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I Hate Alabama
"I Hate Alabama" is a 2021 song by American country music singer Conner Smith. Released on October 8, 2021 as a single, the song is about the heartbreak of a broken romantic relationship that was ended in the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama that Smith had experienced, comparing it to the Third Saturday in October college football rivalry. The song would later go viral within the college football fanbase, gaining millions of streams on social media platforms. Background and production According to Smith, the song was written as a song written towards his ex-girlfriend who he had broken up with. Although the song had numerous references to college football, Smith wrote that the song was not about college football, but rather as a "heartbreak song" centered around college football. In later interviews, he would praise the state of Alabama, saying You know how you love a song, but it reminds you of your ex? That’s what this song is about. And that’s what I love about it. It’s a com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conner Smith
Conner Smith (born September 6, 2000) is an American country music singer. He is signed to Big Machine Records' Valory label and has charted two singles. Smith was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity in college. Biography Conner Smith was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. His mother, Jennifer Vickery Smith, worked in the country music industry and often interviewed artists, which inspired Smith to start songwriting himself. By age 20, he began writing songs with Nashville songwriters Ashley Gorley and Zach Crowell. In late 2021, Smith released a song called " I Hate Alabama", which went viral on TikTok. This song's success led to him signing with Big Machine Records' Valory label. Smith released an extended play for the label titled ''Didn't Go Too Far'' in 2022. The project's lead single "Learn from It" has made the top 40 on Country Airplay Country Airplay is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States since January 20, 1990. This c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alabama Crimson Tide Football
The Alabama Crimson Tide football program represents the University of Alabama (variously Alabama, UA, or Bama) in the sport of American football. The team competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team's head coach is Nick Saban, who has led the Tide to six national championships over his tenure. The Crimson Tide is among the most storied and decorated football programs in NCAA history. Since beginning play in 1892, the program claims 18 national championships, including 13 wire-service ( AP or Coaches') national titles in the poll-era, and five other titles before the poll-era. From 1958 to 1982, the team was led by Hall of Fame coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, who won six national titles with the program. Despite numerous national and conference championships, it was not until 2009 that an Alabama player received a Heisman Trophy, when running back Mark Ing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Alabama Crimson Tide Football Team
The 2022 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "Bama", or " The Tide") represents the University of Alabama in the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season. This season marks the Crimson Tide's 129th overall season, 90th as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and 31st within the SEC Western Division. They play their home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and are led by 16th-year head coach Nick Saban. Previous season The Crimson Tide finish the 2021 season with a record of 12–2 (7–1 in the SEC) as the defending consensus national champions and SEC champions, beating an undefeated Cincinnati in the College Football Playoff Semifinal before losing to Georgia in the 2022 College Football National Championship (rematch from the from 2021 SEC Championship Game and 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship). Offseason Departures Team departures Over the course of the off-season, Alabama lost 37 total players. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Georgia Bulldogs Football Team
The 2022 Georgia Bulldogs football team represents the University of Georgia in the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulldogs play their home games at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia, and compete in the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They are led by seventh-year head coach Kirby Smart. They entered the season as the defending consensus national champions. The Bulldogs finished the regular season 12–0, 8–0 in SEC play to finish first in the conference's Eastern Division. In the SEC Championship Game, the Bulldogs defeated the LSU Tigers 50–30 to win their first SEC title since 2017. They advanced to the College Football Playoff for the second straight year, and have been selected to play against Ohio State in the Peach Bowl. Previous season The Bulldogs finished the 2021 season with a record of 14–1 (8–0 in the SEC) and as consensus national champions. Georgia entered the season as favorites to win the East Division and meet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 College Football Playoff National Championship
The 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship was a college football bowl game played on January 10, 2022, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. The eighth College Football Playoff National Championship, the game determined the national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) for the 2021 season. The game featured the No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide and the No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs, both of whom represented the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The game began at 8:16 p.m. EST and was broadcast by ESPN. Georgia entered the game seeking its third national championship, while Alabama entered seeking its 19th. The game started slow offensively, as a field goal on Alabama's opening drive proved to be the only points of the first quarter. After Georgia scored a field goal of their own to tie the game early in the second quarter, the Crimson Tide kicked two more field goals to extend their lead to six points. A Georgia field goal with just over t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SEC Network
