Archive for: January, 2010

Tide poised for successful season after opening weekend

After winning a second consecutive SEC Championship in cross country this fall, senior Emmanuel Bor and the Alabama distance runners will be heavily relied on in the spring track and field season.

The Alabama track and field team started off its season at the Kentucky Invitational in Lexington, Ky., last weekend, earning two NCAA provisional qualifying marks. The Tide’s performance was sparked by senior Ray Jadusingh, who ran the seventh-best 60 meter time in school history. “Our senior sprinter, Ray Jadusingh, did a really good job running [...]

Charity Center auctions off signed football

Each year, the Heisman Memorial Trophy Awards Dinner is held to formally award the Heisman Memorial Trophy to the winner. As part of the celebration, the new winner, as well as a number of past winners, is asked to sign footballs. Those footballs are then given to each of the signees. With Mark Ingram winning [...]

Tide loses leading scorer for season

Alabama junior guard Varisia Raffington will miss the duration of the 2009-10 season due to a torn medial collateral ligament (MCL) and partially torn posterior cruciate ligament (PCL), head coach Wendell Hudson announced on Wednesday. She incurred the injury Sunday at Kentucky with 11:07 left to play in the second half. The injury will not [...]

Tide expecting huge improvement

The Crimson Tide women’s track and field returned to Tuscaloosa last weekend with 14 new personal bests and two NCAA provisional marks after competing in the 2010 Kentucky Invitational season opener. Sophomore Krystle Schade and Senior Kim Laing were immediate standouts, both earning NCAA provisional marks. Schade won the NCAA provisional mark, placing third in [...]

The sun sets on MTV’s Jersey Shore tonight

The first season of MTV’s fist-pumping, open-shirt-wearing, radically crazy phenomenon is coming to an end tonight in the series finale of the popular show, “Jersey Shore.” MTV has taken viewers to meet eight young adults living in a summerhouse on one of the most popular spots on the New Jersey shore. Angelina, Jenni “J-Woww,” Mike [...]

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