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Alabama guard Trevor Lacey speaks to an official during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Florida. Photo: John Bazemore/The Associated Press

Reports: Ex-Tide star Lacey lands at N.C. State

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Jun 17, 2013 |

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Former Alabama basketball guard Trevor Lacey is headed to North Carolina State, according to Scout.com’s Pack Pride website and multiple other news orginations.

Joe Medley's In My Opinion: Did a coach motivate his team? How dare he?
Is anyone really surprised that “Beat Bama” is on the wall of a meeting room in the Auburn football complex? Was anyone surprised when Nick Saban, during his hiring news conference at Alabama, said he will work 365 days a year to dominate the Crimson Tide’s in-state rival? If anyone is outraged or looking to be -- and some always do in this state, on both sides of the partisan divide -- here’s a reality check. Coaches must motivate their teams and, to an extent, their fan bases.

Jun 13, 2013 |

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Harvey Updyke departs the Lee County Justice Center in Opelika on Monday. Under terms of his probation, he is forbidden from attending any collegiate sports event, will have a 7 p.m. curfew and is banned from Auburn University. (Dave Martin/Associated Press)

Updyke freed, wants not to be heard from again
The University of Alabama fan who poisoned Auburn University’s landmark oak trees at Toomer’s Corner has been released from jail and cleared to leave the state.

Jun 10, 2013 |

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Alabama's Nick Saban. (Associated Press photo)

Saban's scheduled appearance in Tennessee causes stir
Alabama coach Nick Saban’s planned appearance at a benefit event Tuesday in Tennessee shows the Crimson Tide-Volunteers rivalry is alive and well, even if it’s been one-sided lately.

Jun 10, 2013 |

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Alabama coach Nick Saban has his program pointed in the right direction academically as well as athletically. (Photo by Mike Brantley/Associated Press)

Joe Medley's In My Opinion: This APR news is blow to those who knock SEC
To those invested in the notion that SEC wins national championships by shrugging off the classroom, there’s bad news. That Alabama football team, which has won three of the past four Bowl Championship Series titles? It just won the NCAA Division I Public Recognition Award for the team's latest multi-year NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate.

Jun 06, 2013 |

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Former Alabama basketball player Andrew Steele talks to Kiyreanna Abernathy, 7, at Sarrell Dental on Wednesday. (Photo by Bill Wilson/Anniston Star)

Reaching out: Ex-Alabama player working with children at Sarrell
Former Alabama basketball player Andrew Steele has accepted a job as a community outreach manager for Sarrell Dental, an Anniston-based non-profit organization that benefits economically disadvantaged children.

Jun 05, 2013 |

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Former Tide QB Freddie Kitchens undergoes heart surgery
Arizona Cardinals assistant coach Freddie Kitchens, a former Alabama quarterback, underwent heart surgery Tuesday night to correct a defect to his aorta.

Jun 05, 2013 |

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Jacksonville State's Paschal Petrongolo made the Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-America team. (Photo by Steve Latham/Jacksonville State University)

One from JSU, two from Tide made Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American
Alabama's Mikey White and Ray Castillo and Jacksonville State designated hitter Paschal Petrongolo were selected to the Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-America team.

Jun 05, 2013 |

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Devonta Pollard averaged 3.9 points and 3.1 rebounds a game last season. (Associated Press file photo)

Alabama basketball player charged in connection with kidnapping
Three more people, including a University of Alabama basketball player, were arrested Tuesday in the April kidnapping of a 6-year-old girl from east Mississippi, authorities said. Sheriff James Moore in Kemper County, Miss., told WTOK-TV that Devonta Pollard, a forward on the University of Alabama men's basketball team, and Joyce Johnigan were arrested Tuesday on a charge of conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Shaquayla Johnigan was arrested in Hattiesburg on the same charge, Moore said.

Jun 04, 2013 |

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Joe Medley's In My Opinion: Gee whiz, will the choir retire with the preacher?
This writer from SEC country just read news of Ohio State president Gordon Gee’s retirement and thought to write a response. We do read and write around here, and we count. The number 14 does not equal 10, as in Big Ten. Just sayin’.

Jun 04, 2013 |

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Notre Dame won't release ex-Tide recruit to play at UCLA
A highly rated defensive lineman from California who signed a letter of intent in February to play for Notre Dame has changed his mind and plans to enroll at UCLA. There has been speculation for weeks that 6-foot-3, 285-pound Eddie Vanderdoes of Auburn, Calif., was reconsidering playing for Notre Dame.

Jun 04, 2013 |

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Troy rallied in the ninth against Alabama pitcher Ray Castillo, right, and sent the Crimson Tide home from the NCAA tournament. (Photo by Phil Sears/Associated Press)

Joe Medley's In My Opinion: One big letdown for Tide baseball
It seems longer than a week ago when Alabama’s baseball program celebrated progress, of sorts. Making the NCAA tournament after not making it a year ago is progress, but Alabama snatched the feel of digression from the jaws of progression at the Tallahassee Regional. The Tide’s one victory was a 3-2, near-miss against the No. 4 seed, Savannah State, which went 0-2 in its first NCAA try as a Division I school.

