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BIRMINGHAM — Few positions necessitate practical experience more than quarterback. That’ll be somewhat of an issue for Alabama this fall.
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Michael Casagrande
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A new contract extension approved Tuesday added two years to Alabama football coach Nick Saban’s term while increasing his pay to record levels. With the raise, Saban is believed to be the highest paid coach in the nation, making $5.3 million next season and nearly $6 million in his final contracted year of 2019.
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TUSCALOOSA — Over and over, the defensive lines of the SEC were viewed as the difference between the league and outside competition.
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TUSCALOOSA — C.J. Mosley’s had just made a huge interception in the third quarter of the BCS title game, but the crowd was silent. His hip was out of socket. It didn’t look good.
His gruesome hip injury could’ve threatened a few years of football — possibly his career. But Mosley is back on the field as the Crimson Tide conduct spring workouts.
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The game of football can move real fast for a first-year starting quarterback.
Whoa, did AJ McCarron learn that a year ago. His facial expression when asked about it said that much. Still, he made it out the other side with a national championship ring after things slowed down.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — It was a moment for the dreamers.
Down a point, 2.4 seconds to play in the NCAA tournament, Trevor Releford’s legacy and Alabama’s season hung in the balance. All the elements were there.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Just a mention of the topic raised Doug McDermott’s brow.
Sure, Creighton scores 80 points a game. But they’ve never seen a 94-foot defense like Alabama’s. The first-team All-American couldn’t remember facing a single full-court trap outside of end-game situations.
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When you have the 240th-ranked scoring offense in the country, progress isn’t easily identified.
Points haven’t come in bunches for Alabama this season, but its defense filled the gaps and powered the Crimson Tide into its first NCAA tournament in six years. Keeping pace with one of the nation’s best offenses in Friday’s second-round game creates a new challenge for coach Anthony Grant’s group.
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TUSCALOOSA — An almost-familiar sight appeared when the Coleman Coliseum interview room door swung open Tuesday afternoon.
No, that’s not Anthony Grant. Close, though. The Alabama basketball coach sent in his teen-aged son A.J. — a dead-ringer for his father — to lighten the mood in the days leading up to Alabama’s NCAA tournament opener with Creighton.
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Smiles faded fast in Omaha on Sunday evening.
A reported crowd of 1,700 first cheered when Creighton’s name was called in the NCAA tournament selection show. Then it realized the Missouri Valley Conference champions with a 28-5 record somehow slipped to a No. 8 seed in the Midwest Region.
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All Andrew Steele knows about the NCAA Tournament is what’s seen on TV and stories from his older brother.
It looked fun and sounded better. Now he’ll experience it for himself.
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NEW ORLEANS — The lone speckle of crimson in a sea of blue, a group of Alabama basketball players posed for a few Bourbon Street pictures Friday evening.
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NEW ORLEANS — Start at the low block, find the screen, shoot for the tie.
Trevor Lacey’s final play of Alabama’s SEC tournament stuck to the script as the clock ticked toward elimination.
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NEW ORLEANS — Staring down a wall of empty, checkered seats, Trevor Lacey took the pass as the shot clock wound down. Just a minute remained and Alabama was close to trouble.
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The pro day approach for departing Alabama senior DeQuan Menzie stuck to the point.
The amateur years ended January in New Orleans. That next phase brings extra incentive.
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TUSCALOOSA — Suspensions, injuries and a few early departures will limit or leave a few Alabama football players sidelined when spring football practice opens Friday.
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