Christopher Walsh

1 week ago | si.com | Christopher Walsh

Rubin E. Grant, a pioneer in Alabama journalism and one the of the 50 Legends of the Alabama Sports Writers Association, has died. He was 68. HIs career spanned from reporting on Paul W. "Bear" Bryant's teams to local high school football stars like Bo Jackson, Cornelius Bennett, and Carnell “Cadillac” Williams. After 25 years of covering minor-league baseball he was inducted into the Birmingham Barons Hall of Fame.

1 week ago | easthamptonstar.com | Christopher Walsh

There was a time, before laptops and samplers and entire libraries of virtual orchestras, when musicians got together in a room and played instruments and sang. These sounds would be recorded on magnetic tape, massaged with compressors and equalizers and reverbs, mixed, mastered, pressed onto vinyl discs, sold in a shop, and taken home to be listened to from start to finish, perhaps hundreds of times. Does that sound like ancient history? To some, it might.

1 week ago | si.com | Christopher Walsh

Sometimes during the offseason we like to revisit these things and remind ourselves ... Crimson Tikes: Roll Tide Code / Anthony SiscoCartoons by Anthony Sisco highlighting the lighter side of Alabama's football ... and basketball team, coaches and rabid fans (and sometimes UA's other sports). See Also: Shell GameCrimson Tikes: Recruitin' / Anthony Sisco"Crimson Tikes" is the brainchild of Anthony Sisco, who is passionate about all things Crimson Tide.

2 weeks ago | si.com | Christopher Walsh

Although Alabama has the Southeastern Conference market cornered when it comes to winning heritage and an established place in pop culture, the University of Georgia is a worthy compatriot when it comes to elite status, especially when you consider its familiar icons. We’re talking about names like Herschel Walker, Wally Butts and Pop Warner. It’s “between the hedges” “silver britches” and a famous bulldog name Uga.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Christopher Walsh

Alabama's rich sports history goes far beyond what most fans realize, especially when the state isn't home to any franchises of the major team sports. For example, baseball's Hank Aaron was born and raised in the Mobile area. Willie Mays starred at Fairfield Industrial High School and for the Birmingham Black Barons before signing with the New York Giants in 1950, when he was just 19 years old. Other state legends include Jesse Owens, Bart Starr, Alice Coachman Davis, Bo Jackson and Mia Hamm.