Re: [RollTideFan] NCAA's Stupidty continues...
Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm searching for a news story on this. I heard it on my local morning news, but haven't found anything I can forward yet. http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/uga/0805/11gafans.html Dogs fans show heart, but . . . NCAA won't let them pay for dad's trip to game By CHIP TOWERS The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 08/11/05 ATHENS A group of Georgia football fans took up a collection to pay for a Boise State player's father to fly from Baghdad to see his son play against the Bulldogs in Athens. But the NCAA rule book got in the way. Dan Miller, father of Broncos sophomore guard Tad Miller, is a retired police lieutenant who is training Iraqi police officers. When Sam Hendrix of Signal Mountain, Tenn. suthndawg to his fellow Georgia fans on the Dawgvent, an Internet message board read a story in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the Millers, he started an online movement to raise the $2,700 it will cost Dad to make it to Sanford Stadium to see his son play in the home opener Sept. 3. Within moments of suthndawg's post, there were 25 to 50 people who offered to pledge money, said Ryan Crowe, a 25-year-old legal assistant from Atlanta who offered to collect and distribute the funds. It just took off from there. But when Crowe checked with the two schools, he was told the UGA fans' generosity would be a violation of NCAA bylaws regarding extra benefits and expenses for student athletes and their families. Ironically, by providing this money, these [Georgia] fans would in effect become Boise State boosters, said Amy Chisholm, UGA's assistant athletics director for compliance. The NCAA defines a booster as a representative of an institution's athletics interests. NCAA spokeswoman Gail Dent did not have an immediate response to questions about the situation Wednesday. Makes no sense to me, said Hendrix, a 56-year-old marketing consultant. It just hits me that twice in a week, these people have lost touch with reality. The NCAA caused a furor when it ruled last week that member schools' Native American mascots would no longer be allowed at championship events. Word of the Georgia fans' good intentions and their being thwarted spread quickly via the Internet. It was such a nice and giving gesture, I almost felt embarrassed, said Kathy Miller, Tad's mother, who lives in Boise, Idaho. We appreciate it so much. But we want people to know that the company Dan contracts for pays for his RR every six months, and this will be his first time home since January. So his travel is taken care of. Perhaps they can collect money to send some underprivileged kids to the game or something, she added. Kathy Miller said the family received other overtures from Georgia fans. One offered to host a party for the family when it arrives in Athens. Miller said she is running everything by Boise State's compliance office. Said Crowe: Us Georgia fans love our football but, as a collective group, we're pretty hospitable people. Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] DAMN INDIANA WIND!!
ripped my BAMA flag. kurt Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
RE: [RollTideFan] DAMN INDIANA WIND!!
Joel Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did it tump over your trailer too? Nah. I got it secured to some trees with a couple of come-alongs. kurt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Practice Schedule?
Mike Laborde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody have a practice schedule or know where to find one without bugging UA? http://www.ladyinred.net/news Tentative Practice Schedule Thursday, August 11th - 2:30 p.m.: Practice Friday, August 12th - 2:30 p.m.: Practice Saturday, August 13th - 2:30 p.m.: Practice Sunday, August 14th - 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.: Practice Monday, August 15 - 2 p.m.: Practice (Scrimmage) Tuesday, August 16 - 8:30 a.m. or 7:30 p.m.: Practice Wednesday, August 17 - 2:15 p.m.: Practice Thursday, August 18 - 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.: Practice Saturday, August 20 - 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.: Practice and Scrimmage at 3:30 Sunday, August 21 - 7 p.m.: Practice Monday, August 22 - 8:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.: Practice Tuesday, August 23: Practice (Scrimmage) kurt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Before and After..
Like a MIGHTY COLOSSUS OF YORE, she flew proud and brave. For nearly six Fortnights. The winds outta the North blew and blew. Relentlesstormentors they were...Today, they broke her back.Ain't but one place directly north of Kokomo Indiana that would do such to a shrine of mine.In South Bend they are..Before. After. Damn domers.kurt --- Won't back down! __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
RE: [RollTideFan] Fwd: CNN Breaking News
Damn Union labor.. Gonna break Amerika's back they are! kurt --- Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fire the lot of them... Charles Mims http://www.the-sandbox.org Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone. Anthony Burgess -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizard Fish Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 6:34 PM To: 'RollTideFan - University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List' Subject: RE: [RollTideFan] Fwd: CNN Breaking News Because of a worker's strike. The baggers and ticket agents are upset because of the way British Airways is handling the food caterer for the airlines. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Laborde Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:59 PM To: RollTideFan - University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Subject: [RollTideFan] Fwd: CNN Breaking News --- Original Message --- From: CNN Breaking News [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL12.CNN.COM Cc: Sent: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:25:39 -0400 Subject: CNN Breaking News -- British Airways cancels all flights in and out of London's Heathrow Airport until 1 p.m. ET (1700 GMT) Friday. ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Practice Schedule?
Rick McMahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kristy has one of the best, most informative, Bama sites on the WWW. If you're on the list, Kristy, here's a BIG SHOUT OUT to you! PREECH!! kurt Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] The official Rolltidefan search engine
http://www.logogle.com/ggl.php?hl=jalo=Rolltidefan kurt Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Soo..
The boys went to register for skrewell in lovely downtown Greentown, IN. yesterday afternoon. Wearing Bama football jerseys as is the norm. They walk into the counselors' office and low and behold the guy has a huge framed and matted picture of Coach Bryant hanging on the wall. Woof. Gawds I love Bama football! kurt Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Wrong fight?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. - You might be interested in http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/12333609.htm which brings up the case I mentioned early in this dicussion - the Fighting Irish. [...] I donut rightly recall if I set this to RTF. I think I did, but just in case.. http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/columnists/cs-050806downey,1,3448367.column?coll=cs-college-utility Mike Downey No blarney: Leprechaun must go August 7, 2005 I want that leprechaun put to sleep. Do you hear me, NCAA? I don't want to see that darn leprechaun at Notre Dame's games anymore. No more of that goofy green suit. No more of that hokey hat. Most of all, no more of that offensive, insensitive, insulting, dehumanizing dance. As a proud Irish-American, I demand that you make the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame get rid of that stupefying, stereotypical mascot of theirs. And that little jig of his. And I mean pronto, if you'll excuse my use of Indian lingo. Ladies and gentlemen of the NCAA, I implore you. Do that thing you do. Do what you did Friday, when your executive committee announced that it no longer would tolerate any hostile and abusive racial/ethnic/national origin mascots, nicknames or imagery. A leprechaun is all that. He is mischievous by nature. He is up to no good. He clearly is abusive. Have you ever seen him treat Notre Dame's enemies with any kindness? And what of that big, crooked stick in his hand? He doesn't carry that cudgel because he is lame. It isn't a cane. A leprechaun doesn't limp. Look at that little fool do his dance. He moves fine. No, a shillelagh looks like a weapon to me. You wouldn't let a Seminole or an Illini walk around a football stadium with a bow and arrow, would you? I can guess what you are thinking. You're thinking an Irish-American is not an oppressed minority. Or hasn't been one. Well, you couldn't be more wrong. Irish immigrants were given a very bad time in America when they first came here. They were treated as suspicious foreigners. Their ancestry and accents were mocked. They were maligned as Micks and stigmatized as brawling drunks. Therefore, I would like you righteous brothers and sisters at the NCAA to put an end to the degradation of this Fighting Irish slur once and for all. A lot of us don't fight. I don't fight. Well, I did toss a guy out of a bar in Greece last summer, but he was drunker than I was. The NCAA has made a good start. The actions it took Friday gave notice to the Bradley Braves and Central Michigan Chippewas and Utah Utes that they had better take all of their Native American garb, arrowheads, weapons and war paint and dump the whole pile into a Dumpster. If these people want to host a postseason competition ever again, they will have to abide by the NCAA's rules and lose the Indian theme. You, noble warlords of the NCAA, are taking no prisoners. University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux? What do you care if there are Sioux who don't care? So what if there are remaining members of the Sioux tribe who are honored by this legacy? Your edict has come down. You have spoken. The next time North Dakota plays for a national championship, its mascot had better be Buffalo Bill. OK, so a lot of us happen to believe that tribal names are not unto themselves offensive. Illini, Seminole, Chippewa, Choctaw these don't seem so bad to us. They have history and dignity. We have entire states named for Indian tribes, for heaven's sake. What do you think the word Illinois is, anyway French? Its origin is Algonquin. What some of us do resent is the way Caucasians paint their faces red and wear buckskin and feathers and go hey-yo-yo-yo and woo-woo-woo. It doesn't matter if there are some Indians who take no umbrage at this, not until you have taken a vote from every last one of them in this land that their ancestors founded. Jimmy Carter was as humane and decent a president as this nation has had in this last half-century. So it was appalling to see him at Atlanta Braves baseball games, chanting and chopping a make-believe tomahawk. There are ways to support a favorite team without making a mockery of an entire culture and race. Somebody should take those Cleveland Indians caps with the grinning red-faced Indian and fling them into Ohio's largest incinerator. Somebody should go up to an African-American athlete on the Washington Redskins and ask him how he would like it if his team were known as the Washington uh, you know. I don't mind a team being called the Irish, I really don't. I take pride in my heritage. I wish we could live in a world in which a university's teams could be called the Fighting Italians, the Fighting Mexicans, the Fighting Japanese or the Fighting Germans. Yet if we get rid of some, mustn't we get rid of all? Can a school really get away with calling itself the Fighting Irish in the wake of this NCAA posse's vigilant PC crackdown? Doesn't this scurrilous nickname need to go? Isn't it time
[RollTideFan] Poor-formance review
http://tidesports.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050809/NEWS/50809002/1011 BREAKING NEWS: Rader, Kines get raises, contract extensions By Adam Jones Staff Writer August 09, 2005 TUSCALOOSA | Contracts for University of Alabama assistant football coaches Dave Rader and Joe Kines were extended two years and each were given a raise in a short trustee committee meeting Tuesday. Both Rader, offensive coordinator, and Kines, defensive coordinator, contracts were extended to June 30, 2007. Raders annual salary was increased from $212,000 to $217,000, while Kines salary went from $212,000 to $240,000. [...] kurt Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Former professional ball player arrested in raid
