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Category: University of Alabama
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Alabama Basketball Manager Says He, Not Player, Was at Deadly Shooting
A freshman player sued The Times after it placed him at a crime scene. The newspaper will correct its coverage.
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Alabama Fires Baseball Coach After Reports of Suspicious Betting on Team’s Game
The university said the coach, Brad Bohannon, was fired for cause but did not provide details.
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Alabama’s Tumultuous Season Ends With Loss to San Diego State
Alabama’s season, which included questions about its handling of a deadly shooting, ended well short of its ambitions of an N.C.A.A. men’s basketball title.
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Houston and Alabama Size Each Other Up From the Same Arena
The Cougars and Crimson Tide, the remaining No. 1s in the N.C.A.A. men’s tournament, both played this weekend in Birmingham, Ala. They will headline a wide-open round of 16.
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Saturday’s Matchups to Watch in the NCAA Tournament
Can Princeton and Furman keep the upsets coming in the men’s tournament? And will we see any double-digit seeds win on the women’s side?
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A Fourth Alabama Player Was at a Deadly Shooting, in a Car Hit by Bullets
The presence of a fourth Crimson Tide player at the deadly shooting in January has come to light as the team begins its run as the top overall seed in the N.C.A.A. men’s tournament.
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Seedings for N.C.A.A. Men’s Tournament Show Wide-Open Field
Alabama, Houston, Kansas and Purdue earned No. 1 seeds in a tournament where top teams seem more beatable than usual, and others that usually might be considered upstarts have viable paths to the championship.
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Alabama’s Championship Push Arrives With Murder Indictment
A former Crimson Tide player, Darius Miles, and Miles’s friend Michael Davis were indicted by a grand jury. At the Southeastern Conference tournament, Brandon Miller starred for Alabama after being interviewed as a witness in the case.
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Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts Represent Progress and Lost Opportunity for Black Quarterbacks
Black quarterbacks will lead both teams in Sunday’s Super Bowl. But for much of pro football history, Black players were steered away from the position because of racist assumptions.
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‘Born for the Storm’: How Jalen Hurts Learned to Be Unflappable
His father coached Jalen Hurts to lead, but two games at Alabama — a bruising benching and a comeback — gave him the fight that has been key to his M.V.P. candidacy with the Philadelphia Eagles.