Jun 03, 2013 |

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Alabama's Brett Booth (5) is caught off base by Troy first baseman Trae Santos (19) in the fourth inning of their NCAA tournament game Sunday. (Photo by Phil Sears/Associated Press)

Last decision will haunt Tide's baseball team in off-season
Troy completed a rally from a four-run deficit with four runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to eliminate Alabama from the NCAA Tallahassee Regional on Sunday 9-8. Alabama finished its season 35-28.

Jun 02, 2013 |

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Alabama golfers, from left to right, Bobby Wyatt, Justin Thomas, Scott Strohmeyer, Cory Whitsett and assistant coach Rob Bradley poses with the NCAA championship trophy after defeating Illinois in the final round of play Sunday. (Photo by John Bazemore/Associated Press)

Once the national championship was clinched, Tide golfers celebrated like crazy
Once he heard the news, Justin Thomas dropped his clubs on the 18th fairway and took off toward the 15th green. The sophomore didn't want to miss the celebration. Alabama men’s golf team had just clinched its first NCAA championship Sunday with a 4-1 victory over Illinois at the Crabapple Course at the Capital City Club, giving the university a total of six championships in two years.

Jun 02, 2013 |

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Alabama's Scott Strohmeyer, right, hugs a teammate after defeating Illinois in the final round of play in the NCAA tournament. (Photo by John Bazemore/Associated Press)

NCAA golf: Alabama wins a national title
Alabama has won its first national championship in men’s golf. A year after losing to Texas in the finals, the Crimson Tide routed Illinois 4-1 in the match-play final Sunday at Capital City Club’s Crabapple Course north of Atlanta.

Jun 02, 2013 |

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Alabama coach Anthony Grant and the Tide need to worry about beating the teams they schedule, rather than making the schedule tougher. (Photo by Mark Humphrey/Associated Press/File)

Mark Edwards' In My Opinion: SEC doesn't need to review hoops schedules
Honestly, SEC basketball teams don’t necessarily need to schedule better opponents. Instead, they just need to beat the teams they are scheduling.

Jun 01, 2013 |

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Justin Thomas' win clinched Alabama's win over Georgia Tech. (Photo courtesy of University of Alabama athletics)

NCAA golf: Alabama makes finals for second straight year
Third-seeded Alabama again dominated its opponent in the semifinals of the NCAA men’s golf tournament, defeating No. 2-seeded Georgia Tech 3-0-2 at Crabapple Courseat the Capital City Club. With the win, the Crimson Tide advances to the championship match for the second straight year. Alabama, which lost to Texas last year, will face No. 5-seeded Illinois, which knocked off top-seeded California in extra holes. The match is set for 7 a.m.

Jun 01, 2013 |

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The Crimson Tide will play either Troy or Florida State on Sunday. (AP file photo)

NCAA baseball: Troy is next for Alabama
Alabama remained alive in the NCAA tournament by beating Savannah State 3-2 in a regional elimination game Saturday.

Jun 01, 2013 |

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Senior Scott Strohmeyer scored a 4-and-3 win Friday to help Alabama to a team win over New Mexico. (Photo by University of Alabama athletics)

NCAA men's golf: Tide advances with a blowout
The third-seeded Alabama men’s golf team defeated New Mexico 4-1 on Friday in the NCAA match-play quarterfinals. The Crimson Tide will face second-seeded Georgia Tech at 9:45 a.m. on Saturday for a spot in the Sunday's finals.

May 31, 2013 |

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Austin Peay coach Gary McClure celebrates a game-winning home run against Florida in Friday's NCAA tournament play. (Photo by Doug McSchooler/Associated Press)

Mark Edwards' In My Opinion: Big, bad SEC crumbles a bit in NCAA baseball
On the same afternoon in which Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive announced record revenues of $289.4 million this year, the league’s baseball teams did a collective nosedive in the NCAA tournament.

May 31, 2013 |

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SEC commissioner Mike Slive's league enjoyed a record-setting year as far as revenue. (Associated Press photo)

SEC to distribute record $20.7 million to its schools
Southeastern Conference schools will receive an average of a record $20.7 million as part of the league’s revenue sharing plan for the 2012-13 fiscal year. According to SEC commissioner Mike Slive, the SEC will distribute $289.4 million. That beats the old record of $244 million set last year.

May 31, 2013 |

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Alabama's Georgie Salem hits a single in the third inning in Friday's loss to Troy. (Photo by Phil Sears/Associated Press)

NCAA baseball: Troy knocks Alabama into losers' bracket
The third-seeded Troy Trojans’ put up a five-run fourth inning off Alabama starting pitcher Charley Sullivan, highlighted by Trae Santos’ three-run home run, and pitchers Shane McCain, Nate Hill and Tanner Hicks combined to help send second-seeded Alabama to the losers’ bracket.

May 31, 2013 |

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Phillip Sims was AJ McCarron's backup for Alabama's 2011 national championship team, before spending the 2012 season at Virginia. (Associated Press file photo)

Ex-Tide QB Sims ineligible to play at Virginia
Quarterback Phillip Sims' time at Virginia is finished. The heralded transfer from Alabama is ineligible to play and will leave the university after completing his current summer school session, coach Mike London announced Friday.

May 31, 2013 |

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