The SEC Network is an American multinational sports network owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which operates the network, through its 80% controlling ownership interest) and Hearst Communications (which holds the remaining 20% interest). The channel is dedicated to coverage of collegiate sports sanctioned by the Southeastern Conference (SEC) including live and recorded event telecasts, news, analysis programs, and other content focusing on the conference's member schools. The network is estimated to have 70 million subscribers, more that any other dedicated sports network. The network's coverage serves as the successor to an eponymous syndication package (later renamed SEC TV), which was produced by its syndication arm ESPN Regional Television. SEC Network is operated out of ESPN facilities in Charlotte, North Carolina, shared with ESPN Events, some operations for the ACC Network, and formerly ESPNU. While Charlotte is not an SEC market its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESPN
ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen along with his son Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan. ESPN broadcasts primarily from studio facilities located in Bristol, Connecticut. The network also operates offices and auxiliary studios in Miami, New York City, Las Vegas, Seattle, Charlotte, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. James Pitaro currently serves as chairman of ESPN, a position he has held since March 5, 2018, following the resignation of John Skipper on December 18, 2017. While ESPN is one of the most successful sports networks, there has been criticism of ESPN. This includes accusations of biased coverage, conflict of interest, and controversies with individual broadcasters and analysts. , ESPN reaches approximately 76 million te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Finebaum
Paul Finebaum is an American sports author, former columnist, and television-radio personality. His primary focus is sports, particularly those in the Southeast. After many years as a reporter, columnist, and sports-talk radio host in the Birmingham area, Finebaum was hired by ESPN in 2013 for its new SEC Network. He produces a radio show out of the network's regional base in Charlotte, North Carolina. Career News reporter Finebaum arrived in Birmingham in 1980 and became a columnist and reporter for the ''Birmingham Post-Herald.'' Finebaum's work has earned him more than 250 national, regional, and area sports writing awards, including his stories on the recruitment of Alabama basketball player Buck Johnson. In 1993, he broke the story of Antonio Langham, a University of Alabama football player who signed a contract with a sports agent while playing for the school, which led to an NCAA probation for the school. Finebaum joined the '' Mobile Press Register'' in 2001 where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WIAT
WIAT (channel 42) is a television station in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, affiliated with CBS and owned by Nexstar Media Group. The station's studios are located on Golden Crest Drive atop Red Mountain, Birmingham, Alabama, Red Mountain, next to the AIG, American General candelabra tower it shares with several central Alabama broadcast outlets (near the southern edge of Birmingham). History Early history of UHF channel 42 in Birmingham The history of the UHF channel 42 allocation in the Birmingham market traces back to 1949, when the Birmingham News Company, owners of ''The Birmingham News'' and ''Birmingham Age-Herald'' newspapers, applied for a Construction permit#Broadcasting, construction permit with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a television station broadcast license, license under the call letters WSGN-TV (for the "South's Greatest Newspaper"), which would have served as a sister station to radio station WSGN (610 AM, now WAGG; and 93.7 FM, now WDJ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Alabama
The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, or Bama) is a Public university, public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of Alabama is the oldest and largest of the public List of colleges and universities in Alabama, universities in Alabama as well as the University of Alabama System. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The university offers programs of study in 13 academic divisions leading to bachelor's, master's, Ed.S., education specialist, and doctorate, doctoral degrees. The only publicly supported University of Alabama School of Law, law school in the state is at UA. Other academic programs unavailable elsewhere in Alabama include doctoral programs in anthropology, communication and information sciences, metallurgical engineering, music, Romance languages, and social work. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee Volunteers Football
The Tennessee Volunteers football program (variously called "Tennessee", "Vols", "UT", or "Big Orange") represents the University of Tennessee (UT). The Vols have played football for 130 seasons, starting in 1891; their combined record of 862–408–53 ranks them eleventh on the list of all-time win–loss percentage records and by-victories list for college football programs as well as second on the all-time win/loss list of SEC programs 405-273-33 .http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2017/FBS.pdf Their all-time ranking in bowl appearances is fifth (54) and eighth in all-time bowl victories (29), most notably four Sugar Bowls, three Cotton Bowls, an Orange Bowl, a Peach Bowl, and a Fiesta Bowl. They have won 16 conference championships and claim six national titles, including two ( 1951, 1998) from major wire-service: AP Poll and Coaches' Poll in their history. The Vols play at Neyland Stadium on the university's campus in Knoxville, where Tennessee has won 48 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valory Music Co
Ross Lamont Valory (born February 2, 1949) is an American musician who is best known as the original bass player for the rock band Journey from 1973 to 1985 and again from 1995 to 2020. Valory was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Journey in 2017. Career Ross Valory was born on February 2, 1949 in San Francisco, California. He grew up in Lafayette, California and attended Acalanes High School. In high school, he played clarinet, bass clarinet and guitar. His mother introduced him to jazz, particularly Dave Brubeck. He played with Frumious Bandersnatch followed by Steve Miller Band appearing on ''Rock Love''. He was joined by guitarist David Denny, drummer Jack King and bassist Bobby Winkelman, all of whom would become members of the Steve Miller Band. In fact it was Jim Nixon, the manager of Frumious Bandersnatch, who would introduce Valory to Journey band members along with Prairie Prince, later of The Tubes who originally sat in on drums. Valory later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
