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THE BOARD: UAB Football
Alex Mortensen's first full recruiting class is taking shape. A Georgia State flip, a safety with 25 offers and three offensive linemen.
The Long Game: Jegil Dugger goes from UAB backfields to entrepreneur boardrooms
Former UAB star and tech-company founder is a featured speaker at Birmingham’s Sloss Tech convention.
Lord Lendeborg: Claim Him, Blazer Nation. He Earned It.
Yaxel Lendeborg went No. 11 to the Warriors on Tuesday night. Every graphic said Michigan. He's still a Blazer.
John Paul Head is coming back. So is almost everyone else.
UAB announced 19 returning players from a record-setting 2026 season. The Blazers lost one player to the portal. In this era, that qualifies as a statement.
UAB Signed 41 Transfers in January. The High School Pipeline Is What Comes Next.
Alex Mortensen’s portal class was a bridge. Camp season and a recruiting board stretching to 2030 show what he’s building.
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Back When: John Whitcomb Wrote the Standard
Before there was Hackney or Webb or Zeno, there was No. 14.
Back When: The day the people brought UAB football back from the dead
One hundred and eighty-one days after UAB football was declared dead, the people brought it back.
The A-Train's last stop
From walk-on to all-conference center, Adam Lepkowski enters his final season at UAB
Ryder Burton Has the Swagger. Now He Needs the Stage.
After three schools in three years, UAB’s redshirt junior quarterback upset No. 22 Memphis the first time he started a college football game. Now he’s finally the guy — and the people around him believe it.
Your Best Player Just Left. His Contract Says He Owes You. Good Luck Collecting.
NIL buyout clauses may be the only retention tool Group of 6 programs have against the transfer portal. No court has ruled on the merits.
Alabama has four G6 football programs. It's time they acted like it.
THE BOARD: UAB Basketball
Andy Kennedy rebuilds the roster — again. The Portal King adds 12 players in a month.
Alex Mortensen knows the job is hard. He wants UAB fans to know he’s not running from it.
The first-year UAB head coach gave his most detailed interview yet. Here’s what stood out for Blazer fans.
76 teams, same problem: NCAA tournament expansion won’t help the G6
Kevin Scarbinsky breaks down why the eight new at-large spots will go to 17-and-16 Auburns, not UABs.
The diehard fan, the Bones and the 911 call
A UAB super fan built a basketball version of the Battle for the Bones trophy, gave it to Penny Hardaway and threatened to call 911 when Memphis wouldn’t give it back.
The best rivalries in the Group of 6 — and the ones that should be
The UAB-Memphis beef over a JUCO big man got us thinking. What are the best G6 rivalries? And does the G6 have enough hate to sustain them?
They saved the program. Now they're being asked to save it again.
NIL donor fatigue is real at the Group of 6 level. The communities that built these programs are being asked to fund a system that wasn't designed for them.
Alex Mortensen is recruiting Birmingham
The first-year UAB coach is embedding himself in the city, rebuilding recruiting relationships and leaning on nine years with Nick Saban to restore the Blazers.
The war never stopped
The current climate feels existential for the G6. But this class war has been raging since the first TV camera pointed at a football field — and I’ve been covering it for three decades.
The G6 Diehard Podcast is coming
College sports through the lens of the Group of 6 — hosted by Tim Stephens
Roderick Robinson II is ready to be the guy at UAB
The former Georgia four-star spent three years learning behind one of the best defenses in the country. Now he’s bringing that education to a UAB backfield his coaches say could be the best in the American.
From Day 1, launching to something greater has been in UAB’s DNA
The 1989 UAB Club Football team went 0-6 and didn’t officially exist. It launched a program — and a whole lot more.
Back When: Bryan Thomas takes UAB to the Big Apple
A Birmingham kid who turned a pee-wee football beating into a Hall of Fame-caliber college career — and gave UAB its first real claim to legitimacy
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