For the four SEC programs that spent the postseason at home, largely soft non-conference schedules could provide the boost that sends them bowling this year.
Former Alabama and NFL fullback Kevin Turner served as a panelist at a legislative briefing on the long-term consequences of sports-related brain injuries and concussions for the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging and the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force. Turner said only a few words on Wednesday in Washington - not because he didn't have plenty he wanted to say, but because the disease that's taking his life bit by bit makes it hard for him to be understood.
Buffalo Bills defensive tackle Marcell Dareus should soon be enrolled in a pretrial intervention program that could lead to the dismissal of charges against him from a May 5 traffic stop, his lawyer said.
This week on the Alabama Podcast, AL.com Tuscaloosa Bureau reporter Ben Flanagan and I discuss Steve Spurrier's recent comments about Nick Saban's career at Alabama, the latest on Alabama's season opening matchup with West Virginia, and the Crimson Tide's recent team viewing of Transformers: Age of Extinction.