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Kevin Scarbinsky
The men in blue make Alabama see red and push the Tide to the edge
Jason Jackson wouldn't go there. He refused to say what he could've, would've and maybe should've said Saturday afternoon about the...
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Kevin Scarbinsky
Jun 1, 2023
Nick Saban sounds like a man with Georgia on his mind
Nick Saban has asked the question for years. Each time, his tone made no bones about his disgust with the game-changing subject at hand,...
Kevin Scarbinsky
May 28, 2023
Time for the baseball gods to smile on a Tide team prospering despite the odds
Don't bet against them. It's a cheap joke and sound advice, a laugh line and a sober reminder of a season unlike any other. It's the...
Kevin Scarbinsky
May 28, 2023
Their son's tragic death became Mark and Kym Hilinski's life's work
Note: This column was published originally in the Lede on May 26, 2023. Today is Tyler Hilinski's birthday. He would've been 27 years...
Kevin Scarbinsky
May 28, 2023
Top to bottom, SEC football can't compete with SEC baseball
Listen up, people. College football kicks off in full in 104 days, and I have some bad news for you. Your team is not going to win the...
Kevin Scarbinsky
May 28, 2023
Alabama softball got the gold mine, Auburn got the shaft
It's not every day you get to play hardball with college softball, but this is the time of year when that sport shines, casuals swell the...
Kevin Scarbinsky
May 14, 2023
Tommy's from the government, and he's here to help college sports. Yikes
This may be hard to believe, but Tommy Tuberville found time this week to offer some alarming comments on subjects other than white...
Kevin Scarbinsky
May 7, 2023
Right place, right time for Greg Byrne to tell Alabama's true story
Not sure exactly when it happened, but it was somewhere between the capital murder charge against a now-former basketball player, the...
Kevin Scarbinsky
May 6, 2023
GOAT Slaying 101: Smart is to Saban as Dye was to Bryant
If you're of a certain age and you took the SAT back in the day, you remember the analogy questions all too well. They went like this:...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Apr 30, 2023
Cam Newton and Bryce Young would make a great team in Carolina
The Carolina Panthers made the smartest decision of the NFL Draft when they traded up to get the first overall pick and used it to select...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Apr 30, 2023
Too soon to tell if Auburn got lucky when it didn't hire Coach Prime
I've heard it. You've heard it. You may have said it yourself in the last week as Colorado became the talk of college football, turning...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Apr 23, 2023
I can see clearly now this Alabama team should not win it all
Let's be clear, crystal football clear about the state of the Alabama Crimson Tide today because clarity was in short supply Saturday...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Apr 23, 2023
Life lessons: The rise of Jalen Hurts and Tua learning to fall
Of course they both made big news in the same week, though in very different ways that no one could have or would have predicted when...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Apr 16, 2023
College football's still not the NFL, and Mack Brown should be glad
It's easy to like Mack Brown. Having known his older brother Watson during his UAB coaching days, I expected that to be the case when I...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Apr 16, 2023
Just one point about all those points USC is sure to score
Fight on, USC, and hang the banner. Roll over, college football, because the 2023 season is already done. It ended earlier than any...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Apr 9, 2023
Antoine Pettway leaves Alabama as nothin' but a winner
Mark Gottfried did a lot of good things as a player and head coach at his alma mater, the University of Alabama. He won an SEC...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Apr 6, 2023
Bill Clark's doing a different kind of coaching this spring
It's spring, and for the first time in his adult life as winter's chill thaws and summer's swelter looms, Bill Clark does not have a...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Apr 6, 2023
Yes, please, Hugh Freeze, play UAB and Troy but do it in the fall
First things first. Look on the bright side, and give Hugh Freeze a sliver of credit. Auburn's new football coach provided a pleasant...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Apr 6, 2023
My Final Four dream: One day that last net will belong to us
It was a busy Saturday morning at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, especially at the United Airlines gate, where a crowd...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Apr 4, 2023
No NIT banner, but UAB hoops is in a very good place
Give plenty of credit to North Texas, and save plenty more for UAB. That's how you compete in a championship game. That's how you walk...
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