Some Minor League Baseball teams essentially disbanded or drastically curtailed operations when the 2020 season was cancelled because of the pandemic. The Double-A Rocket City Trash Pandas, looking to play its inaugural season in shiny new Toyota Field and with a strong ownership group, wasn’t one of them. Instead of trimming payroll and turning out […]
Huntsville’s Derrick Gragg has returned to his professional roots as a collegiate administrator, leaving a senior position at the NCAA offices in Indianapolis to become the athletic director at Northwestern University. The two-sport Lee High School star and Vanderbilt University wide receiver has spent more than a quarter-century in athletic administration. Except for the most […]
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
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 city of Huntsville and its partners at Chapman-Sisson Architects continue progress on renovation designs for Joe Davis Stadium, the city posted on its website. Known to locals as “The Joe,” the planned transformation of the stadium will give the property new life and make much of it unrecognizable to those who drive by each […]
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 […]
MADISON — Toyota Field looked a bit like Mudville on Thursday as the long-awaited opening of the new Town Madison exit off I-565 struck out mightily in rain. Moving the celebration into the open-air Toyota Field concourse from the exit ramp, the Madison Chamber of Commerce, Madison Mayor Paul Finley, Madison County Commission Chair Dale […]
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