http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1123332310139870.xmlcoll=3 Former professional ball player arrested in raid Saturday, August 06, 2005 By JEFF AMY Staff Reporter Former professional football player Ralph Lahquan Staten was arrested early Friday by Mobile County sheriff's deputies on charges of cocaine trafficking and possession of marijuana. Staten, 30, was arrested after deputies raided a trailer in a mobile home park at 5530 Natchez Highway in Wilmer. Deputies found powdered and crack cocaine totaling a little more than two ounces and a small amount of marijuana, according to Christina Bowersox, spokeswoman for the Sheriff's Department. Deputies also seized a handgun and two vehicles. Staten was an all-state player at Mary G. Montgomery High School before signing as a linebacker with the University of Alabama in 1993. Staten was suspended by coach Gene Stallings for breaking team rules, but was also chosen as an all-SEC player. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the seventh round of the 1997 NFL draft and played two seasons. After being released, he played with the Mobile Seagulls of the Indoor Professional Football League and from 2000 to 2002 in the Canadian Football League. While a member of the Ravens, Staten was arrested when a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun was found in his car after he failed to negotiate a curve and struck a guardrail. In a previous incident, Staten was charged with drunken driving when his car collided with another in Baltimore County. Staten was arrested on similar drug charges in a 2004 traffic stop but was never prosecuted, according to court records. He was being held in Mobile County Metro Jail Friday pending a Monday bond hearing. Bowersox said deputies were investigating to see whether other people are involved. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __ Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] University of Alabama Alumni Association of Indiana
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/uaindiana/index.html Congratulations are in order for both the Men's Alabama Basketball team and our new head coach Mike Price. [...] Deer Lowered. kurt Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] University of Alabama Alumni Association of Indiana
A pla of mine I sent this to said that he thot that Indiana BAMA fans were like the rest of BAMA fans. They live in the past. Indiana Bama fans not quite so much. heh.. kurt --- Bryan Benefield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mebbe theyre awaiting somethin better to put up, like makin' it to #24 on the coaches pole... --- kurt rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/uaindiana/index.html Congratulations are in order for both the Men's Alabama Basketball team and our new head coach Mike Price. [...] Deer Lowered. kurt Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Former Bama Kicker Watches His Historic House Burn
nbc13.com Former Bama Kicker Watches His Historic House Burn POSTED: 2:09 pm CDT August 4, 2005 FLORENCE, Ala. -- A century-old two-story house owned by one of Alabama's former star football players sustained heavy damage during a fire in the city's historic district. Van Tiffin became a part of Crimson Tide folklore when his last-second, 52-yard field goal defeated rival Auburn in 1985. He stood helplessly yesterday afternoon as he watched firefighters put out the fire. Tiffin said he and his wife bought the home several months ago and had been renovating it. The blaze was reported to shortly before noon and according to firefighters the home is salvageable. An investigator said the fire apparently started as roofers were welding the portion of the roof that covers the porch to the roof's sloped portion. No one was in the house when the fire started. One firefighter was treated for apparent heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Have a comment about this story? E-mail us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Tide Opener on Pay-Per-View
Tide Opener on Pay-Per-View By Mitch Dobbs Date: Aug 4, 2005 Alabama's season opener against Middle Tennessee will be available for purchase on pay-per-view, Crimson Tide Sports Marketing Director of Broadcasting Tom Roberts said Thursday evening. Roberts made the announcement on the networks weekly call-in show, Hey, Coach!. DirectTV and Dish Network channel information and availability will be released at a later date. Kickoff for the game will be 6 p.m. Alabama's second game of the year, versus Southern Miss, will be broadcast on espn2 beginning at 6:45 p.m. Game three against South Carolina in Columbia, S.C. is scheduled for a 2:30 p.m. CT start with coverage by CBS. __ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Seen this poll yet?
Mike Laborde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.ucsrankings.com/ Bama #3 ??!?!?!?! Crack... Dude's on crack. kurt Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Internet bullets can't stop Croyle
Internet bullets can't stop CroyleBy BRYAN APPAlligator Staff Writer Photo Courtesy of Alabama Sports Information After an ACL tear and false internet rumors of his kidnapping in Argentina, Alabama quarterback Brodie Croyle attempts to overcome past woes and lead the Tide to prominence. HOOVER, Ala. - Smashed shoulder, crushed knee, kidnapped and shot, Alabama quarterback Brodie Croyle has never felt better. That's because Croyle will return as the Crimson Tide quarterback despite rumors of his kidnapping in July in Argentina. Now, disciples of Bear Bryant can rest easy. Before Croyle could become the next Natalee Holloway, the senior dispelled the myths at Southeastern Conference Media Days on Friday. Internet rumors began to swirl shortly after Croyle embarked on a four-day dove hunting excursion with his father and friends in rural Argentina. With no cell phone service, Croyle's crew could check in with relatives back home only at night. But when the quarterback called home one night, his mother notified him of his terrible fate. "My mother said that I was dead," Croyle said. "Another one of my buddies called his mom, and she heard that I'd been shot. And then another one called, she heard we had been kidnapped. I don't know how or where it all got started." Being the center of gossip is commonplace for a starting quarterback at such a tradition-rich program. It's a burden Croyle said he can handle until his family becomes involved. "[My mom] had to sit there for six hours and not know whether we were dead or alive. That was one of the cases of when it went too far," Croyle said. "I guess it's good people don't want to forget about football even though it's the summer and spring. But at some point, enough is enough." But with a promising season on the horizon and Croyle healthy for the first time in nearly two years, it's understandable why Alabama diehards are a little on edge. As a sophomore, Croyle impressed then-rookie head coach Mike Shula, playing through shoulder injuries to gain 2,303 yards - the second most in school history - and tying a school-record 16 touchdowns set by Shula in 1985. "[He] never said a word about it, never," said Shula, who's entering his third season with the Crimson Tide. "Nobody is tougher than Brodie as far as injuries go." During his junior year, however, Croyle's threshold for pain couldn't conquer a season-ending ACL tear in his right knee, suffered a mere three games into the season. After a successful surgery in September, Croyle has made the long road to recovery while answering an estimated 50 to 75 questions per day regarding his health. And sometimes the answers varied, depending on who was asking. "I'd mess with them every once and awhile," Croyle said. "I'd tell them that I'm done playing, that they actually didn't fix my ACL." Now, Croyle might actually be able to provide the answers Alabama fans want to hear. "He's pretty much out of the rehab mode," Shula said. "He's into increasing his strength and conditioning and really looks as good as he ever looked since he's been here. We have got to monitor him, [but] he's at full go right from day one of practice." This season, Croyle plans to stay that way. When asked what he's learned from his ordeal, Croyle responded, "Slide." "I wasn't raised that way," said Croyle, whose father was a defensive end for Bryant at Alabama. "My dad always told me, ?You get every yard you can get when you can get it. And if you can't get off the field, you're season is done one way or the other.' I got the OK from Big John to slide. I'm good to go now."__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Internet bullets can't stop Croyle
Joe Goodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ' I got the OK from Big John to slide. I'm good to go now. I just hope he knows when to do it. I hope he knows when *NOT* to do it. I wonder if his goal is to finish the freakin' year without injury to his slef. If it is, that ain't gonna get it. kurt ---wasn't crazy about that 'OK to slide' comment. Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Former Tide (basketball) player dies in heart surgery
Former Tide player dies in heart surgery 7/31/2005, 2:48 p.m. ET The Associated Press DECATUR, Ala. (AP) Former Alabama basketball player Kenneth Rice died during heart surgery Friday at Huntsville Hospital, his sister says. He was 35. Regina Bass told The Decatur Daily that Rice entered the hospital July 23 with chest pains. She quoted doctors saying Rice's heart was enlarged and weak. He was having surgery to insert an internal defibrillator. Rice, who played for Austin High School in Decatur, redshirted his first year at Alabama and played sparingly the next three seasons. He was part of three Southeastern Conference tournament championship teams in 1989, '90 and '91. In 2000, Rice pleaded guilty to drug charges in a case that also involved former Alabama and Dallas Cowboys running back Sherman Williams of Mobile. Rice served 18 months in a federal prison, but family members and friends said he seemed to be getting his life on track. Rice married his wife, Alethea, on Dec. 31. The couple lived in Madison with their 5-year-old daughter, Alessa. Funeral arrangements were incomplete Sunday. ___ Information from: The Decatur Daily, http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/index.shtml Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Re: Shaun Alexander
Joe Goodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very cool pic! I will try to see if my printer can do anything with it and I'll sandblast the image on a nice beveled mirror. If I can get a template made that is. Can I have one at cost? Please contact off-list. :) kurt ---would like a piece or two of Joe's work. Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] UA season opener set for 6 p.m. kickoff
UA season opener set for 6 p.m. kickoff Thursday, July 21, 2005 STEVE KIRK News staff writer TUSCALOOSA - At least four college football teams in the state will open their 2005 seasons on network television, but the University of Alabama isn't among them. The Crimson Tide's opener Sept. 3 against Middle Tennessee will begin at 6 p.m. at Bryant-Denny Stadium, UA announced Wednesday. Fox Sports Net expressed interest in televising the game, but wanted an afternoon kickoff. The Southeastern Conference discussed that possibility with the network and UA officials, and the university had concerns about holding the contest in the heat of the day. The Alabama-Middle Tennessee game is a candidate for pay-per-view television, although nothing had been announced by UA as of Wednesday. UA Athletics Director Mal Moore said a very limited number of tickets remain for the game. The SEC is still working with Fox Sports Net to find a league team to televise Sept. 3 but also had no announcement Wednesday. The season's opening week will provide many state fans an early look at their teams: On Sept. 1, Jacksonville State's opener against Furman is scheduled for 7 p.m. on College Sports Television. On Sept. 3, the UAB-Tennessee game will be televised by Jefferson-Pilot at 11:30 a.m., ESPN2 will show Alabama State-South Carolina State from Legion Field at 2:30 p.m., and ESPN will show Auburn-Georgia Tech at 7:45 p.m. Alabama has network TV appearances slated for Games 2 and 3 this season. The Southern Miss game Sept. 10 in Tuscaloosa is set for 6:45 p.m. on ESPN2, while the Sept. 17 game at South Carolina begins at 2:30 p.m. on CBS. The South Carolina game is part of an SEC doubleheader on CBS that concludes with Tennessee at Florida at 7 p.m. Most of the Crimson Tide's games are expected to be picked up by network TV. The Utah State game Oct. 29, which is homecoming, has been scheduled for 2 p.m. It could be the only game besides Middle Tennessee not shown on network TV. Next week, the media get a first look at the season with SEC Media Days, a three-day event beginning Wednesday at the Wynfrey Hotel. Crimson Tide players officially report Aug. 8 for preseason practice, but most of them are on campus attending classes and working out. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] © 2005 The Birmingham News © 2005 al.com All Rights Reserved. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Moldy Oldie?
