Crimson Tide Roll Call: August 7, 2020
Your daily briefing on what’s going on with Alabama athletics
Today is ... Purple Heart Day
BamaCentral Headlines
- Paving the Way: Cecil Ingram and Alabama Golf Saw Success Long Before Justin Thomas
- Alabama Football Ranked No. 3 in Preseason Amway Coaches Poll
- Crimson Tikes: The Trinity
- Throwback Thursday: Alabama vs Notre Dame, 1973
- Alabama Crimson Tide Players in the NFL by Team
- Evaluating Alabama Commit, SI All-American Candidate 2021 S Kaine Williams
- Miami Dolphins DL Raekwon Davis Placed on COVID-19 Reserve List
- Safety, Not Money, Will Eventually Decide Fate of 2020 College Football Season
Did you notice?
- Three former Alabama golfers are competing in the PGA Championship this weekend. Bud Cauley finished 4-under par, one stroke off the lead, while Michael Thompson and Justin Thomas both shot 1-over par during the first round.
- JaMychal Green finished with 10 points, five rebounds, one assist, and one block in the Los Angeles Clippers' 126-111 win over the Dallas Mavericks.
- The new Sports Science Center on campus in Tuscaloosa keeps rolling out all of the new bells and whistles on social media. Check out how it is using virtual reality:
- Alabama soccer is back working out and getting ready for its new season set to start in September.
- So is the Crimson Tide volleyball team.
Countdown to the Crimson Tide's 2020 opener
50 days
On this date in Crimson Tide history:
August 7, 1963: Coach Paul W. “Bear” Bryant testified on behalf of Georgia coach Wally Butts in his lawsuit trial against Curtis Publishing Company, owners of the Saturday Evening Post. Bryant adamantly denied any collusion between him and Butts.
August 7, 1998: Jalen Hurts was born in Channelview, Texas.
Crimson Tide quote of the day
“My obligation to our team is to play the best players, so I don’t care what grade they’re in, where you’re from or what the mailing address is, that’s kind of what we do. If they’re better than someone else we’re going to give them every opportunity to play.” – Nick Saban
