The history of baseball is rich with legendary figures, but the players of the Negro League often remain in the background. Now, their story is being told in Birmingham ... "This was one of the fields that had the largest attendance that I had a chance to play at when we played here in 1957 we had a full house," Former Negro League baseball player, Sam Allen says. ... Rickwood Field is more than an historic landmark for Allen, its a step back in time ... "1957 we kicked them and then I came
SOUTH BEND, IN. - Woodrow Lowe, a star Alabama linebacker during the 1970s will be among 23 players inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame during ceremonies Friday and Saturday the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind. ... Known as one of the hardest hitting linebackers in the history of Alabama's prestigious program, Lowe led the Crimson Tide to the 1973 national title as a three-time First Team All-America selection. Playing under legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant,
Russell W. Read, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of ophthalmology and pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been selected to chair the committee that oversees the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s (AAO) Basic and Clinical Science Course (BCSC) on Intraocular Inflammation and Uveitis ...
While the oil spill in the Gulf may have a profound impact on those who make their living in the region, children in the area may also feel the stress, says University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) child psychologist Vivian Friedman, Ph.D ...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Visual Arts Gallery is showing “Men at War, Women at Leisure,” a selection of works on paper from the university’s collection through July 31, 2010 ...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Engineering is the recipient of an Institutional Award of Excellence from the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) ...
Attorney General Troy King is asking a federal district court to dismiss the U.S. Justice Department’s challenge to the State of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law ...
Bill Connelly and the guys over at Football Outsiders are continuing their countdown of the top 100 college football teams of all-time, and in their most recent installment they reveal their #49 team: the 1986 Penn State Nittany Lions. Most of you will probably remember that team well given their monumental victory over Miami in the 1987 Fiesta Bowl. Jerry Sandusky's defensive schemes confused Heisman Trophy winner Vinny Testaverde all night long, and the five interceptions he threw created the
One of the pieces of writing I've always enjoyed reading and re-reading over the years is The Future By Way of the Past series posted many years ago by an anonymous member of Tider Insider. Now, admittedly, I have no clue who wrote those pieces -- obviously, though, it was someone with a fairly decent degree of insight-- and admittedly I don't agree with everything written, but even so I tend to think the series as a whole does a nice job of summarizing many of the issues at play from the end
This week, Roll Bama Roll has invited CocknFire of Team Speed Kills -- the SB Nation website covering all things pertaining to the Southeastern Conference -- to review Bragging Rights: A Season Inside the SEC, College Football’s Toughest Conference , the Richard Ernsberger Jr. book on the 1999 football season in the greatest conference in the country ... By the time you get two-thirds of the way into Bragging Rights: A Season Inside the SEC, College Football’s Toughest Conference , you