Category Archives: Sports

The Classic’s this weekend!

Posted on October 26, 2007 | Leave a comment

Now, considering that most of you have already seen the billboards, the commercials, and have already planned which parties you’re going to attend (both tonight and tomorrow), there’s not much more to say about Birmingham’s biggest sports event of the year.

The Magic City Classic kicks off tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at historic Legion Field. The parade will begin downtown at 9 a.m. taking this route to the field with Sinbad serving as Grand Marshal. One thing that folks need to be aware of for this year’s game is the new park-n-ride system that’s been set up to make it easier to get to and from the game. Follow the jump to see specific information about traffic and parking for the event. Don’t forget to visit our friends over at Urbanham.com as they are an official media sponsor of this year’s event.

You may also want to consider submitting your pics from The Classic to The Rumble. You can always send them in via email: photos@bhamterminal.com.

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Kickball rematch set for November 3

Posted on October 25, 2007 | Leave a comment

Photo courtesy: Birmingham Kickball

Apparently it’s time for rematch season as the Birmingham Kickball All-Stars have announced that they will be playing a rematch against The Tragic City Rollers.

The game is set to take place on Saturday, November 3 at Avondale Park beginning at 3 p.m. The teams have also announced the charities that they will be playing for; the All-Stars will be playing for the Greater Birmingham Humane Society while the Rollers will be playing for Rape Response, a service of the Crisis Center of Birmingham.

Of course, for a taste of what playing the game is all about, check out this video celebrating the first year of Birmingham Kickball’s existence:

Kickball Promo #2

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UPDATED New uniforms for the Barons

Posted on October 24, 2007 | Leave a comment

If you own anything with the current Birmingham Barons logo, you better hold onto it. The team is holding a press conference today where they will be unveiling a new team logo and uniform for the 2008 season. The Birmingham Business Journal has more information about the unveiling and we will attempt to get information from the team later today.

A quick scan of the MILB.com and MLB.com online shops show that Barons merchandise has already been removed in anticipation of the announcement. But you still have a chance to grab some stuff from the official team online store (at least until it’s gone).

UPDATED: 1:18:58 p.m., The new logos can be seen after the jump.

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UPDATED Travelogue: Go to the Classic Parade, get ice cream?

Posted on October 15, 2007 | Leave a comment

It’s a pretty good deal if you ask me. The folks at Mayfield Ice Cream ~~had spelt~~ spell it out in this blog post on their website ~~(currently cached by Google)~~. They figured that since you can’t throw candy from the floats during the annual Magic City Classic parade, the next best thing would be to hand out free 4 oz. cups of vanilla ice cream.

~~The weird thing is that a current search of the company’s new blog shows no sign of this post existing~~. NOTE: Here is the link to the new version of the post, made at 3:43 p.m. local time on October 15. The post ~~has also shown~~ shows a lot of love to the Magic City Classic itself, scheduled to take place next week Saturday, October 27 at historic Legion Field between Alabama A&M and Alabama State.

For those not familiar with the Magic City Classic… well, you’ve just got to see it for yourselves, an experience that can’t be missed. Click here to view their offficial site and here to find out where you need to be standing ~~if they do in fact go ahead with~~ for the free ice cream ~~plan~~.

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From none to two professional teams?

Posted on October 12, 2007 | 4 comments

One of the many arguments against the construction of a new facility (or dome) that could host football games is the fact that while metro Birmingham is home to the Birmingham Barons, it does not currently field a professional major league team. It appears that there’s a chance for that to be rectified that as early as this spring as two startup professional football leagues consider making the Magic City one of their first homes.

UFL logo We’ve already written about the All-American Football League and the tryouts held at Legion Field this summer. Well now the city has recently been mentioned as a possible franchise site for the new United Football League being founded by Bill Hambrecht, a former minority partner in the Oakland Invaders of the USFL, and Tim Armstrong, a senior executive at Google. The league would begin play in August 2008 with eight teams holding games on Friday nights. And you can help decide if we get the team.

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It’s not a third-world country. It’s Talladega.

Posted on October 12, 2007 | Leave a comment

The big story making the Internet rounds now implies that some folks up in Washington consider NASCAR fans a health risk. Congressional staffers sent to Talladega Superspeedway last weekend and again to Lowe’s Motor Speedway this weekend were encouraged to catch up on their vaccinations for hep A and B, flu, diphtheria and tetanus before the fact-finding trip. Seems the guys from the Homeland Security Commission where at the race to study mass gatherings. Well, they also toured some local health facilities and claim that is the reason for the shots but that doesn’t make for good jokes and controversy.

You may think this story is completely without merit but there are some health risks from being around NASCAR fans. For example, we suggest you find out who the person’s favorite driver is before you make an offhand comment about Jeff Gordon or Jimmie Johnson. It could be consider fightin’ words. And never ever make fun of Dale Earnhardt or Litte E anywhere on the grounds of Talladega. Trust us.

There’s lots of places to read more about this, but we like this post on Autoblog.com. To be honest, we’ve got friends there.

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