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LIVE BLOG - UAB vs. Rice

Live coverage of today's UAB/Rice game at Legion Field.

By Matt Hooper

UAB vs. Rice - Conference USA Football Live

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College Football Game Day, Week One

The Weekly's comprehensive coverage of college football in the state of Alabama, week one.

By Matt Hooper

UAB 44 - Rice 24 RECAP WEEKLY LIVE BLOG Coverage: UAB Official Site Rice Official Site Birmingham Weekly: UAB season preview UAB Football Game Notes Rice Football Game Notes Weekly P

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UAB routs Rice, 44-24, in season opener

By Matt Hooper

FINAL STATS BIRMINGHAM, Ala - UAB QB Joe Webb rushed for nearly 200 yards and passed for 221 more while leading the Blazers to a 44-24 rout over Rice in the season opener for both teams at Legion F

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UAB's 2009 record will be...

By Matt Hooper

It’s no secret that UAB’s football program hasn’t been very good of late. The team, which has only been competing in Division I-A football since 1999, hasn’t pulled together a winning season since 200

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College football? We're live-blogging it!

By Matt Hooper

As most of you know, this Saturday marks the first full day of college football action across the state and throughout the country. And wouldn't you know it, Birmingham Weekly will be your one-stop sh

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Alabama's 2009 record will be...

The expectations for Nick Saban's Tide are sky high for the 2009 season...but with so many new faces on both sides of the ball making their debut in 2009, are fans expecting too much?

By Matt Hooper

NOTE: This story is an update from our Alabama Spring Football Preview. The original predictions from April can be viewed by clicking here! Recent history suggests that football coaches at the Univer

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Auburn's 2009 record will be...

With the start of the 2009 college football season just days away, fans are beginning to wonder what they can expect from first-year Auburn coach Gene Chizik. Well...

By Matt Hooper

NOTE: This column is an update of the Weekly's 2009 Auburn Spring Football Preview. The original predictions can be seen here. What I’m about to do is so, so very stupid. Really, it’s borderline in

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Football's [almost] back

By Matt Hooper

It occurred to me as I was watching the Hall of Fame Game last Sunday night — the official start to the NFL’s preseason — that four weeks of writing about the domed stadium was an awful long time.

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On the record as a naysayer: The dome? Not a good idea.

These past few weeks have given me an opportunity to do what do few of our city’s decision-makers will: fairly and openly listen to both sides of the dome debate, spend hours independently researching other cities with similar facilities and finally, come

By Matt Hooper

“You can and you can't, you shall and you shan't; you will and you won't. And you will be damned if you do, and you will be damned if you don't.” So what if 19th century evangelist Lorenzo Dow was

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"Enormous white elephant": Valerie Abbott makes the case against a dome

Valerie Abbott, the most vocal opponent to Birmingham’s planned multi-purpose domed facility, discusses her opposition to the project with Birmingham Weekly.

By Matt Hooper

(Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of reports examining the feasibility of a domed multi-purpose facility for downtown Birmingham.) This week, I sat down with perhaps the most vocal oppo