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SEC media days: LSU, South Carolina, Ole Miss QBs in spotlight
Access WDUN - Georgia
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ATLANTA — The opening day of SEC football media days Monday featured LSU, South Carolina, Ole Miss and Vanderbilt. The Commodores have Diego Pavia at quarterback going into his second season and the other three also have signal-callers entering...
Cleveland Browns look to the future as Kevin Stefanski faces pressure and Shedeur Sanders impresses
MARCA
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July 21, 2025
The Cleveland Browns are heading into a defining 2025 season, with head coach Kevin Stefanski walking a fine line between redemption and replacement. After three losing records in five years-despite two Coach of the Year honors-Stefanski is firmly...
CFB Fans Mock Clark Lea Over Playoff Comment at SEC Media Days
Essentially Sports
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July 15, 2025
Clark Lea has big expectations for Vanderbilt Commodores in 2025. So big that people are calling him downright crazy. Lea doesn’t care about Vandy’s lack of historical success on the gridiron because he believes in the program he’s methodically...
These 11 Alabama cities are the definition of ‘eccentric,’ in a good way
AL.com - Alabama
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July 15, 2025
As someone who has visited every county and most cities in Alabama, I can tell you our state has a love of quirkiness that rivals that of any other. I enjoy nothing better than seeking out things like World’s Largest Business Shirt (Andalusia,...
Local art show ‘Spilled Fruit’ promotes visibility for queer Texan artists
The Daily Texan
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July 15, 2025
Amid a recent surge in anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Texas, including Senate Bill 12, Senate Bill 1188 and Senate Bill 1257, a local art show resists conformity through a celebration of unapologetic queer expression. Curated by local photographer...
Return of the GOAT?: Down in Alabama
AL.com - Alabama
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July 15, 2025
Release the footage Homewood Mayor Alex Wyatt continues to call on the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency to allow the family of Jabari Peoples to view body camera footage from the June 23 fatal shooting. Peoples, 19, was a 2024 graduate of Aliceville...
Country music star, 28, reveals ‘very scary heart condition,’ family health issues
AL.com - Alabama
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July 15, 2025
Ashley Cooke’s career has been on the rise, but the country music star has dealt with a serious health issue in the process. In a TikTok video, she explains she has recently been diagnosed with a heart condition, in addition to her family health...
Country music stars highlight ESPN’s release of SEC on ABC anthem
AL.com - Alabama
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July 14, 2025
The SEC will have a new sound in 2025, thanks to Bailey Zimmerman and Luke Combs. The two country music stars lend their vocals to the SEC on ANC anthem, ‘Backup Plan’, a song they released in May. On Monday, during the first day of SEC Media...
National Shrimp Festival to re-select poster art after finding similar design from different artist
Gulf Coast Media - Alabama
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The Annual National Shrimp Festival committee is rescinding its 2025 poster and will select a new one after it found the originally selected art is “similar in design to a poster from an event in another state in 2024.” Though the decision to...
Which player with Alabama football roots has started the most NFL regular-season games?
AL.com - Alabama
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July 15, 2025
Cornerback Kareem Jackson is tied for sixth among players from Alabama high schools or colleges in NFL regular-season games started. But he didn’t start any in 2024, when he played in only two games off the Buffalo Bills’ practice squad. With NFL...
Tropical depression may form in Gulf this week: What can Alabama expect?
AL.com - Alabama
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July 15, 2025
The National Hurricane Center thinks a tropical depression could form in the Gulf in a few days. Forecasters continued to track an area of low pressure that was in the western Atlantic Ocean just east of the Florida peninsula on Tuesday. It is...
2025 SEC Media Days underway in Atlanta
WYMT - Kentucky
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July 14, 2025
ATLANTA (WYMT) - The 2025 SEC Media Days got underway at the Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial on Monday. The event will run through Thursday. Mark Stoops and some members with the Kentucky Football team will take the podium at approximately 10:50...
Art on the Rocks combine with Wine Festival
Gadsden Messenger - Alabama
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July 11, 2025
Art on the Rock attendees can taste wine from all across Alabama during September’s event as the Alabama Wine Festival finds a new home. Gadsden Area Tourism has partnered with Noccalula Falls to merge the two events on Saturday Sept. 20. This...
SEC Media Days Report: Commissioner remembers the late Bob Holt
Whole Hog Sports - Arkansas
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July 15, 2025
ATLANTA — The SEC honored longtime Arkansas Democrat-Gazette sportswriter Bob Holt at SEC Media Days, and league commissioner Greg Sankey paid tribute to him during his opening remarks Monday. Conference officials put up a placard with Holt’s...
Taylor, Wydner and Magloire to rep UWG at Media Day
Times-Georgian
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The world of United Athletic Conference football will descend on Nashville, Tenn. this week for Media Day, held at the BetMGM Sports Lounge inside Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, July 16. UWG will be represented by head coach Joel Taylor,...
SEC media days: LSU, South Carolina, Ole Miss quarterbacks in spotlight
Associated Press
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July 14, 2025
ATLANTA (AP) — The opening day of SEC football media days Monday featured LSU, South Carolina, Ole Miss and Vanderbilt. The Commodores have Diego Pavia at quarterback going into his second season and the other three also have signal-callers...
MLB teams draft 36 prospects with Alabama baseball roots on Monday
AL.com - Alabama
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July 15, 2025
Former Chilton County High School standout Pico Kohn went to the New York Yankees in the fourth round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft on Monday, and before the 2025 event concluded, another 35 prospects who played at Alabama...
Montevallo Music Camp strikes a chord with young musicians in 19th year
The Shelby County Reporter - Alabama
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July 14, 2025
Published 3:50 pm Monday, July 14, 2025 By DAVE DOMESCIK | Staff Writer MONTEVALLO – Every summer for nearly two decades, the University of Montevallo has transformed into a musical haven for middle and high school students eager to sharpen their...
Diego Pavia on why Vanderbilt beat Alabama: ‘We were the more prepared team’
AL.com - Alabama
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July 14, 2025
Diego Pavia was more subdued than usual. The Vanderbilt quarterback has a habit of getting excited and dropping profanity in interviews, including after he and his Commodore teammates beat then-No. 1 Alabama football in October. By the time he...
Here’s how this Alabama company is helping Texas flood relief efforts
AL.com - Alabama
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July 14, 2025
An Alabama company is pausing production at one of its plants in order to help with disaster relief efforts in Texas. Milo’s Tea Company, which is headquartered in Bessemer, Alabama, recently announced it has paused production of tea and lemonade...