Goodnight, sweet Lizzie
Fifteen years ago, she strayed into our lives and curled up in our hearts. We found her in a ditch by the mailbox, looking a little like...
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Kevin Scarbinsky
- 5 days ago
Play ball! A few thoughts on Father's Day
One of the greatest joys in my life is watching my sons Kaiser and Kanon play sports. Win or lose. Good day or otherwise. I don't tell...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Jun 4
Say K and say no more
He's a proud man of Polish descent with an uncommon last name that makes strangers nervous to pronounce and terrified to spell. His...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Apr 7
Baylor's title and what might've been for Alabama and Auburn
They could've been rivals, elite point guards battling for supremacy on opposite sides of the Iron Bowl of Basketball, going head-to-head...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Mar 16
This Alabama team just might be the one
This is it. Right here. Right now. This is the one that can finish No. 1. This is the Alabama men's basketball team perfectly positioned...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Feb 28
These Alabama champions aren't done yet
Memo to all the analysts and experts proclaiming Arkansas the best or hottest or most likely to do damage in March men's basketball team...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Feb 16
Meet the new Gus ... same as the old Gus?
No one but the most loyal travelers on the Gus Bus needed additional confirmation that it was past time for Arthur Gustav Malzahn and...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Feb 13
Basketball dad's grateful these seniors got their last dance
Everything ends badly. Otherwise it wouldn't end. Not sure who said that, but I've been feeling it for days. When our Corner High School...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Jan 31
My 2020 coda: I got COVID for Christmas
It started with a scratchy throat two days before Christmas and ended with an ambulance ride to the UAB Hospital emergency room on the...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Dec 19, 2020
UAB legit? You better UABelieve it
Leave it to Spencer Brown to carry the ball one final time. After pounding the rock 30 times for 149 yards in a clock-draining,...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Dec 16, 2020
On the legendary Ray Perkins and an unlikely friendship
Not many people knew Ray Perkins better, or shared a mutual respect with him longer, than Charles Hollis. This is astounding when you...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Dec 13, 2020
Auburn finally gets that Gus had to go
Auburn was right. Late but right. After eight years of spectacular but temporary firework displays tempered by longer stretches of...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Nov 26, 2020
BuckyBall blasts off at Samford
One day we'll say we were there, those of us in greater Birmingham who love basketball, who ventured out to the Pete Hanna Center on...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Oct 28, 2020
Saluting UAB football's epic home run
You lose, you bitch. That's the way it works most places, more so here when it comes to football. The more you win, the more you bitch...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Oct 15, 2020
Birmingham's hoops legacy is back, baby!
First, Auburn shattered the state's inexplicable Final Four barrier. Now, Birmingham is reviving the city's rich NCAA Basketball...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Oct 10, 2020
When that kid scored, this coach melted
The little boy was just that. Little. Even for a 9-year-old. He was kinda short and a bit on the thin side, couldn't run all that fast or...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Oct 1, 2020
No one vexes Gus like Kirby Smart
Of all the unsolved mysteries of the Auburn football universe, there is none more mysterious than this: Gus Malzahn has more trouble with...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Sep 25, 2020
The reward for patience: SEC football
You can ascribe any number of virtues to Southeastern Conference football. (Vices sold separately.) Excellence and abundance spring to...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Jun 2, 2020
I called him Pat: Rest in peace to the man who made Auburn ... Auburn
It's been hard enough to imagine the next football season these past few months. Now we have to imagine it without Pat Dye. As if there...
Kevin Scarbinsky
- Apr 27, 2020
That time Michael Jordan came to town
New rule. Call it a Jordan rule in honor of "The Last Dance." If you ever breathed the same air as Michael Jordan, no matter how...
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