Sports — Page 46

HUNTSVILLE — The Huntsville Hurricanes, the city’s newest entry in minor league sports, will hold tryouts this weekend for the 2022-23 season. The tryouts are Saturday at 10 a.m. and […]

MADISON — The playoff-bound Rocket City Trash Pandas return to Toyota Field this week for their final homestand of the regular season. While the arch-rival Birmingham Barons may be in […]

Bryce Harper runs against Texas

It was supposed to be a boring weekend in college football

There were a few marquee games this week, sure. On balance, it was supposed to be a boring weekend in college football. Of course, it didn’t end up that way. […]

Gameday Saturday: Touchdowns and touch-ups

FLORENCE — A final swipe of Wild Berry lipstick and I’m ready. I’ve been looking forward to this all week. The anticipation is killing me, and I hope things turn out […]

HUNTSVILLE – Take me out to the hiring fair! Booz Allen Hamilton in Huntsville is doing something different this year with its partnership with the Rocket City Trash Pandas. The […]

HUNTSVILLE – The Korn Ferry Tour and the Huntsville Championship announced Wednesday a five-year partnership with HomeTown Lenders to serve as the event’s official title sponsor. The tournament will formally […]

Trash Pandas to open 2023 season at Toyota Field

MADISON – For the first time in the team’s short history, the Rocket City Trash Pandas will host a season-opening game. The Trash Pandas released their 2023 schedule and will […]

TUSCALOOSA — The University of Alabama Million Dollar Band will not be joining the football team on its trip to Austin, Texas, for Saturday’s game. The band will not attend […]

Florida Gators celebrate

College football back exactly the way we wanted

“I don’t want to wish the summer away, but I sure do wish football would come back tomorrow,” my father would say to me, without fail, most days in the […]

Trash Pandas trio combine for no-hitter

MADISON – In a historic pitching performance Saturday night, Rocket City Trash Pandas pitchers Chase Silseth, Luke Murphy, and Eric Torres combined to throw the first no-hitter in franchise history […]

FLORENCE — To mark the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX, the University of North Alabama has announced a $50 for 50 campaign to support its women’s athletic […]

HUNTSVILLE – There is more than college football starting their competitive seasons this week. Radiance Technologies, in partnership with the Independence Bowl Foundation, kicked off the college football bowl season […]

College Football Notebook: Week Zero

Well, that was certainly something. The “non-opener” opening weekend of college football brought as much drama as it could. Now, let the real games begin. We’re ready to look ahead […]

MADISON – The playoff-bound Rocket City Trash Pandas return to Toyota Field this week for their next to last homestand of the regular season. The Biloxi Shuckers, Double-A affiliate of […]

HUNTSVILLE — As part of its 50–year celebration, Girls Inc. of Huntsville is welcoming 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams to the Rocket City. The Fuel Her Fire Sneaker Gala […]

Nick Saban claps during a football game

SEC college football season preview

Take a deep breath. Now, exhale. Last weekend was the last one without football until February. Even then, we’ll mere weeks away from the hidden gems of Spring football. We […]

Loretto's Blade Tidwell on the way up with New York Mets

LORETTO, Tenn. — Less than a month after the New York Mets drafted him, former Loretto High School pitcher Blade Tidwell was called up to Single-A, got the start, and […]

Ohio Stadium

A preview of the non-SEC college football season

There are other college football conferences outside of the SEC. They have conference championships of their own and play against other non-SEC teams in bowl games. They’re all vastly inferior […]

GUNTERSVILLE — Lake Guntersville was featured on the most recent season of “Facing Waves”, a travel paddling show on Bally Sports Southeast. The episode was carried locally on Aug. 6, […]

MADISON — The playoff-bound Rocket City Trash Pandas return to Toyota Field next week for a six-game series against their North Division foes, the Chattanooga Lookouts. The week at Toyota […]

HUNTSVILLE – If you are new to Huntsville, or even of you are not, do you know where to  get information such as what is the nearest park between your […]

Five SEC games that could change the season

The impending college football season will see more parity in the SEC than we’re used to. The SEC West will feature new faces near the top. Georgia might have more […]

UNA earns full NCAA Division I status

FLORENCE — You can go ahead and call them the NCAA Division I University of North Alabama Lions, now. UNA, long a Division II sports power, has completed its requirements of […]

Alabama college football players

Five storylines to come out of SEC Media Days

SEC Media days is over and the final countdown to the college football season has begun. After the great Saban-Fisher war of 2022, expectations were high as to whether we […]