When Bob Jones High School’s Candice Storey signed a basketball scholarship with Vanderbilt University, she figured to move on from Nashville once her eligibility was exhausted and her degree was secured. After all, relocating was a way of life in a military family. She attended 12 schools before entering the ninth grade at Bob Jones. […]
USTA Girls’ 16 National Clay Court Championships to be held July 11-18
An iconic Texas hamburger eatery is spreading out in north Alabama as part of a recent expansion push, largely into the Southeast. Whataburger, which opened a restaurant May 10 on Beltline Road in Decatur, broke ground on construction of a store in South Huntsville about a week later and plans to start building in Madison […]
Paul Barjon sank an eagle putt on the second playoff hole to win the inaugural Huntsville Championship on the PGA’s Korn Ferry Tour at The Ledges. He celebrated by sinking a Rocket Republic Six-Iron, the official beer of the tournament. Turns out Barjon wasn’t the only winner that weekend. The Huntsville Championship pledged to give […]
The newest hotel in downtown Huntsville was designed with two things in mind: to build the city’s first luxury boutique hotel while not losing what media representative Jessica Newton called the “spirit of the community.’’ The 115-room hotel 106 Jefferson, which is part of the Curio Collection by Hilton, is merging the city’s high-tech profile […]
The Rocket City is quickly becoming the City of Champions and that means economic dollars for the area. Fourteen sports events over a three-month period generated an unprecedented economic flow into the city and area, based on calculations by Destinations International. Sports tourism for the Huntsville area produced more than $10.3 million in that span, […]
MADISON — The transition of the minor league Mobile BayBears to Madison was on a seamless track last year. Opening day for the return of professional baseball to the Tennessee Valley was not far off, and the renamed Rocket City Trash Pandas were ready to open their inaugural season at a brand new Toyota Field. […]
Host cities and venues generally have a year to prepare for the Southeastern Conference Gymnastics Championships. This year, the Von Braun Center had barely two months to prepare for the event after it was pulled from New Orleans because that city was deemed a COVID-19 hot spot. Alabama won the title with a late surge […]
Mack among the field in Korn Ferry Tour’s inaugural Huntsville Championship this week at The Ledges.
The outfield fences are down and earth is being moved as the city has started the renovation of Joe Davis Stadium from primarily a baseball park to a multi-use venue. If construction isn’t delayed, the former site of the Double-A baseball Huntsville Stars will once again host high school football, that is if school administrators […]
