Joseph Goodman

Birmingham

Senior Reporter at AL.com

Articles

Goodman: An American icon made possible by DEI

1 week ago | al.com | Joseph Goodman

Get Joe Goodman’s newsletter: Enter your email to subscribe to Joe’s weekly newsletter, Sports Happy Hour: This is an opinion column. ____________________People like President Donald Trump struggle with the idea of diversity, equity and inclusion. Why is it important, they ask? Should it be banned from the military? Should it be eliminated from our schools and libraries? It all seems so ridiculous whenever I visit with Rev.
Goodman: How many games does Hugh Freeze need to win to keep his job at Auburn

1 week ago | al.com | Joseph Goodman

Get Joe Goodman’s newsletter: Enter your email to subscribe to Joe’s weekly newsletter, Sports Happy Hour: This is an opinion column. ____________________Hugh Freeze might have abandoned his initial plan for Auburn football and gone 11-17 in his first two seasons, but that doesn’t mean the Tigers’ coach is destined to be a bust. It just means the plan was unsound and that Freeze has the ability to adjust. Maybe I’m giving Freeze too much credit, but I’ll take that as positive growth.
Goodman: Turning back the clock, Trump looks to the future

1 week ago | al.com | Joseph Goodman

Get Joe Goodman’s newsletter: Enter your email to subscribe to Joe’s weekly newsletter, Sports Happy Hour: This is an opinion column. _____________________It felt a little like game day in Tuscaloosa on Thursday when High Noon, White Claw and Coors Light in Cut Off Sleeves walked up to 13th Street and Hackberry Lane. It was around 6 p.m. and a handful of people had figured out that the Presidential motorcade wasn’t going through the front of Coleman Coliseum, but around the back.
Goodman: Is Shedeur Sanders a victim of NFL racism or something else?

2 weeks ago | al.com | Joseph Goodman

Get Joe Goodman’s newsletter: Enter your email to subscribe to Joe’s weekly newsletter, Sports Happy Hour: This is an opinion column. ____________________The NFL Draft spectacle surrounding quarterback Shedeur Sanders has turned into a question about race and it’s difficult for me to understand. Is the NFL collectively racist for not selecting Sanders before the fifth round?
Goodman: Nick Saban and Taylor Swift together? It’s an MLB dream

3 weeks ago | al.com | Joseph Goodman

Get Joe Goodman’s newsletter: Enter your email to subscribe to Joe’s weekly newsletter, Sports Happy Hour: This is an opinion column. ____________________If Nick Saban wants to make a major splash into the pro sports world, then there’s an easy way to ensure the kind of reach he enjoyed while at Alabama. Partner with the biggest name in entertainment, Taylor Swift. Saban’s influence as a businessman is expanding in the Southeast, according to a report by Forbes.
Goodman: In honor of Jalen Hurts, we’re taking receipts to the NFL Draft

3 weeks ago | al.com | Joseph Goodman

Get Joe Goodman’s newsletter: Enter your email to subscribe to Joe’s weekly newsletter, Sports Happy Hour: This is an opinion column. ____________________The NFL Draft is this weekend, which means it’s time to pull out the receipts and slap them on the table of shame. From the City of Brotherly Love, it’s time to collect a debt, and from ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, and maybe even Nick Saban, too. What were y’all thinking? With Saban, at least there was an excuse.
Goodman: In the SEC, some schools would rather lose than pay up

3 weeks ago | al.com | Joseph Goodman

Get Joe Goodman’s newsletter: Enter your email to subscribe to Joe’s weekly newsletter, Sports Happy Hour: This is an opinion column. ____________________Tennessee didn’t want to pay Nico Iamaleava for what the quarterback was worth. Despite most everything you’ve heard or read, it was an enormous mistake by the Volunteers to let Iamaleava walk. He’s a good quarterback with playoff experience, a returning starter in the SEC who knew the Vols’ system and a player who teammates respected.
Goodman: Did Alabama make a mistake by naming Ty Simpson the starter?

4 weeks ago | al.com | Joseph Goodman

Get Joe Goodman’s newsletter: Enter your email to subscribe to Joe’s weekly newsletter, Sports Happy Hour: This is an opinion column. ____________________A curious thing happened in Tuscaloosa to close out spring practice. New offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb met with reporters on Monday, and, without being asked, offered up that Ty Simpson would be the starting quarterback if the season began this week. After all the speculation. After all the guessing. It wasn’t exactly Tua vs.
Goodman: In a win for Alabama, Tennessee is too poor to pay a QB

1 month ago | al.com | Joseph Goodman

Get Joe Goodman’s newsletter: Enter your email to subscribe to Joe’s weekly newsletter, Sports Happy Hour: This is an opinion column. ____________________The current levels of fan apathy for Alabama spring football could be much worse. At least the Crimson Tide isn’t as pathetic as Tennessee. In Tuscaloosa, everyone had better things to do than attend A-Day on a beautiful spring day.
Goodman: Is ‘our way of life’ more important than college football? No!

1 month ago | al.com | Joseph Goodman

Get Joe Goodman’s newsletter: Enter your email to subscribe to Joe’s weekly newsletter, Sports Happy Hour: This is an opinion column. _____________________The Final Four gets a postscript with this week’s mailbag, and apparently Auburn coach Bruce Pearl has some work to do … plus we dip our pinky toe into a molten vat of President Donald Trump’s curious form of statecraft. Jeff in Dothan writes …Like most AU fans and alums I am proud of our guys and the coaches, too.