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TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- The wait for JaMychal Green and Tony Mitchell never ended Thursday night. Green, the 2008 Alabama "Mr. Basketball" winner who logged four productive seasons with the Crimson Tide, and Mitchell, the athletically gifted forward who was suspended for the entire second half of last season, went unselected in the Thursday's 2012 NBA Draft.

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- The Physical Properties Committee of the University of Alabama System trustees unanimously recommended the construction of the $2.8 million "Champions Plaza" at its meetings today at the Bryant Conference Center. The plaza, which would be located next to Sewell-Thomas Stadium, will provide recognition for the University's athletic programs and also tiered seating for 600 next to the stadium.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The University of Alabama will ask its Board of Trustees to expand the initially approved budget for renovations to Sam Bailey Track Stadium at this week's summer meetings. According to documents obtained by the al.com Tuscaloosa bureau, Alabama will request nearly $800,000 worth of revisions to the budget, increasing the figure from $3.45 million to $4,215,108.

Amanda Locke's struggles reached a low point during last week's NCAA Super Regionals. With runners on base and Locke due to bat, coach Patrick Murphy called her back to the dugout and sent a pinch-hitter to the plate. On Friday, the fifth-year senior wiped away those bad memories with the most important home run of her Alabama career.

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Days before they took the field for the 2008 Women's College World Series, a somber group of Alabama players gathered together one last time to say goodbye to a few of their closest friends. By the conclusion of the impromptu "burial," all of their cell phones were in the hands of coach Patrick Murphy.

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Barrett Jones' name certainly carries some major clout in the college football world. The consensus All-American has earned it, of course. That probably explains why he was one of a number of players from across the country named today to the Rimington Award Watch List.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Kendall Dawson has been behind the plate for nearly all of Jackie Traina's pitches this season. Her perspective is unique and, as Alabama's senior catcher, clearly respected. What Dawson saw Sunday from Traina wasn't the SEC Pitcher of the Year's "A game."

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- South Alabama certainly had plenty of opportunities Friday to score its first NCAA regional victory in program history. It just needed the pressure of its final at-bats to cash in one in the biggest of ways.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala -- A season opener at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta? Make it a double for Alabama. The Crimson Tide will face West Virginia for the first time in program history when it opens the 2014 season against the Mountaineers in the Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Alabama received the 2012 NCAA softball tournament's No. 2 overall seed Sunday, guaranteeing the Crimson Tide two consecutive weekends at Rhoads Stadium on its path to the Women's College World Series. Of course, the Crimson Tide (50-7) has to win both this weekend's Regional and the following weekend's Super Regional to go back to Oklahoma City for the fourth time in five years.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Alabama remembers its games earlier in the season against Georgia Tech and South Alabama -- two of the three teams that will be in town for this weekend's NCAA Regionals -- but it wasn't because the Crimson Tide came away winners in both contests.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Patrick Murphy was still drenched from the Gatorade bath he received after Alabama's 10-1 SEC tournament championship victory when he sat down behind the microphones inside the Rhoads Stadium press box. By his side were a couple of the ringleaders behind the decision to douse the Alabama softball coach during his interview with ESPN's Holly Rowe.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Patrick Murphy's decision was made easier when he heard Jackie Traina utter the two words that rarely come out of her mouth on the day of a big game. "I'm sore." The Alabama softball coach never planned to start his ace, but Murphy figured he might have to use Traina at some point during Saturday's SEC tournament championship game against Florida.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The SEC regular season title is all Alabama's. The No. 3 Crimson Tide made sure it wouldn't have to share its third consecutive title with Florida or Tennessee with Sunday's 5-3 victory against the No. 7 Gators at Rhoads Stadium.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Alabama ran out of innings to figure out Florida's Hannah Rogers on Friday night. Now, the No. 3 Crimson Tide has one less chance to claim a share of its third consecutive SEC title.