for the fall 2021 semester.
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Nick Saban is leading the march for social justice from the Alabama football complex to Foster Auditorium.
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The first two seats in front for Kalen DeBoer’s news conference.
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The most powerful person in Tuscaloosa and her husband.
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And they’re out.
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3 years
Funny moment just now in Alabama player interviews. I asked Jordan Battle about his favorite Nick Saban coaching saying. Innocent enough. Battle: “Touch deez or suck on deez.” We’ll probably never get him again after that but what a moment.
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“I will be back,” Alabama WR Agiye Hall posts on his Instagram.
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Alabama’s DeVonta Smith is the first WR named AP college football player of the year.
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University of Alabama reports more than 500 confirmed COVID-19 cases.
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Nick Saban has a new PSA in which he rips Big Al the mascot for not wearing a mask.
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University of Alabama on-campus testing had a 29% positivity rate Thursday. It was less than 1% on re-entry tests.
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Brandon Miller thanks the crowd for coming. Drops a crimson crane for good measure.
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Terry Saban had to say hi to Mark Ingram in the commercial break. He lit up.
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TCU vs. 2012 Notre Dame would make a great Gator Bowl.
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Will Anderson said they look forward to getting to work for next season.
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Former Alabama QB Mac Jones headed to the Pro Bowl after his rookie season, the Patriots announced.
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Alabama WR John Metchie said he saw Auburn players mocking their TD celebration. “I’d say, Roll Tide, we won,” he said.
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Four years ago tonight.
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Heisman winner DeVonta Smith said he went home last night and went straight to sleep. “Now it’s in the past and it’s on to Ohio State.”
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An extended cut of the Dixieland Delight video.
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Alabama beat 3 of the 4 Final Four teams from last year.
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“It makes me feel like a proud papa,” Nick Saban said on ABC with 6 Alabama players drafted in the first round.
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Alabama's defense has allowed 15 touchdowns this season, tied for 6th fewest in the FBS. Of those 15, seven came at Tennessee.
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The Alabama women’s wheelchair basketball team won the national championship today, 50-48 over Illinois.
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The scene following the Rose Bowl final play, Jalen Milroe’s exit to the locker room
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Alabama OL Evan Neal said he got a text from Bryce Young right after the Heisman Trophy ceremony thanking him for his part in the award.
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“I don’t have an opinion about everyone else’s opinion,” Nick Saban said on any criticism of Monday’s march.
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Seriously, this Alabama team’s story arc is the craziest I’ve seen. They were dead after losing to Texas. Even deader a week later at USF. Now they just ended No. 1 Georgia’s SEC record winning streak in the league title game. Insane.
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Quite a scene in the Alabama locker room after the win over Georgia.
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From a box on the east side of Bryant-Denny Stadium, Nick Saban watches the Alabama football team take the field for the first time after retiring as head coach.
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2 years
Possibly the worst half of offensive football I’ve seen Alabama play in the 12 years I’ve covered the team.
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4 years
Maybe Alabama should have made the playoff.
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That’s respect.
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Tua one crutching it.
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FWIW, Cedric told me he’s not retiring.
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Cedric Burns watched the festivities.
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Nick Saban arrives at the Alabama team hotel in Baton Rouge.
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Tua and his WRs were posed for pics after beating Auburn.
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Alabama football and basketball combined to beat LSU 160-92 this year.
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A message from Terry Saban posted on the Nick’s Kids Facebook page.
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Three years ago today, Mac Jones drawing up plays in pencil as the head coach of a sorority intramural coach. He’s the New England Patriots starting QB now.
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Nick Saban, 2020.
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Good morning from Alabama football practice.
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Respect for the last holdout in the sea of high rise apartments going up near Bryant-Denny Stadium.
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2 years
Out here checking out Texas A&M yell practice in Birmingham and here’s what we found.
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Dan Mullen said Marco Wilson made a football move, the shoe was in his hand and he threw it and it wasn’t meant to taunt LSU.
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Former Alabama QB Blake Sims made his movie debut as the FAU quarterback in the new Disney movie Safety. He shared this screenshot on Instagram.
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The moment Tony Brown saw Reuben Foster in the locker room last night.
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“I’m not apologizing for having a program ... that’s trying to get into the playoffs as much as possible,” Saban said.
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Lewis just signed with Alabama.
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LSU coach Brian Kelly is dancing again — this time with TE target Danny Lewis. Rate his dance moves 🕺👇
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Jameson Williams becomes the first player in Alabama history to return two kickoffs for touchdowns in the same game.
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Watching Saban try to figure out Pat McAfee in real time is something.
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4 years
Tua Tagovailoa released this trailer almost two hours ago.
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JK Scott’s punts against Chicago: 1. 53 yards 2. 42 yards 3. 47 yards 4. 63 yards! 5. 36 yards (inside 15 yard-line) 6. 37 yards (inside 10) 7. 50 yards 8. 37 yards (inside 13) 9. 63 yards!!
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3 years
Alabama 43, Mississippi State 13. Not football.
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Picked Missouri to cover the spread and this is the email I received.
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Nick Saban’s rant about believing the hype and bad practices after beating Miami.
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Jaylen Waddle just posted these pictures to Instagram of him smoking a cigar with his receiver teammates in the back of an ambulance.
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If you’re an Alabama looking to feel underappreciated, kicker Will Reichard wasn’t a first- or second-team All-SEC pick. He didn’t miss a kick in 11 games.
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Mac Jones finished the season with exactly 4,500 passing yards, 41 touchdowns and a 77.4 completion percentage.
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This is quite a day to be an Alabama athletics supporter.
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John Metchie waiting by the Alabama tunnel to comfort his teammates as they walk by.
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Alabama is unbeaten in 15 SEC football and basketball games this season.
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Alabama players sprint to the Tide fans. Band plays Rammer Jammer.
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DeVonta Smith hit them with the Heisman pose.
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“It’s like playing Madden ... in Madden.” Another Quinnen Williams soundbite.
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“There’s no illness. Miss Terry is fine. I am fine,” Saban says on ESPN.
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3 years
The Empire State Building will be lit crimson tonight for DeVonta Smith.
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Perhaps the most electric moment of the night.
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Bo Scarbrough is the first to lift the USFL trophy.
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The KO punch.
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A few renderings of the proposed new Alabama basketball arena.
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Alabama teammates visiting Tua in the hospital.
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4 years
For the first time in 8 months, 25 day or 269 sunrises, it is now officially Alabama football game day.
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He looks happy.
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Nick Saban was hired at Alabama 15 years ago today.
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