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Kevin Scarbinsky
NCAA > NIT, but never scoff at a title shot like UAB's got
Let's get right to the question of the day, a fun conversation starter during March Madness. Is it better to lose in the first round of...
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Kevin Scarbinsky
Mar 26, 2023
Good news in the bad end to Alabama's great season
Alabama basketball finds itself in a strange place today, a place riddled with questions after finding no answers in another Bittersweet...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Mar 26, 2023
This Alabama team wasn't supposed to go out like this
Worst things first. Let's not bury the lede or resurrect a tragedy beyond saying what has to be said. What happened to the Alabama...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Mar 24, 2023
Birmingham is NOW the Basketball Capital of the South
Welcome to Birmingham, Basketball Capital of the South. That is not a typo. That is a Type-A declaration of independence from a lifetime...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Mar 19, 2023
Final score: Birmingham and Alabama were Final Four good
Dear Basketball. Dear Alabama and Auburn Basketball. Dear City of Birmingham and State of Alabama Basketball. Thank you. All of you. You...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Mar 19, 2023
They're not playing, but the Tide and Tigers are always competing
Kelvin Sampson got it. The Houston coach rolled off four Roll Tides in 16 seconds, searching for the proper inflection. His best...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Mar 18, 2023
We looked like a basketball state because that's what we are
Auburn basketball took me to Alaska and Long Beach. Alabama basketball got me to Seattle and San Francisco. UAB basketball tried to send...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Mar 18, 2023
For Brandon Miller and Bama, March Madness is more than a game
Sadly, this story has little to do with basketball. This story has more to do with the best basketball player on Birmingham's biggest...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Mar 18, 2023
How the ball bounces: Alabama up, Auburn down but not out
Alabama is playing basketball today. Auburn is not. Both teams will hear their names called during the NCAA Tournament Selection Show...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Mar 9, 2023
Expecting UAB to leave C-USA with a trophy with Jelly on top
There they go again, that elite UAB video team, setting a tone, raising the bar, raising the hair on the back of your neck and raising...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Mar 5, 2023
Wooden Award joins the rabid rush to judge Brandon Miller
There are things we know. These things are called facts. Some of you are interested in them and understand their value. There are other...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Mar 5, 2023
Auburn makes Alabama work overtime to earn that title
This is a basketball column, nothing more, nothing less, because this game, more than any other game this season, deserves it. Alabama...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Feb 26, 2023
Nate Oats and Alabama can't afford this kind of thoughtless misstep
First things first. Let's not hyperventilate. There's been enough malicious mouth-breathing in the last week on the subject of Alabama...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Feb 26, 2023
Where does Brandon Miller go to get his reputation back?
Jamea Jonae Harris is gone. It seems important to mention that today. In the early morning hours of January 15th, a 23-year-old woman...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Feb 26, 2023
Still Dabo after all these years
It was 20 years ago today. OK, maybe not today exactly, but one day in February of 2003, Dabo Swinney's phone rang, and his life changed....
Kevin Scarbinsky
Feb 26, 2023
Deciding new SEC football schedules: So easy a columnist can do it
Don't overthink this thing, Greg Byrne. It's not rocket science or brain surgery, John Cohen. As you and your fellow SEC athletics...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Feb 12, 2023
Alabama's superior talent and depth finally quiets Auburn's Jungle
Turns out the first Iron Bowl of Basketball 2023 did not live up to its January hype as one of the bigger regular-season games in state...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Feb 12, 2023
Kevin Steele's a trusted friend, Tommy Rees a kindred spirit for Nick Saban
This is what winning looks like, Exhibit A. Script A, if you please. Both coordinator jobs come open after a letdown of a football...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Feb 12, 2023
Does Auburn take basketball more seriously than Alabama?
Add this true fact to the overwhelming body of evidence that the state of Alabama is not just for football anymore, if it ever was. For...
Kevin Scarbinsky
Feb 12, 2023
Most likely to break up the Alabama-Georgia axis: Texas
Signing Day Part Deux has come and gone, and as usual, the sequel delivered none of the drama of the original. Perhaps the people who run...
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