I watched a particularly disturbing video on the Internet last week and now I can’t sleep a wink. Apparently, there’s a group of folks out there who think it’s cool to film their own death. I’m not

Unless your head has been buried in sand for the past couple of weeks, you know all about the ugly scene that unfolded recently at a high school basketball game in Montgomery. Carver-Montgomery and

“Ohhh, wait. You’re The Roundtable guys!” Lance Taylor and Ian Fitzsimmons nod in affirmation, taking timeout from their cocktails at a local Homewood watering hole to acknowledge a loyal listener.

Back at Shangri-la, a.k.a. the University of Alabama campus, we might have been so inclined as to share a joke at Mark Gottfried’s expense from time to time: How do you know Gottfried’s clueless ab

This week's "Upon Further Review" was an exclusive sit-down with former Auburn and new North Alabama head football coach Terry Bowden. We hope you enjoyed it. At the end of the story we promised an ex

You’ve heard the old adage about “winning the press conference” when a college football team hires a new coach? Well, North Alabama is 1-0 in 2009. Terry Bowden, the scion of coaching legend Bobby

In my sophomore year at Briarwood Christian High School, I came to know “Linebacker Jesus.” That’s the moniker that Coach Richey, my 10th grade Bible teacher, attached to a rugged portrait of the C

In Dickensian terms, as we prod on through this tale of two NFL seasons, this week is the worst of times. In part two of our year-end NFL blowout, we present the worst 2008 had to offer. The worst

Why do you waste your time watching the NFL? Every week some random dolt, troubled by the thought of college and pro football living together in sin here in this part of the country, asks me this q

With apologies to C.C. Sabathia, economic times around the spectrum of professional sports in the United States have never been direr. In mid-December, the National Football League announced that 1