Happy Monday, everyone. You may have heard that Super Bowl LX happened yesterday, marking the official start of the football offseason. The Seattle Seahawks are NFL champions for the 2025 season thanks in large part to the best defense in the league, and they got contributions from a couple of former Alabama standouts. Jarran Reed is still causing havoc up front, and CB Josh Jobe had himself quite a night with seven tackles and one pass break-up. Jobe also got into a late kerfluffle with Patriots
WR Stefon Diggs. Robbie Ouzts was the only Seahawk to miss the game due to injury, and Jalen Milroe watched from the sideline. If you don’t count Jalen Hurts, Milroe is the first former Alabama QB to be on a Super Bowl winning roster since the 1970s.
But we count Jalen Hurts.
The Gym Tide showed well in Norman, but the Sooners are just too much to handle.
The No. 4 Alabama gymnastics team (3-2, 1-2 SEC) dropped a close battle with the top-ranked Oklahoma Sooners (6-0-1, 4-0 SEC), 198.200-197.475, Friday night in Lloyd Noble Center. The Crimson Tide’s floor exercise rotation highlighted the night, as the squad recorded a 49.525 rotation score – its second highest of the season.
Freshman standout Azaraya Ra-Akbar shined for the Tide, registering career-high marks on vault (9.950) and floor (9.950) en route to a share of the vault event title. Teammate Chloe LaCoursiere’s fifth consecutive score of at least a 9.925 on the uneven bars earned her a share of the event title (9.925) as the junior All-American made her season debut in the all-around (39.425, career high).
At this stage Oklahoma appears to be the clear favorite to bring home their fourth national title in five seasons.
Kristy Curry’s squad suffered an inexcusable loss in College Station.
The No. 21 Alabama women’s basketball team fell to Texas A&M, 72-69, on Sunday in a back-and-forth affair at Reed Arena.
Three finished in double figures to lead Alabama (20-5, 6-5 SEC), including Jessica Timmons with a team-highs of 19 points and eight rebounds. Ta’Mia Scott finished with 18 points, shooting 7-of-12 (58 percent) from the field and 4-of-6 (66 percent) from behind the arc to go along with four rebounds and two blocks. Essence Cody added 13 points and seven boards in the win
Texas A&M (9-10, 2-8 SEC) was led by Ny’Ceara Pryor with 20 points, while Fatmate Janneh grabbed a team-high 15 rebounds.
The Aggies are 84th in the NET. Perhaps Alabama was caught looking ahead, as this game should have served as a breather before a murderous five-game stretch to close the season that features four games against teams currently ranked in the top 11. Next up is 11th-ranked Oklahoma.
Without much else going on, Nick Kelly wrote about the Alabama QBs.
Before we discuss more about the competition, it’s somewhat remarkable Alabama even has a competition in this day and age. Many quarterbacks want starter promises in the current era, with no shortage of teams trying to pluck them away via the transfer portal with lucrative offers.
So, Alabama deserves credit for managing to hold onto both Mack and Russell without guaranteeing either the starting job. How do we know neither was guaranteed the starting job behind the scenes? Because the other would have left to have a shot to start somewhere else.
“It’s huge,” Kalen DeBoer said while in Mobile for Senior Bowl practices. “Two guys who know our system at quarterback. Just the way, with an offensive line that’s got some leaders who are gone, two quarterbacks who can carry over from last year what we did and keep it moving forward.”
Last, we will be awaiting some news for Alabama basketball. Judge Daniel Pruet will likely rule today on the Charles Bediako injunction, which will determine whether Angry Chuck continues to play. We also hope to have some kind of news on Latrell Wrightsell Jr. who left the Auburn game with a knee injury.
Hope for the best on both.
That’s about it for now. Have a great day.
Roll Tide.
