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Tide needs to ‘keep fire burning’

Ashley Sledge

On the surface, it would appear that Alabama’s gymnastics meet with Kentucky this weekend would fall into the “trap game” category. The Crimson Tide put together its best team score since 2004 last weekend and will host No. 3 Arkansas in the annual “Power of Pink” meet next week. So, how does Alabama avoid a [...]

Tide heads to College Station for invite

First-year track and field head coach Dan Waters has put together one of the best recruiting classes in the entire nation. Waters signed 29 athletes, many of which are the top recruits in the nation in their events. “We certainly filled a lot of needs, we felt like we touched on every area of the [...]

Softball prepares for Mobile tournament

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The University of Alabama softball team’s expectations are high this season, as the team went 53-11 last year, including its third consecutive trip to the final four of the Women’s College World Series. “If nothing else came out of last year, it gave everyone experience,” senior Jazlyn Lunceford said. “I think that does a lot [...]

Tide prepares for Ole Miss rematch

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The women’s basketball team gears up to face Ole Miss in Oxford tonight at 7 p.m. in Tad Smith Coliseum. This will be the second time the teams have played each other this season. “We have gone through practice to play against what we know we will see,” head coach Wendell Hudson said. “Sometimes, that’s [...]

‘Finishing’ a good theme for football, but every sport?

I had a talk with chief copy editor John Davis on Monday about how, at Alabama, football is so entrenched in everyone’s mind that there is little room for other sports to develop their own identity. A good example of this is the term “finishing,” which has become so commonly thrown around with every sport [...]

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