Alabama Spring Football 2013: Mid-Spring Outlook

The Alabama football team has finished two weeks of spring training, interrupted by spring break, and the first of three spring scrimmages is in the books. Can we learn anything about the position battles that are going on from spring training news?

Alabama Football 2013: Spring Practice Offense Updates

There's good news from spring training: the team has practiced in pads four straight times, and there are still no new players in black no-contact jerseys. Past that? There's not a lot to report, at least on the defensive side of things.

Back To Work: Alabama Spring Practices #5 & #6

Six practices down. Nine to go. First scrimmage is scheduled for Saturday.

Nick Saban Press Conference 3/20/13

Crimson Tide Football: Anthony Steen

Anthony Steen is a rising Senior and one of two returning starters from Bama's vaunted '12 Offensive Line. Here we review three games from Steen's 2012 season to see if we can find a clue about what to expect in 2013.

Alabama Football Spring Practice #2: Offense

For most of the Crimson Tide, the bumps and bruises have healed and it's time to gear up for a new year. Many familiar faces have moved on and have been replaced by new faces. Position openings on the offensive line, tight end, and H-back should prove for an interesting spring.

Spring Football Practice Update: Defense

Much of the news made in Alabama's first two spring practices was made in the defensive backfield, where there is actually quite a bit to report. Several new guys are working back there, while a potential starter is sidelined by injury.

Alabama Football 1st Spring Practice Quick Hitters

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*Update* 2013 Alabama Football Spring Practice Schedule

The Crimson Tide return to the practice field with the first of 15 practices.

Your Friday Hoodoo Thread │Bammer's Apology

Bammer's attempt to appease the Football Gods in hopes 'Bama makes it out of Spring Practice unscathed...

Alabama Spring Football Preview 2013: Quarterback

Alabama hasn't had a returning quarterback this celebrated since that guy with the checked hat and rolled-up program was the coach, and if January's BCS Championship Game is any sign of what to come, AJ McCarron is prepared to live up to the hype. But is Alabama one injury away from a mediocre offense?

Alabama Spring Football 2013 Preview: Receivers

Alabama was so stocked at wide receiver in 2012 that it absorbed three major injuries to players in the two-deep, plus a twisted ankle to star Amari Cooper, and barely even showed the effects. Well guess what. Not only is every important wideout coming back, but major new talent is arriving both there and at tight end/H-back. Stand by, boys, this could be good.

Alabama Spring Football 2013 Preview: Running Backs

Eddie Lacy was a steamrolling Tasmanian Devil of a running back who left Georgia weeping and Manti T'eo grasping for air. He has a very good chance to be the only running back selected in the first round of this year's NFL draft. Alabama will be hurting at running back without this elite back. Right? Heh heh heh.

Alabama Spring Football 2013 Preview: O-Line

Probably no other position grouping is as dependent on experience, including experience working together, as the offensive line--and Alabama's offensive line will be much less experienced in 2013 than it was in 2012. The Tide is loaded almost everywhere else, but whether the big handsomes in the trenches can actually spearhead another national championship run is a serious question.

Spring Look-Ahead: Defensive Backs

There are plenty of question marks in Alabama's secondary this year. Nick Saban's forte is said to be coaching defensive backs, and that is about to be put to the test: this year's results may have more to do with coaching, and less to do with talent and experience, than has been the case during at least the last four years.

Spring Look-Ahead: Linebackers

It's hard to take the balanced approach to writing about Alabama's 2013 linebackers. Face it, the Tide is flat-out loaded. If you are a Bama fan who appreciates good linebacker play--as if there were such a thing as a Bama fan who doesn't--stock up with popcorn before September.

Spring Look-Ahead: Defensive Line

Two of three defensive line starters, including the line's only all-SEC player, are gone. Sounds bad, right? Guess again. There's talent coming back, including experienced talent at every position, and Nick Saban just sewed up his best defensive line recruiting class at Alabama by a long distance. The real question may be whether Saban sticks with the three-mammoths system or goes speedier to juice the pass rush and combat the spread.

2013 Spring Look-Ahead: Special Teams

Roll 'Bama Roll kicks off its coverage of spring practice with a glance at Special Teams