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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
Apr 6, 2021


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
Mar 15, 2021


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 28, 2021


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 15, 2021


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
Feb 12, 2021


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
Jan 31, 2021


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 19, 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 16, 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
Dec 13, 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
Nov 26, 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 28, 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 15, 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 10, 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
Oct 1, 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
Sep 25, 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
Jun 2, 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...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Apr 27, 2020


E.J. Brophy looks for his next professional challenge
If the world hadn't changed and the sports world hadn't stopped thanks to the COVID-19 crisis, E.J. Brophy would've been all about...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Apr 11, 2020


Faith, family and UAB football fuel a timely new book
There is no bad time to read a good book, but there's never been a better time. We are medically threatened, physically distanced and...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Mar 21, 2020


Andy Kennedy right where he should be back at UAB
You can discuss how good the job actually is. You can deliberate on the state of the program, the state of the conference and the state...

Kevin Scarbinsky
Mar 21, 2020
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