#south-alabama

#south-alabama

Alabama has a +265 scoring differential, topping opponents by 8.5 points per game. It is putting up 92.1 points per game to rank first in college basketball and is giving up 83.6 per contest to rank 356th in college basketball. The 92.1 points the Crimson Tide average are 16.6 more than the Rebels concede.

I'm concerned that all of the advances that we made for the last 61 years are going to be eradicated. Charles Mauldin, 78, one of the marchers who was beaten that day, expressed this concern about potential Supreme Court limitations on the Voting Rights Act.

Outside, the Alabama Booksmith is so unassuming it's as if Reiss had forgotten that he was running a retail business: a two-story, nearly windowless structure, surrounded by office parks and parking lots, on a dead-end street in a suburb of Birmingham. Inside, the vibe is half 1970, half 1870, with wood panelling, rattan chairs, and a drop-tile ceiling-but also patterned tablecloths, cozy curtains, a functioning fireplace, and an oversized hourglass.

On March 2, 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks' more famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a Black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger.

In any liberal morality play, Democrats always get to be the shivering, oppressed black people, while Republicans have to play the part of Bull Connor, Birmingham, AL's racist commissioner of public safety. Except the facts are exactly the opposite. I'm sure you're bored of hearing this, but Connor was a Democrat, as were all the politicians promising "massive resistance" to racial integration. Republicans were the ones forcing Democrats to abide by federal law, along with a few John Fetterman- style Democrats.

Despite being selected 31st overall in the NBA Draft, Nnaji was recently reinstated and will have four seasons of NCAA eligibility. This, despite Nnaji playing professionally for at least three seasons in Europe, including two for powerhouse FC Barcelona. The NCAA's rules also create an entirely arbitrary distinction between student athletes who go directly from high school to professional competition and those who initially enroll in college, later leave for the draft, and then seek to return.

On March 16, 1965, a thirty-nine-year-old woman named Viola Liuzzo got into a late-model Oldsmobile and drove eight hundred miles from her home in Detroit, Michigan, to Selma, Alabama. Days earlier, following the Bloody Sunday protests, where voting-rights demonstrators had been tear-gassed and beaten, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had issued an appeal to people of conscience across the country to come to Alabama and participate in what had already become one of the most consequential theatres in the movement for equality.

SWAC action features the Alabama State Hornets (6-15, 3-5 SWAC) at home against the Florida A&M Rattlers (8-11, 5-3 SWAC) on Monday, February 2, 2026 at 7 p.m. ET. Alabama State lost its previous game to Bethune-Cookman, 69-54, on Saturday. Micah Simpsom starred with 16 points, plus two rebounds and two assists. Florida A&M lost its previous game to Alabama A&M, 72-65, on Saturday. Tyler Shirley was its high scorer with 16 points. You can catch this game live on SWAC TV.

ASUN play features the North Alabama Lions (14-12) at home against the Lipscomb Bisons (9-17) on Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 7 p.m. ET. North Alabama won its most recent game versus Bellarmine, 87-54, on Wednesday. Sofia Ceppellotti was its high scorer with 21 points. Lipscomb lost its most recent game to West Georgia, 66-65, on Wednesday. Molly Heard led the way with 16 points, and also had four boards and one assist.

The Alcorn State Braves (12-10) will host the Florida A&M Rattlers (7-15) after winning five home games in a row. In its previous game, Alcorn State fell to UAPB on Saturday, 64-60. Kiarra Henderson scored a team-high 20 points (and added five assists and eight rebounds). Florida A&M was victorious in its previous game against Texas Southern, 86-73, on Saturday. Tahnyjia Purifoy was its top scorer with 19 points.