Kirk McNair

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Alabama Has Most Players On Spring List Of Top 150

1 week ago | 247sports.com | Kirk McNair

Blake Brockermeyer of CBSsports.com has taken on the ambitious task of selecting the top 150 college football players for the 2025 season, which includes the assertion that this list is "the definitive spring rankings."Who could argue? In anything college football related, one would expect Alabama to be high. In this case the Crimson Tide ranks first in number of selections on the top 150 with nine.
Working To Make Right Tackle Right

1 week ago | 247sports.com | Kirk McNair

Wilkin Formby is local man trying to make good as Alabama right tackleVIPIf one thinks to a memory of the 2024 Alabama football season and an image of what was going on at right tackle, that thought might be "Olé!" – a defensive end or outside linebacker having a clear shot to bull over Bama's quarterback. That wasn't on one player, but right tackles had their bad moments at time on the line.
Alabama Softball Downs Oklahoma, Wins Series

1 week ago | 247sports.com | Kirk McNair

Watching Alabama and Oklahoma battling at Rhoads Stadium Monday night as the time and the bottom of the inning both turned to 8, one might have wondered how this rubber game in the series was going to last. In the bottom of the eighth,Not long. After the Sooners failed to score in their top of the inning, it was two minutes. One pitch. Left-handed hitter Audrey Vandagriff lined an opposite field home run, her third hit of the game and a 2-1 win for the Crimson Tide.
Remembering Bill Oliver And Memories He Gave Us

1 week ago | 247sports.com | Kirk McNair

If you have a memory of Alabama's 1992 football team, you probably remember first of all safety Crimson Tide safety George Teague stripping the ball away from Lamar Thomas, saving a touchdown in Bama's 34-13 win in the Sugar Bowl to win the national championship. The second thing you are likely to remember -- maybe the first -- is Miami's Heisman Trophy quarterback, Gino Torretta going up under center to run a play and seeing Bama with 11 defenders on the line of scrimmage.
Vols Steal All Spring Football Headlines

1 week ago | 247sports.com | Kirk McNair

One of Steve Spurrier's jabs for which he was famous was you can't spell Citrus without UT, a slur on Tennessee's inability to get to the big stage in college football championship contention. The Vols, of course, have a far more prominent football history than does Florida.
Alabama Softball Hosting Oklahoma

1 week ago | 247sports.com | Kirk McNair

Alabama Softball Coach Patrick Murphy was recruiting in the summer of 2021 when news leaked out of Birmingham where the Southeastern Conference Media Days event was winding down. Oklahoma and Texas were going to leave the Big 12 and join the SEC. "I thought, 'Oh, boy!'" Murphy said this week when talking to reporters this week as the Crimson Tide prepares to host the dynasty that is Sooners softball.
Awards For Excellence Expected To Be Awarded Saturday

1 week ago | 247sports.com | Kirk McNair

The tradition of presenting awards to Alabama football players who have excelled in the A-Day Game and throughout spring practice dates from 1971, though with many modifications through the years. Former Tide Coach Paul Bryant started the practice, media covering the spring game selecting the most outstanding player in the game for the Dixie Howell Memorial Award and his coaching staff selecting six players in the initial categories for overall spring practice.
Alabama Safety Bray Hubbard On Tide’s Sneaky Players

1 week ago | 247sports.com | Kirk McNair

Bray Hubbard progressed as season went on last year, starting last six games at safetyVIPA prediction prior to Alabama's football practice in Saturday's spot formerly known as the A-Day football game: There will be no quarterback sneaks. That does not mean, however, that there won't be some sneaky players on the field. Alabama safety Bray Hubbard has reported the tight end corps as being sneaky.
Discussions Regarding Jarin Stevenson Entering Portal

2 weeks ago | 247sports.com | Kirk McNair

Remember the Joni Mitchell song, "[I Can See From] Both Sides Now"? In the case of the Jarin Stevenson mini-saga it may take another side. It began with the announcement by the Alabama sophomore guard/forward announcing he had entered the Transfer Portal, complete with the tell-tale "Do not contact" tag -- usually meaning the transfer was arranged before the portal opened.
McNair: Part III Will There Be Reasons To Continue Spring Football Games?

2 weeks ago | 247sports.com | Kirk McNair

Third of three partsTo cut to the chase, the spring football game is a dinosaur and most likely faces the same fate: extinction. This does not strike me to be a galvanizing subject; more apathetic, maybe resigned. For some people, even a spring football game is football (guilty) and want to see it, and particularly want to see players who were not often in view the previous year and will be in the upcoming season.