This is the second in a series of reports examining the feasibility of a domed multi-purpose facility for downtown Birmingham.
Last week, the Birmingham City Council granted Mayor Larry Langford’s
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Domes 101: Just the facts on domed stadiums
With the prospect of a multi-purpose domed facility in Birmingham now more certain than ever before, it behooves all of us to learn as much as we can about these behemoth structures.
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Dome if we do - Chatting with dome-backer Jack Fields
To dome or not to dome? That is the question Birmingham has grappled with for better than a decade now.
This is the first in a series of reports examining the feasibility of a domed multi-purpose facility for downtown Birmingham.
To dome or not to dome? That is the question Birmingham has grappled wi
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RIP, Steve McNair: Remembering the former Titans quarterback
By now – regardless of how much or how little obsessed you are with football, you should be familiar with the tragic and bizarre shooting death of McNair and his 20-year-old girlfriend Sahel Kazemi at McNair’s condominium in Nashville.
I don’t have to remind you, Birmingham sports fan, that despite calling itself the “Football Capital of the South”, our town has no pro football team to call it’s own.
Instead, we have two options.
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Some thoughts on zeroes & heroes
My mom called me last Thursday and told me that Michael Jackson was dead. My initial reaction?
“Meh.”
I was born in 1984, the same year that "Thriller" was released as a single. The first time I
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Happy Anniversary to me...and Gene Chizik
June marks six months since Gene Chizik was hired as Auburn’s new head football coach, a move critically panned by yours truly in this column, which is also six-months old.
A couple of weeks ago, while I was bogged down researching that Ears Whitworth cover story, I let the six-month anniversary of my column slip by unnoticed.
Now I’m not high on sentiment, nor am I un
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Monday morning bull session: Matt and Kyle discuss the NCAA
Ever wonder what it's like working with Matt Hooper and Kyle Whitmire? We talk in circles a lot and drive all of our co-workers crazy. Take this week for example, when we riffed on the NCAA...
“So, 201 athletes, huh? And only seven of them we’re football players.”
I look up to see my Weekly cohort and award-winning “War on Dumb” columnist Kyle Whitmire saunter into my office and plop down
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NCAA puts Alabama football back on probation, vacates wins
The NCAA has placed the University of Alabama football team on three years probation and forced the program to vacate wins from three of the past four seasons as punishment for a textbook disbursement scandal involving Tide players.
FULL NCAA REPORT (PDF)
The NCAA has levied a three-year probation against the University of Alabama athletic department and forced the school’s football team to vacate 21 past victories as punishme
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With a 4-24-2 record in three years as the head football coach at the University of Alabama, it's no wonder that J.B.
He pondered the same questions he had heard hundreds, if not thousands, of times over the past few months. They tortured him, agonized him — in part because he had grown tired of searching for the ans
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Midnight Writers: Alabama baseball and a long night's journey into day
If they played a baseball game at 2 a.m., would anyone cover it? Yes, yes they would. In fact, the Weekly did.
A tick after midnight last Thursday, DeAngelo Mack led off for the South Carolina Gamecocks to begin the seventh inning at Regions Park.
Jesse Chambers and I were each two cups deep into a pot of Max
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Live-blog recap: SEC Championship - LSU vs. Vanderbilt
The Weekly's three-day SEC Tourney binge ended Sunday afternoon with the championship game at Regions Park. Relive all the action from LSU/Vanderbilt right here!
LSU vs. Vandy - SEC Tournament Live
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