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Friday was a disappointment for Tide fans. The University of Alabama simply could not stop Florida from running up and down the court scoring the basketball in their quarterfinal game of the Southeastern Conference Tournament in men's basketball. Florida had 102 points to Bama's 88 points despite Alabama jumping out to an early 8 to 0 lead. Mark Sears led Alabama in the loss with 22 points. Aaron Estrada contributed 17 points; Nick Pringle scored 12 points; and Grant Nelson had 11 for the Tide....
The UAB Blazers men's basketball team advanced to the semifinals in the All-American Conference tournament with an impressive 72 to 60 win over Wichita State on Friday. With the win, the University Alabama Birmingham advances to the AAC tournament semifinals. UAB will play South Florida at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday in Fort Worth, Texas. The winner will advance to the AAC championship game. Yaxel Lendeborg led the scoring with aa stellar 18 points and 14 rebounds performance. Lendeborg is 6 foot 9...
On Saturday, the Auburn University men's basketball team defeated Mississippi State 73 to 60 in their Southeastern Conference semifinals game. Auburn now advances to the Conference tournament championship game on Sunday in Nashville against Florida. If the Tigers win the championship game, they will receive an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament; though with a record that was tied for second place in the SEC Auburn is already virtually assured a spot in the field of 68 teams in the...
On Saturday UAB defeated South Alabama to advance to the American Athletic Conference Championship game. UAB led at halftime 38 to 30 and held on to win their AAC semifinal conference tournament game 93 to 83. Guard Efrem Johnson led the scoring for UAB with 21 points and 2 rebounds. Guard Eric Gaines had 20 points and 4 rebounds. Alejandro Vasquez had 16 points and 5 rebounds. Christian Coleman scored 15 points and had 5 rebounds. Star center/forward Yaxel Lendeborg contributed 12 points and...
During the Republican primary one congressional challenger in Alabama used artificial intelligence to create a fake video of Donald J. Trump endorsing him and denigrating his incumbent opponent. The fake was done in jest, was obviously not real, and was not intended to deceive; but there are fears that rapidly improving AI technology could make real election interference a very real possibility and could be very problematic in this election. Congresswomen Terri Sewell (D-AL07) and Shontel Brown...
The U.S. House of Representatives recently unanimously passed Representative Dale W. Strong's (R-Huntsville) bill, H.R. 6174 – the "DHS Biodetection Improvement Act." Strong explained that his legislation will bolster U.S. biodefense by ensuring that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is positioned to combat bioterrorism threats. "I am glad that my colleagues recognized the importance of this legislation and passed it unanimously," said Rep. Strong. "Threats from America's enemies have c...
An estimated 10 million migrants, including 617,000 with known criminal records, have crossed the U.S. southern border since Joseph R. Biden (D) has been in office. That is double the population of the state of Alabama. Congressman Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) voted in favor of H.Res.1065, a resolution sponsored by Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-Texas) denouncing the Biden Administration's immigration policies. Rep. De La Cruz recently highlighted the disaster at our southern border in her Spanish...
The Auburn University men's basketball team won the Southeastern conference tournament for only the third time in the school's history on Sunday. The win secured the Tigers an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament where they will play Yale in the first round. Auburn beat Florida 86 to 67. Auburn is coached by Bruce Peal. "Winning the championship this year means even more because the league was so good," Pearl said. "We've won a few of these. I think this one is the most special. Maybe it's...
On Sunday UAB defeated Temple to win the American Athletic Conference (AAC) Championship game. The 85 to 16 win guaranteed the 23 and 11 Blazers an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Last year, the Blazers lost the championship game and were denied a berth in the NCAA field of 68. Undaunted, that team advanced all the way to the NIT championship game. UAB refused to be at the mercy of the committee this year. This is the second time in the last three years that UAB has played in the NCAA...
There are more schools in Alabama in the NCAA men's basketball tournament than Big East teams. Alabama historically has been known as a football state; but over the last several years the state has been dramatically improving in college basketball. Both Alabama and Auburn have had players drafted in the first round of the NBA draft. Both schools have made deep tournament runs under their current coaches. Auburn under Coach Bruce Pearl has been to the final four – Auburn's best tournament f...
On Friday, Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) spoke with Capitol Journal's Todd Stacy about his work in Congress representing Alabama's Fourth Congressional District. Last week Aderholt voted in support of legislation that would require the social media platform, Tik Tok, to find new ownership within six months or be shut down. A majority stake in Tik Tok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese owned corporation with alleged ties to the Chinese military and Chinese Intelligence. Aderholt voted...
Horse racing is the "the sport of kings" and for decades it was the dominant form of legal gambling. For the first seven decades of the Twentieth Century the three biggest sports in this country were boxing, baseball, and horse racing. The Alabama House of Representatives is poised to vote on a constitutional amendment to allow a massive expansion of legal gambling in the state; but Alabama's horse owners say there is nothing in either version of the bill for horse racing. The Alabama Gazette...
