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No longer in top 10, Alabama hosts Ole Miss in an SEC West showdown between two ranked foes

Sep. 21, 2023 06:11 AM EDT

Lane Kiffin was offensive coordinator the last time Alabama lost in September. The Crimson Tide fell to Mississippi in the third game of 2015 and didn’t lose again en route to a national championship. Now, Kiffin is on the other side taking the 15th-ranked Rebels to Tuscaloosa to...

No. 15 Ole Miss visits No. 13 Alabama in Week 4 headliner in the Southeastern Conference

Sep. 21, 2023 05:11 AM EDT

Things to watch in Week 4 of the Southeastern Conference: GAME OF THE WEEK No. 15 Mississippi (3-0) at No. 13 Alabama (2-1) in the SEC opener for both teams. Any matchup of potential SEC West contenders is big, but this game is magnified by the Crimson...

Alabama school band director says he was 'just doing my job' before police arrested him

Sep. 20, 2023 14:58 PM EDT

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama high school band director said Wednesday that he was just “doing my job” when police officers arrested him and shocked him with a stun gun after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a football game. ...

Number of unbeatens in the SEC already is down to five with league play beginning

Sep. 20, 2023 14:52 PM EDT

Georgia found itself in a rare situation against South Carolina last weekend, when the unranked and largely unheralded Gamecocks jumped out to a 14-3 lead against the two-time defending national champions. Sure, the Bulldogs rallied with three unanswered touchdowns in the second half...

Video shows high school band director shocked with stun gun, arrested after refusing to stop music

Sep. 20, 2023 07:54 AM EDT

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Police body camera video shows an Alabama high school band director being shocked with a stun gun and arrested by officers in front of screaming students, in a chaotic scuffle that broke out after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers...

Editorial Roundup: Mississippi

Sep. 20, 2023 07:26 AM EDT

Columbus Dispatch. September 14, 2023. Editorial: Scholarship program is one answer in recruiting, retaining rural doctors During Tuesday’s Columbus Rotary Club meeting, Wahnee Sherman, executive director of the Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarshi p program,...

Editorial Roundup: Alabama

Sep. 20, 2023 07:14 AM EDT

Cullman Times. September 19, 2023. Editorial: Atrocity usually begins with dehumanization With the 60th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church terrorist bombing, it’s a good time to remember that atrocities spring almost universally from a common source — a...

How a rural Alabama school system outdid the country with gains in math

Sep. 20, 2023 01:11 AM EDT

PIEDMONT, Ala. (AP) — While the rest of the country’s schools were losing ground in math during the COVID pandemic, student performance in a rural Alabama school district was soaring. Piedmont City schools notched significant improvement in math, landing in the top spot among...

Opponents in an Alabama lawsuit over Confederate monument protests reach a tentative settlement

Sep. 18, 2023 20:23 PM EDT

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — The city of Florence has reached a tentative agreement to settle a free speech lawsuit brought by an organization that staged dozens of protests against a Confederate monument in the north Alabama city, according to a Monday court filing. The lawsuit, filed...

Saban denies suggestion from Ole Miss' Kiffin that Alabama has new defensive play-caller

Sep. 18, 2023 17:30 PM EDT

Alabama coach Nick Saban says defensive coordinator Kevin Steele is still calling the plays. Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin isn't so sure. Kiffin stirred some controversy ahead of 15th-ranked Ole Miss' visit Saturday to the 13th-ranked Crimson Tide, suggesting that cornerbacks coach...