You just came to Texas Tech University as a freshman... You get the opportunity to make it big time as the football teams BELL RINGER during their games... Your whole family, all of your friends, and about 10-15 million ESPN viewers will see you on a Saturday telecast ringing the team's bell But to your whole family, all of your friends, and about 10-15 million ESPN viewers you DO NOT appear to be ringing the teams bell... Watch and see... http://sprinklerdoc.com/bellringer.wmv [...] I hadn't seen it before. heh.. kurt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Deere Krut
Ouch... kurt Rick McMahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - YEE HAW, you go girl. You just got dissed,Kurtster. Rick :) Pat Smoot wrote:Since you asked so nicely: http://tinyurl.com/26b2c Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RTF mailing list RTF@rolltidefan.net http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Hello Bama fans
Jeff Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Krut is my pla, but he moved to Indiana to be closer to Touchdown Jesus. Oh, and he thinks beating Tennessee is more important than beating arbrin. What are your feelings on that particular subject? When ND playes Tennessee this year Iyam gone be wearing the gold baby! Go Irish! kurt Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RTF mailing list RTF@rolltidefan.net http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Deere Krut
Thankee kindly Ms Moot. kurt --- Pat Smoot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real link. http://tinyurl.com/7scve - Original Message - From: kurt rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RollTideFan - University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List RTF@rolltidefan.net Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 8:15 PM Subject: RE: [RollTideFan] Deere Krut On Behalf Of Pat Smoot EAT YORE HART OUT !!! My new BAMA shirt. Ewe have exzackery 24 hours to tell me where the hell ya got that. Include contact info please. OBTW, *you* shoulda got a white one. That way you could have been appropriatly attired. White, like most all household appliances. kurt XOXOXOXO Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RTF mailing list RTF@rolltidefan.net http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net ___ RTF mailing list RTF@rolltidefan.net http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ RTF mailing list RTF@rolltidefan.net http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] BREAKING NEWS: Judge drops case against NCAA
BREAKING NEWS: Judge drops case against NCAA By David Wasson Executive Sports Editor July 20, 2005 Email this story. TUSCALOOSA | Circuit Judge Steven Wilson this morning dismissed all remaining charges against the National Collegiate Athletic Association in a civil suit filed by former University of Alabama coaches Ronnie Cottrell and Ivy Williams. The ruling, which followed the testimony an NCAA clerical worker, came at 11:15 a.m. at the conclusion of a brief sidebar meeting. Absolutely, we feel like this is a victory for us,'' NCAA attorney Robert Rutherford said. What can you say? We've lost against the NCAA, but we definitely will appeal,'' said Tommy Gallion, attorney for Cottrell and Williams. I am like a tick on a hound dog. You will have to burn me off to get rid of me. We will keep going against Tom Culpepper. That's all we have left.'' The trial, which initially sought damages of $60 million, will continue this afternoon against Culpepper, a former recruiting analyst who plaintiffs blame for the loss of their jobs at Alabama. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ RTF mailing list RTF@rolltidefan.net http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Hello Bama fans
Joe Goodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome! We are a no holds barred chat list, so be sure to wear a cup! Joe The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects Speakin' of which Joe Try somethin' for me. After you type yer comments, imbetween said comment and yer name, hit the space bar. Same between yer name and yer sig. It wood look like this: Welcome! We are a no holds barred chat list, so be sure to wear a cup! Joe The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects instead of this: Welcome! We are a no holds barred chat list, so be sure to wear a cup! Joe The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects kurt ---being persnickety __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
RE: [RollTideFan] Hello Bama fans
Mike Laborde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get the recent list lag time problem fixed. Yay fskin' A! If ya can't, lets move this bitch. Although I gots a furball about posting to anything named bamafan. Sorry Slef. kurt __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Hello Bama fans
Jeff Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It ain't a biggernuf furball to keep you from posting to HyPhEnFaGs! :) You'll get over it. Correct ewe aura. kurt 9:34 IST (Indiana Standard Time) Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics E-mail Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan - Wear a Cup! To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription, please visit http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
RE: [RollTideFan] Deere Krut
On Behalf Of Pat Smoot EAT YORE HART OUT !!! My new BAMA shirt. Ewe have exzackery 24 hours to tell me where the hell ya got that. Include contact info please. OBTW, *you* shoulda got a white one. That way you could have been appropriatly attired. White, like most all household appliances. kurt XOXOXOXO Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ RTF mailing list RTF@rolltidefan.net http://rolltidefan.net/mailman/listinfo/rtf_rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] If yer tryin' to order tickets and can't get through
try this direct link. http://ev7.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventList?groupCode=F04linkID=ubamashopperContext=caller=appCode= or http://snipurl.com/85f3 Already sold out all the SEC games. kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Javvy...
Did you just hijack a newsgroup? How'd ya do that? kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Javvy...
(I think) Ya hijacked one. :) Here's a couple www links. I donut know news groups/USENET, but I damn well never read RTF on these links. :) http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8group=alabama.sports.alabama http://news.kornet.net/group.cgi?group=alabama.sports.alabama kurt M Laborde wrote Nope. Trying to create one and gateway this list to it. How'd you know? Sunday, July 18, 2004, 8:55:54 PM, you wrote: kr Did you just hijack a newsgroup? kr How'd ya do that? __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Javvy...
M Laborde wrote: MN. You been checkin' out alabama.sports.alabama, huh? Yes. kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Crimson Tide Pioneer Is Often Overlooked
July 18, 2004 Crimson Tide Pioneer Is Often Overlooked *By LYNN ZINSER* ilbur Jackson watched the myth unfold from his seat in Legion Field in Birmingham on a hot September night in 1970. He was an Alabama freshman, his presence virtually unknown. He was the university's first black football recruit, but freshmen were ineligible to play. So the myth about the integration of Alabama athletics grew instead around Sam Cunningham, a black running back for Southern California. He played so spectacularly in that 42-21 victory over the Crimson Tide, it was said he alone had persuaded Alabama Coach Bear Bryant to begin recruiting black players. It was such a colorful tale that even those who lived through the era often forget the key detail: Bryant had already recruited Jackson. Those who knew Bryant have a theory that the Southern Cal game was not a revelation but a part of his plan to convince Alabama fans of the wisdom of integration. He called Southern Cal Coach John McKay to schedule the game. He also invited Cunningham into the Alabama locker room after the game and instructed his players to shake his hand. My feeling was that he waited until he thought the time was right, said Sylvester Croom, who joined Bryant's second class of black recruits, in 1971. I really believe that game with Southern Cal was an instrument in the plan of getting that done. He knew Southern Cal had black players. The unique thing to me was he scheduled that first game in Alabama. There's no question in my mind that was not an accident. Croom, like so many blacks in Alabama, remembers watching that game on television and rooting fiercely for Southern Cal. Unaware of Jackson's presence, they had no reason to identify with the home team. Bryant's role in integration is more complicated than it seems. In the early 60's, he vowed to keep his team segregated, but he changed his mind. He said later that he had grown. As Alabama's athletic director, he opened the door for the basketball coach, C. M. Newton, to recruit Wendell Hudson, a forward from Birmingham. Newton believed Hudson could handle the role of being Alabama's first black athlete. Hudson arrived without incident because everyone knew Bryant was behind the decision. Who's going to buck Coach Bryant in Alabama? Hudson said. When Bryant brought in black football players, he vowed to treat everyone the same. His players recall not a whiff of prejudice. Everybody had so much respect for him, said John Mitchell, a junior-college transfer who became the first African-American to play for Bryant. He treated me like I was a son. He made it easy. I did not have one problem there. Bryant's players, black and white, still speak of him reverently. He worked them hard. He expected excellence and dedication, accepted no excuses. But the players say they also knew he cared about them. When he saw them outside of practice, they say, he invariably asked about their parents. I guess because you saw this man with this growling face that looked like it was made of granite, people thought he just had to be a racist, said Croom's brother Kelvin, who also played for Bryant in the 70's. He was one of the most gentle people. He was also a man who planned meticulously. One of those plans, though, may have been widely misunderstood. Wilbur Jackson had the front-row seat. __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Have we seen last of Oliver?
