Joseph Goodman

Birmingham

Senior Reporter at AL.com

Articles

Goodman: For a cup of coffee, I can fix college football

4 days 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. ____________________Something Nick Saban said a few weeks ago keeps coming back to me. It was a statement about the future of college football, and I find myself thinking about it at least once a day. This was back before SEC Spring Meetings, which Saban didn’t attend because he’s smart, owns his own beach house and has better things to do than waste his time.
Goodman: Bruce Pearl, say it ain’t so

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 would be a stunning blow to college basketball if Bruce Pearl, at the height of his power, suddenly walked away from the sport he loves to be a full-time politician. Please no. Not now.
Goodman: Are Greg Sankey and Kirby Smart suffering from amnesia?

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. _____________________SEC commissioner Greg Sankey might have caved under pressure once, but he can’t afford to let it happen again. Sankey needs to stay strong about the new playoff format. His league should get at least four teams in the College Football Playoff every year when the postseason tournament expands to 16 seeds. Let’s be clear, though.
Goodman: His friends died on Iwo Jima, but Rev. Bill Greason still prays

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. ____________________This Memorial Day, I’ll be thinking about Corporal Hubert Devarney, Private James Wilkins and all the American soldiers who gave their lives during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Wilkins was from Texas and Devarney was from New York. They were friends with Birmingham Black Barons legend Rev. Bill Greason. Greason called them closer than brothers.
Goodman: Forget a Presidential commission, it’s time for Nick Saban to return to coaching

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. ____________________Forget a useless Presidential commission on college football. If Nick Saban really wants to affect change for the sport he loves and have fun doing, then he should return to coaching. But not college football. And not even the NFL. Saban should think about coaching the U.S. flag football team in the Olympics.
Goodman: Is Alabama responsible for murderer in locker room and living with a player?

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 capital murder conviction for Michael Davis in the shooting death of Jamea Harris puts new scrutiny on the roles and responsibilities of Alabama’s coaches and administrators. After a night of partying with members of the Alabama basketball team, Davis shot and killed Harris in the early morning hours of Jan.15, 2023.
Goodman: Alabama’s own, Chris Richards, dominates the FA Cup final

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. _____________________It’s not just that a kid from Hoover, Ala., won the FA Cup on Saturday in Wembley Stadium. It’s how Chris Richards did it. He didn’t simply represent Alabama and the United States in the world’s oldest national soccer competition. Richards dominated for Crystal Palace in its 1-0 victory against Manchester City. He shined. He starred.
Goodman: Ben Abercrombie set to graduate from Harvard

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 most extraordinary people among us all have one thing in common. They make everyone around them better people. As a sports reporter, I’ve covered and analyzed that phenomenon firsthand with guys like LeBron James, Tim Tebow and Nick Saban. They all share the same trait, and it’s something more than inspiration or leadership.
Goodman: Murder and basketball

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. _____________________From the very beginning, prosecutors in the murder of Jamea Harris knew that they could get a conviction. The evidence was simply overwhelming. There were text messages. There were voice recordings from inside Brandon Miller’s automobile. There was surveillance video. There were witnesses. There was a murder weapon.
Goodman: An American icon made possible by DEI

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. ____________________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.