Crimson Tide Roll Call: May 21, 2021

Your daily briefing on what's going on with Alabama athletics, including full TV listings

Today is ... National Memo Day

Today's Crimson Tide schedule

Women's Golf: Alabama at NCAA Championships, Scottsdale, AZ., All Day

Baseball: Alabama vs Mississippi State, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 6 p.m. CT, Watch/Listen/Live Stats

Softball: Alabama vs Alabama State, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 5 p.m. CT, SEC Network, Watch/Listen/Live Stats

Crimson Tide results

Baseball: Mississippi State 4, Alabama 2

BamaCentral Headlines ...

• The Extra Point: Derrick Henry's 2020 Season More Than Worthy of a King
• Alabama Baseball Falters Late Against No. 6 Mississippi State, 4-2
• Talk of the Tide: 2020-2021 a Banner Year for Alabama Athletics All Around 
• Alabama Men's Basketball Set to Participate at 2021 ESPN Events Invitational 
• Alabama Walk-On WR Joshua Lanier Enters NCAA Transfer Portal
• Throwback Crimson Tikes: Hey Baby, Oh Baby

Did you notice?

• Named after legendary track & field coach and Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman, The Bowerman award represents the highest individual accolade in college track & field. The Crimson Tide has three members in the running for it.

Make that three for Alabama on The Bowerman watch list coming out of the conference championships with Robert Dunning making the men’s list!#BamaHurdles #RollTide pic.twitter.com/r0DEmJ5fgk

— Alabama Track & Field (@AlabamaTrack) May 20, 2021

• As expected with its great season, Alabama softball had eight players pick up individual accolades following the Crimson Tide capturing a conference-record sixth SEC Championship.

A program-record 8⃣ Alabama Softball players earned NFCA All-South Region honors, tied for the most of any team this season#Team25 #RollTide pic.twitter.com/4OfxHmvBLO

— Alabama Softball (@AlabamaSB) May 20, 2021

• Here's another (un)surprising Alabama softball statistic as the Crimson Tide nears the NCAA Regionals:

Most-followed NCAA softball programs on official social media accounts (IG+TW+FB) in May 2021. https://t.co/VIP8mcG37G pic.twitter.com/QDuqnfZyJ7

— SkullSparks (@SkullSparks) May 20, 2021

Countdown to the Crimson Tide's 2021 opener: 

106 days

On this date in Crimson Tide history:

May 21, 1960: Former Alabama two-sport star Charley Boswell was featured on the NBC Show “This is Your Life” hosted by Ralph Edwards. Among those on hand to help Boswell remember his moments growing up in Ensley, his athletic days at Alabama and his World War II hero days, were famous entertainer Bob Hope. The once Crimson Tide halfback and baseball player was blinded by a German artillery shell that exploded after he pulled a crew member from a tank during World War II. Boswell, who subsequently took up golf and won 28 national and international titles for blind golfers, donated his money from the show to his favorite charity, "The Alabama Sight Conservation Association." — Bryant Museum

Crimson Tide quote of the day:

"I've often said that it took a lot of courage to go back into that tank and get that soldier. But all of the things he did after losing his sight, they took real courage." — Alston Callahan, development director at the Eye Foundation Hospital, about Charley Boswell in his New York Times obituary in 1995.

We'll leave you with this ...

#HoodieTua x #BeardedTua https://t.co/8dlETTah8n pic.twitter.com/lrlF9WhJ0e

— Josh Tolentino (@JCTSports) May 20, 2021