M Laborde wrote: 4th and 19... 4th and nine-fucking-teen!!! The agony of that will be felt in my heart for the rest of my life. PR33CH JAVVY!! PR33CH!! ! In 5 damn OT's!FIVE!! And against the team that is, arguably, our biggest rival. True dat. I hate Tessesse and so should you! kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Gottfried avoids speculation on Ohio State job
*http://www.tidesports.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040626/NEWS/40626001/1011 UPDATE: Gottfried avoids speculation on Ohio State job* By David Wasson Executive Sports Editor June 26, 2004 TUSCALOOSA | University of Alabama men's basketball coach Mark Gottfried made his first public comment surrounding the Ohio State coaching vacancy Saturday morning, but declined to say whether he had contact with the Buckeyes. It is my belief that it isn't appropriate to discuss any job other than the one I have, which by the way is one I really like, Gottfried said in a telephone interview Saturday morning. I've been in similar situations in the past few years, and it is my position not to talk publicly about it. When then asked if he had been contacted by Ohio State, Gottfried replied I think I have already answered that question. Gottfried, who was in Tuscaloosa all day Friday and made several stops at the Mark Gottfried Basketball Camp going on throughout the weekend both at Coleman Coliseum and the university's recreation center, had been declining to comment for two days on the Ohio State issue. He played golf with UA football coach Mike Shula on Thursday morning at Shoal Creek in Birmingham, then spoke at a function in Murray, Ky., before returning to Tuscaloosa on Thursday night. Gottfried, 40, is a Crestline, Ohio, native who is fresh from guiding Alabama to a 20-13 record and a berth in the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight, where the Crimson Tide lost to eventual national champion Connecticut. Asked Wednesday if Ohio State officials had spoken to Gottfried, Buckeyes athletic director Andy Geiger declined to answer. Athletic department spokesman Steve Snapp said later, We have not offered the position to anybody. Snapp was asked if Geiger had talked to Gottfried. He said, The answer would be no. He has not been in contact with him. Among the other potential candidates for Ohio States vacancy, which was created when Jim OBrien was fired on June 8 after Geiger said OBrien admitted he had given $6,000 to a recruit in 1999, are Marquettes Tom Crean, Minnesotas Dan Monson, ESPN analyst George Karl, Los Angeles Lakers assistant Jim Cleamons, Rutgers coach Gary Waters, Penn coach Fran Dunphy and possibly Xavier coach Thad Matta. David Wasson can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or at (205) 722-0229. __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] (non) Hey Javvy!!
Sorry bout all those links to the MIGHT USU AGG33Z Football stadium. They are, after all, a basketball school. http://utahstateaggies.collegesports.com/genrel/062504aab.html?page=1 I'll let y'all know if a web cam comes on line! :) kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] SOOPER SEKRET FOOTBALL TRICK!!
AGG33Z GONE ROLL! ! kurt M Laborde wrote: Please stop sending thanks. Pass it on. Thursday, June 24, 2004, 6:44:40 PM, you wrote: k Donut tell nobody else or I will pay with my life! If I'm lyin', I'm k dyin'!! k You want that first down on a close call? You want the opposition to k get nair-E a break? k Here it is folks. k Really... Ya gotta keep this down home cuz ifyaknowwhatImean. k Really... k The secret is. __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Kickoff Times Set for Four Tide Home Football Games
Jeff Todd wrote: Say what you want, but the temperatures at those later starting times have to work in our favor. No doubt but, here's what pisses kurt off. Those night games are gonna be easy to score tickets to. Face value or less. And I WANNA GO! But I donut wanna pay for overnight lodging, and I donut wanna be getting home at 2AM in damn the morning. I cannot have butter on both sides of my bread damnit. kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Age Survey
RuckRoolz! kurt Pat Smoot wrote: Krut, Ruck is older than us !!! - Original Message - From: Rick McMahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RollTideFan-The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 1:44 PM Subject: RE: [RollTideFan] Age Survey 17136 days old. :) RTR! Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pat Smoot Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [RollTideFan] Age Survey Would everyone please post their truthful age? That includes VO LC. __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Today was hot..
So I was sloven. (mostly) http://216.77.188.54/coDataImages/p/Groups/29/29335/folders/152551/1093951P1160016.JPG kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Storm
My yard this morning.. * http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=331folderid=150496groupid=29335folderview=thumbsck= kurt * __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Storm
Jeff Todd wrote: DAMN! Well, at least they ain't know holes in yore house. Yup. That thing hanging on the wires is the pool cover. It's about 5/600 feet away. Glad to see the trampoline wrecked. Hope you don't replace it. Them thangs ain't good for nothin but hurtin kids. Iyam half and half with ya on this thot. They bought it, and they got some _severe_ rules on using, but I've never been 100% comfortable with the damn thing. kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Storm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that looks like where i live at. do you live near killen alabama Hazel Green. kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Storm
Joe Goodson wrote: Ouch.. Hope you got a good chainsaw Krut. A chainsaw is on the wish list! I fired up the generator. 1. Coffee Maker 2. Fridge kurt--- thirsty feller __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Tide-Tigers not what it used to be
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/sports/columns/040512.shtml Tide-Tigers not what it used to be At some point before the college football season starts, a media outlet will do another one of those polls ranking the greatest rivalries in the sport. When that happens, all the Alabama and Auburn fans will team up to become odd brethren, voting to boost the score for the Iron Bowl. It won't matter. Alabama-Auburn still won't win, because it's not the rivalry it once was. In-state, neighbor-to-neighbor, the Iron Bowl still holds enormous weight. But that doesn't make it much different from other games throughout the country. Sure, it's more intense here, we say. But is it anymore? It used to be Tigers and Crimson Tide fans didn't need to vote their game No. 1. It simply was, and football fans knew it. A variety of factors during the past few years have downgraded the Iron Bowl from the ranks of Duke-North Carolina basketball to just your typical, intense, in-state football game. It's a shame, really, but there are solid reasons: # Tennessee: If you were to poll Alabama fans on which school they'd rather beat this season, Auburn or Tennessee, the majority would say the Vols. It's true. Not in the past, of course. But, this year, after the Tommy Gallion lawsuit and accusations that Vols coach Phillip Fulmer played a large role in the Tide's latest NCAA sanctions, you can't think Alabama fans wouldn't rather put a licking on him in Knoxville. A few years ago, this would have been unthinkable. Then again, so would all the craziness surrounding this highly public fiasco that keeps picking up steam. # Records: The Iron Bowl simply doesn't mean as much nationally because of the stakes. Erratic Alabama is 45-40 since Gene Stallings retired after the 1996 season. That includes a three-win season and two four-win years. While the Tide has been up and down, the Tigers have been consistently lukewarm, never reaching double-digit wins in a season under Tommy Tuberville. This means the Iron Bowl now boasts little national importance for either team, much less both of them, as was the case as recently as the mid-1990s. # Changing SEC: Now that Florida and Tennessee have faded, Georgia and LSU have emerged as the league's dominant teams. A look at recruiting classes and depth charts indicates that probably won't change anytime soon. The result is that the LSU game becomes the most significant, if not most intense, contest for Auburn and Alabama. Then, the Tigers get the Bulldogs in late November. While it's not the rivalry of Alabama, it's close and getting closer. There's little secret Tuberville and Mark Richt aren't pals. Neither are fans of the two schools. Auburn's coaching staff was nearly history after losing at Georgia last season. # Coaching changes: Right now, Alabama fans have more reasons than Auburn fans to dislike Mike Shula. Given the new Alabama coach's timid comments and flair for political correctness, Tigers fans probably won't have one. Tuberville isn't liked by Bama Nation, but he's respected enough to not be genuinely hated the way, say, Terry Bowden was or Fulmer is now. Dennis Franchione? Now there was a coach you could hate. That other school he went out of his way to heat this baby up. # Home and home: There's no question the move from Legion Field to each school's campus hurt the rivalry. The neutral site was a defining characteristic of this series, though many at Auburn felt it wasn't quite so neutral. The Tigers may have had a point, but it's just not the same feel with partisan crowds. # Crisis: If it's true misery loves company, then Alabama and Auburn are joined at the hip these days. Scandal after scandal in the past 12 years have left the state's football image tarnished, and so Tide and Tigers fans have joined under the same flag to defend the reputation of the state, and therefore, the other school. Just when one side appears to have wiped itself out, the other's president and athletics director jump on a plane for Louisville, Ky. Therefore, the cycle repeats itself. Nobody wins, and the Iron Bowl is a victim. __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Preseason ...