On Monday, former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann went to the social media platform now known as X to say that there is "always hope" that former President Donald J. Trump (R) would be assassinated. Olbermann was responding to a post on X by the Biden-Harris campaign flagging a clip of President Trump saying he had been persecuted worse than any president in history, including Abraham Lincoln. "Trump says he has been treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated," the Biden campaign...
House leadership from both parties, Senate leadership from both parties, and the White House are working on crafting a bipartisan bill to keep the federal government funded through September 30. Congressman Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) joined 41 of his Republican colleagues in a letter to his colleagues asking for an appropriations deal that does not fund Biden's ongoing border crisis. The letter states that the failure to negotiate a deal that includes H.R.2 means that if Republicans support...
On Wednesday, Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Saks) spoke on the challenges that the U.S. faces in the Indo-Pacific Region. "The Indo-Pacific is home to our nation's greatest threats," Rep. Rogers said during a committee hearing. "In North Korea, we have a mad man who would rather build an illegal nuclear arsenal than feed his starving people." Rogers said that North Korean leader Kim last year, "Announced that South Korea is now a "hostile country", and that North Korea can legally "annihilate"...
On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) spoke on the floor of the U.S/. Senate to remember more Americans killed by illegal aliens under the Biden Administration's open borders policies. This is not the first time that Tuberville has delivered a speech on this. In fact, it is the third time that Tuberville has gone to the floor to deliver a speech about more Americans who were tragically taken from us far too soon. "Here we go again. I cannot believe I am on the Senate floor,...
On Wednesday, Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl issued a statement praising the Governor, Secretary of State, and Legislature for passing the ballot ban bill (SB1) and for Governor Kay Ivey (R) for signing SB1 into law. "Securing and maintaining the integrity of the electoral process is of the utmost importance to the Alabama Republican Party," said Chairman John Wahl in a statement. "No one's vote should ever be stolen or usurped by illegal ballot harvesting, and SB1 is a major step...
Alabama has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation; but it also has one of the worst workforce participation rates in the country. On Thursday Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) was joined by legislative leaders as they unveiled a new package of bills to encourage more Alabamians to enter the workforce. "In the last session and we spent a lot of time following the governor's lead on a plan that she named the gameplan, that created some of they, maybe the best, incentives in the nation,"...
The Samford men's basketball team fell to Kansas in the first round of the NCAA tournament 89 to 93. The Jayhawks had a 10-point lead at halftime 48 to 38; but the Bulldogs from Homewood came storming back in the second half outscoring Kansas5 51 to 45 in the second half, but it wasn't quite enough. At one point in the game Samford trailed by 20 points. The Bulldogs launched a furious second half comeback to bring the game within 1 – 89 to 90 with only 20 seconds left in the game. Kansas's N...
Former Deputy Attorney General Shomari Figures and House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels are in a battle to be the Democratic nominee in Alabama Second Congressional District. The newly redrawn CD2 stretches from Mobile to Montgomery and from Phenix City to Troy. The district, which was redrawn by the courts along racial lines, is enormously diverse with both very rural counties and very urban neighborhoods in Montgomery and Mobile. Figures left his position with the U.S. Justice Department in W...
On Friday Congressmen Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise), Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville), Dale Strong (R-Huntsville), and Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) voted against a bipartisan spending bill to keep the government funded. All six of Alabama’s House Republicans voted against the compromise measure. The 1,012-page, $1.2 trillion spending package was crafted on a bipartisan basis between the House leadership, the leadership of the Senate, and the Biden White House. It has passed both Houses and has been s...
Auburn won the SEC championship; but lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament loss to Yale. Yale defeated Auburn 78 to 76 on Friday in Spokane to end the Tigers 2023/2024 season. "We did not take good care of the ball," said Auburn men's basketball head Coach Bruce Pearl. "We turned it over too much. They made big shots." Auburn finished the season with a record of 27 and 8. All-American Johni Broome led the Tigers in the loss with 24 points and 13 rebounds. "Johni had a great year,"...
An estimated 110,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2023. Illegal drugs have long been a prominent part of modern American culture; but drug over doses have climbed exponentially over the last decade – much of it due to fentanyl. In the last five years drug overdoses have risen to be one of the leading causes of death for 18 to 45 years old. It also kills a number of pregnant women. Far too many Americans, use drugs and alcohol to artificially alter or enhance their moods and fentanyl f...
On Saturday the U.S. Senate passed a controversial $1.27 trillion spending bill to keep the government funded through the end of September. U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Alabama) voted for the package which funded the Departments of Defense; Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. It also funded financial services and general government; the legislative branch; and State, foreign operations, and related programs. This legislation passed the House on Friday. It passed the...
Alabama Eagle Forum has stanchly denounced the gambling bill. They did not like the House version and they don't think the Senate version is much better. Now Eagle Forum is claiming that the much-reduced Senate version of the bill will allow Class III gambling at the three facilities in Wetumpka, Montgomery, and Atmore operated by the Poarch Band of Creek. Indians. Alabama Eagle Forum bases this on a brief written by the Southeast Law Institute. "The sub for HB151 will allow unlimited PCI...
