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BEST SPORTS COVERAGEBy JIMMY WIGFIELD Saraland quarterback Jamison Roberts announced his list of eight finalists on Monday, including Auburn, Ole Miss and Oklahoma. The other finalists are Arkansas, Kentucky, Duke, Northwestern and Iowa. “He’s playing the game at a level where it’s easy for all these decision makers to watch his tape and say, ‘Wow, this kid is going to be special,’” Spartans coach Jeff Kelly said. “Just about every program in the country has been through here. He’s taking…
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AUBURN, Ala. — Alabama’s 96-92 victory over Auburn on Saturday after it had been shoved to the precipice of a humiliating defeat, then refused to be packed up and sent back to Tuscaloosa in a sausage casing, might be a turning point for the Crimson Tide. Or it might be merely a gratifying few hours in which it defoliated the rowdy Jungle for the second straight year and cast its spine before the Pearls. The…
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By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Class 6A football playoffs will expand to 24 teams this year and the Super 7 in Mobile will be conducted over five days in December, the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s Central Board voted on Friday. The Super 7 — which will be played in Mobile at Hancock Whitney Stadium for the first time this year — has always been played over three days. The five-day pilot program was brought…
Read the Full StoryTerry Curtis’ legacy is far from complete as he seeks win No. 362, which might be the biggest of all
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — When lifetime achievement awards are bestowed on coaches, there is a tendency to think they can do nothing more to make their profession and their sport better. Terry Curtis did not feel a door closing behind him Saturday upon receiving such a commendation, although his emotions leaked out when his life flashed before his eyes in a video presentation that included everything from a brown-haired Curtis wearing a Shaw T-shirt when he first became a…
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____________________ “I am not trying to outsmart the other coach so much as outsmart his kids. As a coach, you may see what they’re fixing to do but you ain’t got time to tell those 11 kids in those five seconds.” Danny Powell _______________________________ By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Danny Powell is an extremely complex man and coach who always preferred to appear that he was as uncomplicated as a sundial, except he worked best…
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By JIMMY WIGFIELD The state’s private schools did not declare an open rebellion and sever ties with the Alabama High School Athletic Association at a meeting in Montgomery Friday but headmasters and coaches hope they can build enough leverage to alter some of last week’s historic changes. The AHSAA’s Central Board voted on Jan. 23 to split the public and private schools for postseason play, eliminate the 1.35 multiplier and competitive balance rules for private schools and…
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By JIMMY WIGFIELD Mary G. Montgomery and Saraland — the two preeminent football teams in the Mobile area the last four years — will play each other in a two-year home-and-home series beginning this season in Semmes. The Class 6A Vikings and the Class 5A Spartans will open the season on Aug. 21 in Semmes and open the 2027 season in Saraland. “It’s an exciting way to kick the season off,” Saraland coach Jeff Kelly said Friday.…
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama coach Nate Oats is not one to make excuses, although he could have. He could have said a 79-73 loss to Tennessee Saturday night would have been averted if the injured Aden Holloway and Amari Allen — who average 29 points per game combined — had played. He could have said the No. 17-ranked Crimson Tide nearly won despite getting few uncontested shots, despite the Volunteers’ long wingspan that made Alabama feel as…
Read the Full StoryMONTGOMERY, Ala. — Friday’s pronouncement by the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s Central Board was a compromise designed to keep high school athletics from completely rupturing and to keep inept politicians with misguided and possibly corrupt motives from interfering in areas they have no expertise in. But the verdict to keep public and private schools together except for the playoffs doesn’t mean all the controversy and maneuvering are over. For one, the AHSAA could alter course two years from…
Read the Full StoryAHSAA splits public and private schools for playoffs, gets rid of multiplier and competitive balance
By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama High School Athletic Association’s Central Board shook the ground under the feet of athletics on Friday and it will take two years or more to see the fallout. In an historic move, the Central Board voted 13-2 to separate public and private schools for postseason play, removed the competitive balance and multiplier rules that private schools have long felt were punitive and will allow athletes who transfer to private…
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