I donnut like Utah. (Although CUM appears to be doing pretty well there.) Utah _State_ OTOH... kurt Devan Orange wrote: I just don't see some of the rankings, but it is preseason. Utah in the top 25?? (sorry krut) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick McMahan Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:06 PM To: RollTideFan Subject: [RollTideFan] Preseason ... Bama's not mentioned, but here's a look ahead at the projected top teams according to Stewart Mandel at SI. He thinks the Dawgs are loaded to the point that they'll make a run at the MNC. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/stewart_mandel/spring.powerran kings/index.html __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Preseason ...
I think that's the other Utah Skrewel your talkin 'bout. BYZoo. kurt Devan Orange wrote: I thought all you multi-wivers stuck together. ducking Devan -Original Message- krut wrote: I donnut like Utah. (Although CUM appears to be doing pretty well there.) Utah _State_ OTOH... kurt Devan Orange wrote: I just don't see some of the rankings, but it is preseason. Utah in the top 25?? (sorry krut) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick McMahan Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:06 PM To: RollTideFan Subject: [RollTideFan] Preseason ... Bama's not mentioned, but here's a look ahead at the projected top teams according to Stewart Mandel at SI. He thinks the Dawgs are loaded to the point that they'll make a run at the MNC. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/stewart_mandel/spring.powerran kings/index.html __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Preseason ...
Joe Goodson is SMRAT!! kurt Joe Goodson wrote: Multi - wivers? LOL How the heck do they handle more than one? Joe Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong. Ronald Reagan - Original Message - From: Devan Orange [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'RollTideFan-The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 1:20 PM Subject: RE: [RollTideFan] Preseason ... I thought all you multi-wivers stuck together. ducking Devan -Original Message- krut wrote: I donnut like Utah. (Although CUM appears to be doing pretty well there.) Utah _State_ OTOH... kurt Devan Orange wrote: I just don't see some of the rankings, but it is preseason. Utah in the top 25?? (sorry krut) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick McMahan Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:06 PM To: RollTideFan Subject: [RollTideFan] Preseason ... Bama's not mentioned, but here's a look ahead at the projected top teams according to Stewart Mandel at SI. He thinks the Dawgs are loaded to the point that they'll make a run at the MNC. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/stewart_mandel/spring.powerran kings/index.html __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Leon Douglas... Head Coach
I donut know the feller. Some of y'all might. http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/7308025 Former Crimson Tide standout Douglas takes over at Stillman May 5, 2004 SportsLine.com wire reports TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Leon Douglas, who led Alabama to three Southeastern Conference championships and played seven seasons in the NBA, was introduced as head basketball coach at Stillman College on Wednesday. Douglas was the first Crimson Tide player to be picked in the first round of the NBA Draft, chosen fourth overall by Detroit in 1976. Douglas spent four seasons with the Pistons and his final three NBA seasons were with the Kansas City Kings before playing in Europe. Douglas, who had been working with the Oakland Intermediate School District in Bloomfield, Mich., spent two years as the assistant general manager and assistant coach of an Italian basketball team. Douglas was a second-team AP All-America in 1975 and a third-team pick in 1976[...] kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] PULL! (non)
http://www.richsalter.btinternet.co.uk/cks2/index2.html kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Gallion v. the NCAA
http://www.al.com/sports/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/sports/1083489430226850.xml Gallion v. the NCAA Sunday, May 02, 2004 By THOMAS MURPHY Sports Reporter MONTGOMERY -- When Tommy Gallion gets involved in your legal proceedings, you'd better brace yourself, cover the kids' ears and heed this caution: Objects in your mirror may be larger than they appear. The Montgomery-based lawyer was so locked into a recent cell phone conversation with a radio station that he failed to see a car cruising beside him as he searched for a parking space. Listeners to the radio show were treated to the squeal of brakes, the screech of a minor impact and vintage Gallion: Oh s--, I just hit somebody. Alabama governors, attorneys general and even Hank Williams Jr. have been left wondering what hit them after encountering Gallion. Gallion is representing Volkert Associates Inc. in the engineering firm's highly publicized lawsuit against two members of the Mobile County school board. He and his law firm -- Haskell, Slaughter, Young Gallion, LLC of Montgomery -- have taken on several government agencies and represented powerful greyhound tracks owner Milton McGregor. But Gallion's notoriety among sports fans has spiked since he became a cen tral figure in the hottest issue to ignite the Southeastern Conference in years. As the combative lead attorney for Team Cottrell, Gallion is challenging the NCAA's treatment of the University of Alabama football program, which was hit with damaging sanctions in 2002, while fighting to restore the reputations of his clients, former Tide assistant coaches Ronnie Cottrell and Ivy Williams. Gallion has waged a verbal, public war, trying to prove a conspiracy existed between the NCAA, University of Tennessee boosters, UT football coach Phillip Fulmer, the FBI, the Justice Department and others to destroy Crimson Tide football. His role in the case has football fans from Mobile to Knoxville wondering: Who is Tommy Gallion? He's bad to the bone, said Cottrell, the Brewton native who filed the $60 million defamation lawsuit against the NCAA and others. Cocky and contentious: Thomas Travis Gallion III, 60, wears his status as a fourth-generation University of Alabama graduate as a badge of honor and has for 32 years built his reputation in state legal circles as a firebrand attorney not afraid to take on anyone or any cause. He doesn't back down from anybody, said Memphis attorney Phillip Shanks, a member of the self-titled Team Cottrell. I sit in awe watching the way Tommy has brought together the disparate elements of this lawsuit and the way he's able to keep all the facts at instant recall. Montgomery attorney Tommy Keene has known Gallion for more than 30 years. Though he has never appeared in court against Gallion, he has dealt with the flamboyant lawyer while defending former University of Alabama compliance officials Gene Marsh and Marie Robbins in the Cottrell lawsuit. Marsh and Robbins were dismissed from that lawsuit two weeks ago and have now given affidavits that help Cottrell's side. He's a gregarious, outgoing fellow, Keene said. He loves to get a cause like this one and promote it and talk about it. He's not a traditional, what I'd call a plaintiff or defense lawyer. He's more a cause lawyer. He's a cocky and contentious lawyer, too, according to both friends and foes. In venturing into high-profile, bitter legal confrontations with the NCAA and, most recently, Tennessee's Fulmer, Gallion's legal maneuvering has evolved into a long-running sideshow. Then again, Gallion viewed the NCAA's case against Alabama much the same way. The centerpiece of the NCAA's case was an accusation that Alabama booster Logan Young paid Memphis-Trezevant High School coach Lynn Lang $115,000 to steer All-American defensive lineman Albert Means to Alabama. After a 1-year investigation, the Tide football program was judged by the NCAA to be guilty of 11 major violations, including other boosters allegedly providing cash and a car for Alabama football players. When the NCAA punished Alabama in February 2002 -- giving the Tide five years of probation, a two-year bowl ban and cutting 21 scholarships over three years -- infractions committee chairman Thomas Yeager said: They were absolutely staring down the barrel of the gun and added Alabama narrowly avoided the NCAA's dreaded death penalty. Cottrell wasn't named in any of the major violations but was found by the NCAA to have accepted an improper loan from Young of $55,000, then not reporting it when asked directly about it by the NCAA. In December 2002, Cottrell filed his $60 million civil suit, saying he had been defamed by the NCAA and had been unable to find another job in coaching because of the investigation. Williams joined the suit last summer. Gallion became the lead attorney in the lawsuit and insisted the university and those accused of wrongdoing were denied due process
[RollTideFan] Price dropping suit against Witt
http://www.al.com/alabama/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/sports/1083489592226870.xml Price dropping suit against Witt Sunday, May 02, 2004 MIKE BOLTON News staff writer Fired Alabama football coach Mike Price will drop a lawsuit against University of Alabama president Robert Witt that alleges Witt stepped beyond his duty in firing Price last May, Price's attorney said Friday. The request to dismiss the lawsuit, which alleged fraud and misrepresentation, was sent to Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court on Friday, attorney Steve Heninger said. The lawsuit was filed on March 22. While he still believes the suit against Witt has merit, Heninger said, he will now shift all of his energy to Price's lawsuit against Time Inc. Price sued Time Inc., the parent company of Sports Illustrated, saying an article published after Price's firing forever damaged his reputation and his ability to get a major coaching job. Heninger said Witt was candid and cooperative in the deposition he gave for the lawsuit against Time Inc. That was also a factor in the dismissal of the lawsuit against Witt, Heninger said. Price made a mistake in going to a strip club and getting drunk during a golf tournament in Pensacola, Fla., last April and admitted it, according to Heninger. Price disagrees, Heninger said, with Witt's decision to fire him and how it was handled. Heninger said he believes part of the reason Price was fired was Witt's concern over the upcoming Sports Illustrated article. Witt said in his deposition that he was aware that Sports Illustrated was doing an article on Price and was concerned about it, according to Heninger. Witt has said previously that the SI article was unrelated to his decision. Price claims the SI article contained seven areas of inaccuracy. In addition to the SI lawsuit, Price sued the university and Witt in his official capacity, but a judge dismissed that lawsuit last year. Then Price filed the March 2004 lawsuit naming Witt as the sole defendant. __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] btw...
