A leader with more than 25 years of experience in athletic administration, including nearly 12 years working at the NCAA Division II level, Jim Herlihy has been named the new Director of Athletics at Auburn University at Montgomery, Chancellor Dr. John G. Veres III announced Thursday.
Montgomery police have made an arrest in a man’s shooting death.
MONTGOMERY – Alabama State University head football coach Brian Jenkins held his weekly press conference today (Wednesday) and most of the questions from the local media were in connection with the announcement earlier in the day of the ASU-Tuskegee football game beginning play again in 2017.
Sports Director Mo Carter and Sports Analyst John Longshore shared their thoughts on the Auburn Tigers, Alabama Quarterback battle and the AP Preseason Top 25 Poll
Alabama State University and Tuskegee University have renewed their football rivalry in a four-year contract announced Wednesday by both universities. The Hornets and Tigers will face each other on Sept. 2, 2017, in the season opener for both teams. The teams last played in the opening of ASU Stadium before a sellout crowd on Nov. 22, 2012, in the 89th Turkey Day Classic.
Former Troy Trojan Osi Umenyiora walked away from the game officially Wednesday, but not without one last offer from an NFL team. Umenyiora, 33, did not name the club, but said he turned it down because it wasn’t an offer from the Giants — the only team he wanted to close his career with.
Ted Dalton, Senior Vice President of Corporate Partnerships and Business Development of the Boston Celtics, and Dr. Marc Williams, spoke to students at Alabama State University Wednesday night. It was the 2nd Annual ASU Speaker Series entitled “Advice from the Pros.”
AUBURN, Ala. ― Gus Malzahn says Auburn’s practices have been physical this preseason, and he’s just fine with that.
“We’re a little banged up, but it’s a good banged up,” Malzahn said after Tuesday’s practice. “I think we’ll be fresh and ready to go and should have all hands on deck, at least at this point, going into the opener.”
President Obama has released a statement on the death of civil rights pioneer Amelia Boynton Robinson, who died at 104.
Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who nearly died while helping lead the 1965 Selma march on “Bloody Sunday,” championed voting rights for blacks and was the first black woman to run for Congress in Alabama, has died. She was 104.
