Coach Jim Case stands on the bus as the Jacksonville State baseball team preps for a road trip to Auburn to take on the Tigers last Tuesday. (Photo by Bill Wilson)
May 18, 2013 | 
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For one day in this work-a-day scribe’s life, I got to feel like a part of a college sports team.
In particular, it was Jacksonville State’s baseball team, and let me clarify what I mean about feeling like a part of the team. I happened to have a pair of black Adidas sweats and a red Adidas top, so I wore them to blend in.
Per assignment, I sat in the back of their bus from the moment it left JSU’s campus to the moment it arrived outside of Auburn’s Plainsman Park on Tuesday.
I spent all of JSU’s 6-1 victory at Auburn with the guys in the Gamecocks’ dugout and interacted with players and coaches, then I rode back home in the same seat on the team bus.
I ate the same sandwiches they ate, watched the same videos they watched en route to and from Auburn, used the same bathrooms … one gets the picture.
May 05, 2013 |
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May 05, 2013 |
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Two rain cells blew through Talladega Superspeedway in a tandem draft Sunday, forcing a rain delay of nearly four hours in the Aaron’s 499 NASCAR Sprint Cup race.
The race’s third caution, called for rain, resumed after red flag conditions covered 3 hours, 36 minutes and 6 seconds. Track officials deployed jet dryers twice.
May 05, 2013 |
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A day after having a victory taken away from him because of a caution flag just ahead of the finish line in the Nationwide Series Aaron’s 312, Kasey Kahne got caught up in the “big one” in Sunday’s Sprint Cup Aaron’s 499.
May 04, 2013 |
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Regan Smith charged from seventh to first on the final lap of a green-white-checker finish and was a nose ahead of Joey Logano and Kasey Kahne when the caution flag came out, making Smith the winner and the new Nationwide points leader.
May 04, 2013 |
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Rick Hendrick sees NASCAR’s new Gen-6 car from the perspective of a team owner and car dealer. He loves it both ways.
“Win on Sunday, sell on Monday,” the new International Motorsports Hall of Fame inductee said. “That is true.”
May 04, 2013 |
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Don’t feel like a jilted lover, Talladega Superspeedway. Dale Earnhardt Jr. didn’t really mean it when he said those things this past October, and he can explain.
May 04, 2013 |
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Frank Kimmel is 51 and still fabulous on the ARCA Racing Series.
The nine-time champion dominated Friday’s ARCA International Motorsports Hall of Fame 250 before rain settled in at Talladega Superspeedway, and he was in front when officials flagged the race on lap 73 of 94.
May 03, 2013 |
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Denny Hamlin tweeted caution to notions about his NASCAR racing return from a back injury.
He will get in the No. 11 FedEx Express Toyota to start Sunday’ Aaron’ 499, his first race since his March 24 crash at Fontana. Then he will get out and turn the car over to substitute driver Brian Vickers.
May 03, 2013 |
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Frank Kimmel is 51 and still fabulous on the ARCA Racing Series.
The nine-time champion dominated today's ARCA International Motorsports Hall of Fame 250 before the rain settled in at Talladega Superspeedway, and he was in front when officials flagged the race on lap 73 of 94.
May 03, 2013 |
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Believe it or not, there was a time when Rick Hendrick didn’t feel like he belonged in NASCAR.
It was his first Daytona 500, in 1984, when he walked in as brand new team owner and gulped at the sight of established giants.
May 02, 2013 |
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Original pole winner John Wes Townley’s car failed inspection after Thursday’s qualifying, so Milka Duno will be the first female driver to have pole position at Talladega since Patty Moise in both ARCA races in 1988.
Friday's race will make ARCA’s 51st at Talladega, where no female driver has won an ARCA or NASCAR race. Janet Guthrie made three Talladega starts in the Sprint Cup series, and Moise made one.
May 01, 2013 |
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When Talladega fans think of Elliott Sadler, they see the colorful M&M’s car airborne, flipping or sliding on its roof.
When Elliott Sadler and car owner Joe Gibbs see Talladega, they see Sadler’s history of polls, laps led and — maybe, just maybe — a chance to show he belongs back on NASCAR’s top circuit.
So, maybe it’s not so crazy that the veteran driver, who has hung near the top of the Nationwide Series the past three years, has both Talladega races among his three-race Sprint Cup schedule for this season.
Apr 28, 2013 |
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There are breakthrough playoff berths, and there are breakthrough playoff victories.
Oxford’s and Gardendale’s boys soccer teams came into their first-round playoff match Saturday with the former. Gardendale left with the latter.
Apr 28, 2013 |
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The five seniors who knelt in a long huddle with Oxford baseball coach Wes Brooks on Saturday didn’t finish their careers with nearly the fanfare of last year’s group.
A 6-4 loss to Grissom the deciding game of the Class 6A second round clinched that Oxford’s seniors won’t finish as state champions, though they enjoyed that mob scene in Montgomery’s Riverwalk Stadium as juniors.
Apr 27, 2013 |
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Trent Simpson lived every high school athletes dream, being mobbed by teammates after his game-ending home run won Oxford the first game of a best-of-three, second-round playoff series against Grissom on Friday.
Then he lived every prep athlete’s nightmare, trying to shake off the winning hit he gave up in his first pitching appearance of the season in Game 2.
Apr 24, 2013 |
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It’s tempting to wonder what could have been, if Trent Simpson had a full, healthy senior baseball season at Oxford.
There was his key home run in Game 1 of the state finals a year ago. He’s punctuating this season with quite a power surge, with six home runs over the past two weekends.
His home runs powered the Yellow Jackets (17-15) into the playoffs, then past third-ranked Huntsville in the first round.
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