Anyone on this list have a scanner and a copy of the Mobile Register? http://www.al.com/sports/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/sports/1083489430226850.xml Photos published for the first time in today's Register show Fulmer and Culpepper happily greeting each other moments after Tennessee beat Alabama on Oct. 21, 2000, in Knoxville. Ten kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Re: btw...
kurt rasmussen wrote: Anyone on this list have a scanner and a copy of the Mobile Register? http://www.al.com/sports/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/sports/1083489430226850.xml Photos published for the first time in today's Register show Fulmer and Culpepper happily greeting each other moments after Tennessee beat Alabama on Oct. 21, 2000, in Knoxville. Ten Found 'em. http://www.edaylilies.com/scan%20(Large).jpg kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] How do you keep from laughing out loud ...
Jeff Todd wrote: When your 10 year old son says: When I get old enough to drive, I'm gonna get a big Hummer!? Ya gots a smrat boy! kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Walter Sharpe..
http://www.collegehoopsnet.com/sec/alabama/050104.htm kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Not quite sure what to make of this..
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWS/StorySportstancol2o.htm ESPN to air Tillman service live on Monday ESPN on Monday will televise live the public memorial service for Cpl. Pat Tillman beginning at 5 p.m. The service, expected to last about 90 minutes, will be held at the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden in San Jose, Calif. The Tillman family has established the Pat Tillman Foundation and, in lieu of flowers, invites donations. Because ESPN is televising the Tillman servive, Monday's 5 p.m. SportsCenter will be shown on ESPN2. [...] The damn typo prolly ain't helping any. kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] foto...
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Re: [RollTideFan] foto...
Tim Boozer wrote: http://www.unclaimedmysteries.net/images/briandennehystadium_ir00.jpg That dude that took the picture, Corry Smith, is a bigtime aubie. Notice he named the pic BRIANDENNEHYstadium I did. kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] ROLL DAMN TIDE!!
http://www.angelfire.com/al/bamacrimsontide/images/thesack.jpg kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Call yo' mama
http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2004/05/01/community/community/ece1298a0083225e86256e83001cc2a8.txt Call yo' mama You didn't have to be from Alabama to cheer for legendary football coach, Bear Bryant. By popular and professional consensus, Bryant was the greatest American college football coach of all time. He served as head coach for Alabama University for the final 24 years of his career. The late Lewis Grizzard, humorist and sports writer for the Atlanta Constitution, told this true story about Bear. Grizzard was having dinner one night with a group of South Central Bell executives in Point Clear, Alabama. They began swapping stories about Bryant, then deceased. A gentleman from South Central Bell told about hiring Bear Bryant to do a phone commercial for them. Now keep in mind that Bear Bryant's personality was that of a folksy, country, down-home, good-ole-boy. His line at the end of the commercial was call yo' mama, as only Bear could say it. Departing from the written script, Bryant added a line of his own. He drawled, call yo' mamma, and then with a reflective sigh added, . . .I wish I could call mine. The sentiment expressed in that added line resonated a common thread with all the listeners and proved to be an instant hit. The CEO for the phone company told of receiving a call shortly after the commercial aired. A viewer called to thank him. My husband and I were sitting watching television the other night when we saw the commercial for the first time. We were very moved when coach Bryant said, I wish I could call mine. I got right up and called my mother. She added that she'd forget to call her sometimes and knew that her mother worried about her. The caller went on to say that she told her husband that he ought to call his mother. He went straight to the phone and they must have talked for 45 minutes. I've never known him to stay on the line with anybody for 45 minutes, much less with his mother. She confided to the phone executive how her husband talked about old times and told his mother how much he loved her. The executive thanked the caller for sharing the account and told her it was really a heartwarming story . He started to hang up when the caller said, Wait, you haven't heard all the story yet. Less than an hour after my husband hung up from talking to his mother, she died. He would have never had that conversation with his mother if it hadn't been for coach Bryant's commercial. Well, dear readers, do you get the message? A week from tomorrow is Mother's Day. . So. . . call yo' mama. . . I sure wish I could. __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Non Bama For Krut ... This may explain it
James wrote: http://www.goat-trauma.org/ DooD. I *like* petting zoos. Butt it ain't cause of the damn goats! kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] DOG POO PIE (non)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14195999method=fullsiteid=50143headline=wife-feeds-huband-dog-poo-pie-name_page.html WIFE FEEDS HUBAND DOG POO PIE By Steve Mccomish A SPURNED wife took revenge on her cheating husband by feeding him a dog poo pie. Cindy Wilson Ham, 42, was distraught when she discovered her husband had an 18-month-old child with another woman. She threw him out of their Kent home after 25 years together, but invited him back for a last supper with a difference. Mixing some of their dog's poo into a meat and vegetable pie she topped it off with a pastry crust. Mrs Wilson Ham said: I thought well, if he can talk crap and come out with crap he is going to eat some crap.While I was cooking it, it felt very, very good. And amazingly her husband agreed, telling her: That was the best pie I've eaten in ages. She revealed her plot on the documentary Revenge: Getting Even With Your Ex, to screen on Five on Wednesday. I wanted something that would make me laugh, she said. Her husband called her evil when he learnt the truth, but daughter Danielle said: He deserves every bit. Another woman, Jill Woods, 29, from Woodbridge, Surrey, told the programme she had urinated in a love rival's moisturiser. MUM Pamela Sanderson, 36, who caused £20,000 damage with a hammer in her ex-partner's new home, has been given an 80-hour community order. Sheffield crown court heard Kevin Colley, 42, left her bankrupt. __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] WAL-MART IS KILLIN' WINN-DIXIE DAMNIT!
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Re: [RollTideFan] WAL-MART IS KILLIN' WINN-DIXIE DAMNIT!
Pat Smoot wrote: Please explain. http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/business/8561822.htm Winn Dixie ROOLZ! Wal-Mart drools.. kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] WAL-MART IS KILLIN' WINN-DIXIE DAMNIT!
Charles wrote: Filth is killing Winn Dixie. Down here we have several WD's, and every single one of them if filthy. In fact I can't remember the last time I've been in a clean oneoh wait, they opened a new one about 8 years ago in New Smyrna Beach and it was clean. They just remodeled one down the road from me and it's still just as filthy as it was. That's what is killing Winn Dixie. I refuse to shop in a pig sty. I donut blame you. Thank gawdz that's not the case around here. Here's what I *do* know... YOU CAN'T BEAT WINN-DIXIES MEAT! ($1) kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Deer Joe Goodson
Be careful out there! http://www.poconorecord.com/topstory/tdo08342.htm kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] ROLL DAMN TIDE!
Rick McMahan wrote: Just had to shout it out! I don't know why. :) 128 days till kickoff PR33CH!! Oooh Elphants Yeah! http://www.rathergood.com/elephants/ kurt---I still love that link __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Watch clip in Quicktime..
http://www.commercialcloset.org/cgi-bin/iowa/portrayals.html?record=44 heh... kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Fletcher signs free-agent deal with Chiefs
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/sports/040428/fletcher.shtml Fletcher signs free-agent deal with Chiefs From Staff Reports Former Alabama receiver Zach Fletcher of Moulton could wind up catching passes from ex-Tennessee quarterback Casey Clausen in the NFL. The players were among 11 rookies to sign free-agent contracts with the Kansas City Chiefs, team president Carl Peterson announced Tuesday. Fletcher, who graduated from Lawrence County High and played basketball at Calhoun Community College, caught 28 passes in two years at Alabama for 691 yards and five touchdowns. One of the touchdowns came on a 56-yard bomb from Brodie Croyle in a 34-14 win over Tennessee in 2002. Clausen started 44 games for the Vols and threw for 9,707 yards and 75 touchdowns. [...] Yuck.. kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] The draft this weekend
Rick McMahan wrote: Hey Kurt. I just read that Shaud signed as a rookie free agent with Buffalo. Sure hope he makes the squad. IAWTP!! kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Tillman article on ESPN...
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=kreidler_markid=1790265 kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Leading the way
Rick McMahan wrote: BTW, Eli came across as a spoiled brat cry baby by refusing to play for the chargers. I kinda agree. Kinda. http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040423/SPORTS/404230383/1025 kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] insert name and insert name
SITTIN' IN A TREE! K-I-S-S-I-N-G http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2u=/040423/480/nyr11604230107e=5ncid=1756 kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] The draft this weekend
I sure hope Shaud Williams makes it in. That is all. kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Smiley's in..
http://www.foxsports.com/named/FS/NFL/Draft/tracker?refreshRate=60 2nd round #46 49ers Justin Smiley G 6-4 293 Alabama kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] possible new end-zone paint job..
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Re: [RollTideFan] possible new end-zone paint job..
IAWTP!! ROLL TIDE! kurt ps, just for the hell of it. I HATE TENNESSEE AND SO SHOULD YOU! Jason Houston wrote: I like it! But some good numbers on the scoreboard would look better than all the paint jobs in the world... - Original Message - From: kurt rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tidefans.com/~yellcrew/New_Endzone_1.JPG __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Teh Supreme court by Gawd!
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FBN_CLARETT_NFL?SITE=KYLOUSECTION=HOMETEMPLATE=DEFAULT Apr 20, 7:17 PM EDT Clarett Takes Draft Case to Supreme Court By RUSTY MILLER AP Sports Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Maurice Clarett filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to try to force his way into this weekend's NFL draft. Clarett's attorney, Alan Milstein, asked for a stay of a decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals preventing the former Ohio State tailback from entering the draft. We're hoping justice will prevail and Mr. Clarett will play football - which is what he was born to do and which is what he is ready to do, Milstein said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. [...] kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Teh Supreme court by Gawd!
Tim Boozer wrote: It's their damn business! They can run it however they like without government intrusion. What about the NCAA? Can they run their organization however they like? kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] It's all about academics damnit!
http://www.al.com/sportsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/sports-4/108231804731130.xml NCAA panel considering sweeping reforms By MICHAEL MAROT The Associated Press 4/18/2004, 2:48 p.m. CT INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- For nearly two years, Todd Turner has worked to return academic integrity to college sports. For two months, David Berst has tried to rewrite recruiting rules. Both are about to face a major test. The NCAA Management Council meets Monday and Tuesday to consider sweeping proposals endorsed by NCAA president Myles Brand and designed to change the culture and image of intercollegiate athletics. Both are very critical areas for us, said council chairwoman Christine Plonsky, women's athletic director at Texas. Common sense can prevail very, very easily. In the academic world, we're moving into a new direction. Turner, the former athletic director at Vanderbilt, heads a committee that developed an ambitious proposal to penalize schools when student-athletes consistently perform poorly in the classroom. Berst, an NCAA vice president, oversees a panel examining recruiting rules. That group's ideas also will be discussed this week. If the proposal from Turner's committee is passed by the council this week and approved by the NCAA Board of Directors on April 29, schools could be penalized as early as next year. The NCAA would look at graduation rates and general academic progress of athletes, assigning a score to each of the more than 6,000 Division I teams in all sports. If a team then falls below a certain standard, which will be determined when data is collected from 2004-05, incremental penalties would include a warning letter, loss of scholarships, disqualification from NCAA tournaments and loss of money from NCAA championships. The penalty would increase each year, meaning a school would have to produce substandard results for four consecutive years to face the harshest penalty: loss of money. If a school falls below the standard, and players who would have been academically ineligible the following year leave school, those scholarships would be lost for one year. Turner said there would be no limit on how many scholarships could be lost, although there would be an appeals process. I will be pleased when there is evidence that behaviors have changed and our student-athletes are more like students than professionals, Turner said. This is one of the most significant things we've tried to do to make academics important. Turner's committee also wanted to reward schools that exceeded the standards. Adding scholarships and increasing on-campus visits were both considered before being ruled out. Now it appears any reward primarily would be additional publicity for the team. Plonsky said the biggest concern she's heard from schools, coaches and athletic directors is that it's not clear where the academic bar will be set. Still, the package is expected to pass. It's hard not to support academic reform. We all feel an obligation, Plonsky said. The other major issue this week is recruiting. Berst led a task force appointed by Brand in February after highly publicized scandals at Colorado and Miami. The task force has made several recommendations to restrict over-the-top wining and dining of recruits. It also asked universities to implement their own policies. Berst, the NCAA's former head of enforcement, said if the schools put a policy in writing, the NCAA could then hold the school accountable to those policies. Additional measures could be proposed at the Management Council's July meeting in Baltimore with the hope that new recruiting standards would be in place by this fall. Berst will make the recommendations this week, but a vote is not expected. The task force ruled out stricter changes that could have eliminated paid visits by recruits completely. But the panel might reconsider cutting the number of paid visits a recruit can take before the final proposal is completed. This has exactly the right kind of teeth, Berst said. It's the manner in which you show the teeth that's important. If we have institutions help us design things, it seems to have a better chance of actually changing the culture. __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Chicken
Jeff Todd wrote: Put the wing tips up to its throat. So I told it again, except this time in more graphic detail. The damn thing walks up to the camera and gives me the shamey-shamey with its wing tips! Am I to believe there REALLY IS a subservient chicken at that URL? You know, some broke college kid trying to make a bock...er, buck. Cuz one time earlier today I told it to breakdance, and the damn thing commenced to breaking it down 1980's style! Funky Chicken wouldn't nothing but a thang! Tonight I tried the same things and got nothing on breakdance, and very little on funky chicken. However, tonight when I told it to spank the monkey, it started popping its arse. fwiw.. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63053,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3 Though the site looks like a live feed, it appears to be a collection of short movie clips triggered by keywords in the user's requests. kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Chicken
http://www.subservientchicken.com/ heh.. kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Chicken
chicken sandwich kurt Jeff Todd wrote: I typed in Choke your chicken. Guess what happened? Slef E. - Original Message - From: Joe Goodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RollTideFan-The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [RollTideFan] Chicken someone has way too much time on their hands Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. - John Adams, in Defense of the British Soldiers on trial for the Boston Massacre, December 4, 1770 - Original Message - From: kurt rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: rtf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 3:05 PM Subject: [RollTideFan] Chicken http://www.subservientchicken.com/ heh.. kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Deer Bama and Clempson and the rest
Thankee for the cash. http://utahstateaggies.collegesports.com/genrel/041504aab.html kurtAGG33 feetball whore __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Nationwide
http://birmingham.bizjournals.com/birmingham/stories/2004/04/12/daily18.html?jst=b_ln_hl Finebaum first Alabama show on XM Radio Gilbert Nicholson Staff The Paul Finebaum Radio Network debuted on XM Satellite Radio this week, making it the first Alabama-based program to be carried on the nationwide system. [...] kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] No Quarterback Controversy
http://alabama.theinsiders.com/2/251424.html No Quarterback Controversy By Kirk McNair Date: Apr 13, 2004 Brodie Croyle is Alabamas starting quarterback. Right now. There is no quarterback controversy. But no one has a job locked up. Brodie is our starter, but he has to continue to earn it, Alabama Head Coach Mike Shula said Tuesday. And I expect him to do that. [...] kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Sweet Home Alabama' not as sweet as it used to be
http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/04/09/40765a2f45068 'Sweet Home Alabama' not as sweet as it used to be It Makes Sense to Me By Craig S. Wysock Assistant Sports Editor April 09, 2004 When I was a little kid, I used to always make my parents turn the radio up when Sweet Home Alabama started to climb through the speakers. I even cranked the chords up myself when I got old enough to manage my own sound machine. But now, after experiencing four years of life (i.e. athletics) at the University as a fan and a sports reporter, I'm stepping outside the Bama box and saying it's time to turn Lynyrd Skynyrd's ode to Sweet Alabamy down a few notches. By no means am I cracking on the band -- far from that, actually. I've got three Skynyrd albums, and The Ballad of Curtis Loew is one of my favorite songs on one of my favorite albums (Second Helping). And I've always liked Southern rock. Hell, I've seen Skynyrd four or five times live. But I digress... Who in his right mind can say that after hearing a song thousands of times, round 1,580 evokes the same sort of emotion as the first few times the music danced into his ears? And by that same token, who can actually say his senses are stirred with the same gusto every time he experiences a particular sight, smell, taste, sound or feeling? The basic message I'm trying to convey is that things, over time, lose their luster. The excitement surrounding a particular stimulus fades. Opinions change as age and experiences increase. And as I've gotten older and experienced four of the most tumultuous years in Crimson Tide sporting history, an innocent bystander might think I'm bitter. No, I'm not bitter, but it's something awfully close. I don't hate the song. But I really, really strongly dislike it. Am I blaming the song for all the losses I've had to endure? No. Just like I wouldn't give it credit for all the wins. However, Sweet Home has gone from a tune that evoked some sort of personal pride (I was born in Huntsville, and have lived in Alabama for all my 21 years), to one that reminds me of mediocrity. Skynyrd's anthem to the Heart of Dixie is chock-full of negative connotations for me now. It echoed throughout the stadium the afternoon Central Florida beat us on Homecoming a few years back... I still remember hearing 80,000 sets of teeth chattering as they tried to belt out the lyrics when Auburn shut us out in what could easily be tabbed the worst Iron Bowl in history... And the chorus' familiar twang added the frosting onto Sweet Home's cake for me last fall in two overtime tragedies against Arkansas and Tennessee. Funny thing, though, when I sit back and think about it: Even if the good had outweighed the bad, I'd still be tired of the song. If we would have won piles of national championships, been blessed with an army of All-Americans and never lost a game, I'd still want to throw a brick through the windows of Alabama Express (that gift shop next to Buffalo Phil's) when Sweet Home's turn came up on the store's soundtrack-like loop. Seriously, it's as if Sweet Home is haunting me. Limiting the abuse to only sporting events would be one thing, but I can't even go out on this campus without hearing it at least three times on any given party night. Whether I find myself at a frat gathering, any of the bars in town or a circle of friends with a keg in the middle, the odds of crossing paths with Tuscaloosa's favorite song are about as good as finding bourbon in Bryant-Denny Stadium come October. And yeah, I used to be on the Beam Diet. And yeah, I used to have a blast belting out Roll Tide Roll with the rest of the fan base during the chorus. The key being used to. In comparison, I remember a point in my life when shooting spitballs and popping a girl's bra straps were forms of entertainment, too. Times change. Anyway, I refuse to associate my anti-climatic sports memories with particular players or coaches. So, steering clear of the tangible, I'll drive this rant right into the intangible. I hate doing it, but Sweet Home Alabama has become my Tide sports scapegoat. Every time I hear it now, I think of what might have been. So all I'm really asking for is a quota. Instead of having to play the damned thing 20 times, is two or three too few to ask? Maybe that's what I get for investing so much into something I can't control. Who am I kidding, though? I'm a Neil Young fan. Craig S. Wysock is an assistant sports editor for The Crimson White. __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Thinking About Football
Jeff Todd wrote: Last year had better be the toughest season Shula ever has at BAMA. I firmly believe BAMA wins a minimum of 6 games this season and plays in one of the rinky-dink bowl games. Take a look at the schedule. BAMA might be bowl eligible before they play Tennessee. Last week the Tides season opening opponent's (T3H MIGHT UTAH STATE AGG33Z) O-line allowed 10 sacks during a scrimmage. Yesterday 11 sigh The MIGHT AGG33Z are so doomed. kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Ouch
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2u=/040410/483/sto80104101336e=12ncid=1756 kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
Re: [RollTideFan] Ouch
Ewer quite welcome! kurt Pat Smoot wrote: Thanks, Krut. This is a definitely I would die if I missed it photo. - Original Message - From: kurt rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: rtf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 12:01 PM Subject: [RollTideFan] Ouch http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2u=/040410/483/sto80104101336e=12ncid=1756 __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
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[RollTideFan] I really miss BAMA...
BOUNCEYBALL! D33R Lowered that was one more fun run! kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Hey Rick!!
http://www.rolltide.com/livestats/soccer/construction/040604/index.htm kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Fulmer sued
http://www.al.com/sports/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/sports/1081502469157310.xml Cottrell case spawns suit against Vols' Fulmer 04/09/04 MIKE PERRIN News staff writer TUSCALOOSA - In what an attorney called a spinoff from the Ronnie Cottrell-Ivy Williams lawsuit against the NCAA, a libel suit was filed Thursday in Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court against Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer, the NCAA and others. Attorneys Thomas Gallion and Delaine Mountain filed the lawsuit on behalf of former Alabama football prospect and University of Tennessee player Kenny Smith, his father, Kenneth W. Smith, and his mother, Vicki Smith Dagnan. Among other things, the eight-count suit alleges libel, slander and invasion of privacy. The suit seeks $40 million in damages and names Fulmer, the NCAA, the American Football Coaches Association, NCAA investigator Richard Johanningmeier, NCAA spokesman Wallace Renfro, NCAA President Myles Brand and free-lance recruiting analyst Tom Culpepper as defendants. Culpepper, the NCAA and Johanningmeier are also defendants in the Cottrell-Williams suit. This is a spinoff of the other suit, Mountain said. They are separate lawsuits with separate clients. In the Cottrell suit, Gallion said Thursday that negotiations with defendants Gene Marsh and Marie Robbins could soon result in those University of Alabama employees being dropped from the case. It could all blow up, but that's where it appears to be going, he said. The defamation alleged in the Smith-Dagnan suit - Dagnan is Kenneth W. Smith's ex-wife - comes from statements made by Fulmer as a confidential witness in the NCAA's investigation of Alabama's football program. Fulmer's statements were released as part of the NCAA documents from disassociated Alabama booster Logan Young's criminal case in Memphis. The suit claims that in an interview with Johanningmeier, Fulmer in effect, allege(s) that plaintiff Vicki Smith Dagnan engaged in an extra-marital affair with an assistant University of Alabama football coach. The suit says Renfro, acting on behalf of Brand and the NCAA, invaded the privacy of plaintiff Kenny Smith by publicly releasing information about his academic records at the University of Tennessee on a national television broadcast on ESPN. It also accuses Renfro of making false statements about the younger Smith on ESPN's Outside the Lines when he said the NCAA actually talked to a number of people at Tennessee. Kenny Smith Jr. actually refused to talk with the NCAA. Smith said he was never contacted by the NCAA and never refused to be interviewed. Fulmer and the American Football Coaches Association filed for a declaratory judgment against the Smiths in Knoxville after Fulmer received a request from Mountain for a retraction of the statement about Dagnan. That lawsuit claims that any confidential statements made in the course of an NCAA investigation should have the same protection that witnesses in legal proceedings have. The Smith-Dagnan suit also asks for a court order to stop the Knoxville lawsuit. __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
[RollTideFan] Beard up and running
http://tennessean.com/sports/titans/archives/04/04/49603356.shtml?Element_ID=49603356 Friday, 04/09/04 Beard up and running By JIM WYATT Staff Writer As a football star at Pearl-Cohn High School in the late 1990s, Santonio Beard tasted success and everything that went with it. The Firebirds won championships. Beard won awards. He had more friends than time. With a name as unique as his ability, he was as close to a household name in Nashville as a high school athlete has ever been. He seemed on the fast track to bigger, better things. But as Beard sat in his apartment with tears streaming down his face last April, he felt 100 years removed from his glory days at Pearl-Cohn and the University of Alabama. His life had changed, and it was about to change even more. A failed drug test had put a question mark next to his name leading up to the 2003 NFL draft, but Beard still didn't give up hope of being selected. After all 262 picks, however, his name had not been called. He cried for an hour. ''Then the next day I hit rock bottom,'' Beard said. ''I wasn't going to actually do it, but I contemplated wiping myself out. When you have something you've worked for your entire life taken away from you, it makes you question some things. It seemed like the world was coming to an end for me. And I knew it was all my fault because I did something really stupid.'' Things got worse before they got better. For weeks, Beard had trouble forgiving himself. He said many friends and even some relatives suddenly viewed him as a failure and ''went away.'' He shut out those closest to him and became deeply depressed. He moved out of his Rivergate apartment because every time he walked in the door it took him back to draft day. ''He shut down from me and everyone he didn't want to talk to anybody,'' said his mother, Joan Beard. ''Something like that either makes you or breaks you. Was he going to be a man or a boy?'' Eventually, Beard realized he was the only one who could revive himself. Less than a year later, he's back to his old self upbeat, confident and talking about becoming a starting running back in the NFL. On Monday, Beard reported for the first day of offseason workouts with the Denver Broncos. Making the Broncos won't be easy Denver has two other proven running backs on its roster but Beard finally has the big shot he hoped for. He said he's not about to let it slip away this time. A regrettable decision Beard said if he'd known how things would turn out at Alabama, he probably never would have left school after his junior season to enter the draft. But when Alabama hired Coach Mike Price, the writing was on the wall for Beard. Price loved the passing game. Beard, of course, wanted to run. Beard examined the list of draft-eligible running backs, decided it wasn't an especially deep class and made himself eligible. Price was eventually fired amid scandal, and was replaced by ground-game loving Mike Shula. ''If I had known that was going to happen, I probably would have stayed in school,'' Beard said. ''Some people said I got bad advice and came out, but that was all me.'' The biggest mistake of Beard's young life was yet to come. Less than a month before the NFL combine, where top prospects are invited to workout and meet with NFL teams, Beard was in Atlanta working out with a friend. They were also having a good time, including smoking marijuana. Not long after he arrived at the combine in Indianapolis, Beard realized he would have to pay for his poor judgment and this time for some bad advice. ''I didn't even know I was going to take a drug test. I had no idea. I am not blaming anyone but myself, but a guy I was working out with in Nashville told me that I wasn't going to have to take one,'' Beard said. ''I knew I wasn't going to pass it. I knew I had smoked and there wasn't enough time for it to get out of my system. I knew right then and there I was going to fail it.'' A few weeks later, a letter from the NFL confirmed his fears. His buddy in Atlanta, another draft hopeful, got a similar letter. Beard began to brace for the worst. Downward spiral Before the combine, Beard thought he might be drafted somewhere in the first three rounds. After the drug test, he still believed he'd be selected around the sixth round. At Alabama Beard rushed 678 yards as a sophomore and 811 yards as a junior. Despite splitting snaps with other running backs he had provided flashes of brilliance for the Crimson Tide, including a five-touchdown game against Ole Miss and a 199-yard outing against Auburn. But it was all for naught in the eyes of NFL teams, who were more concerned about his drug test and a DUI arrest in 2001. He was also deserted by some of those who earlier had cheered him on. ''He had some fair-weathered friends,'' said his aunt, Helen Beard. ''He had some friends that wanted a piece of him when he was in the limelight, but when his
[RollTideFan] Braves announcers
Iyam having brane lock. During the 80's the Braves had Skip Caray, Pete Professor van Weiren, Ernie Johnson and somebunny else. Who? kurt __ RollTideFan - The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List Welcome to RollTideFan! Wear a cup! To join or leave the list or to make changes to your subscription visit http://listinfo.rolltidefan.net
