This month's NFL draft has been hindered by the COVID-19 pandemic, with hopes of a festive scene on the Las Vegas strip being replaced by a studio setting that will include "virtual attendees" after the traditional green room containing the top college talents had to be scrapped.

Alabama coach Nick Saban doesn't believe extending preseason camp for college football teams around the country is necessarily the best way to get them ready for the season.

The NCAA will permit Division I spring sports athletes - such as baseball, softball and lacrosse players - who had their seasons shortened by the coronavirus pandemic to have an additional year of eligibility.

In a perfect world, a world not completely under siege from COVID-19, the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament's Sweet 16 round would begin Thursday night.

There are several Southeastern Conference football programs that can reflect on recent months as reasons for optimism ahead.

Alabama was scheduled to start spring football practice Friday afternoon, unleashing a quarterback competition featuring Mac Jones, Taulia Tagovailoa and five-star early enrollee Bryce Young.

This newspaper's Gene Henley and I had just gotten on the shuttle bus that would take us from Nissan Stadium to Bridgestone Arena on Thursday morning when the "breaking news" headlines flashed across various social media outlets.

After canceling the Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament Thursday morning, league commissioner Greg Sankey held a news conference Thursday afternoon inside Nashville's Bridgestone Arena and firmly announced the cancellations of the upcoming SEC gymnastics and equestrian championships.

The only people hanging around Bridgestone Arena early Thursday afternoon were the throngs of media that had arrived at the site of the Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament.

When the SEC opened league play in men's basketball on January's first Saturday, nobody got off to a more impressive start than Alabama.

Texas A&M and Vanderbilt were picked to finish 12th and 14th in the 2020 Southeastern Conference men's basketball race.

Aside from being 2,000 miles away from his home in Southern California, the most challenging part of Alabama freshman quarterback Bryce Young's transition to college was dealing with two straight weeks of rainy weather in Tuscaloosa this winter.

Kentucky will be seeded first and Vanderbilt will be seeded last in next week's Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament in Nashville.

Move over XFL, spring football is cranking up around the Southeastern Conference.

After serving as an Alabama offensive analyst the past two football seasons, Butch Jones has moved to the role of Nick Saban's right-hand man.

Amazingly, this is still a thing as we begin the third decade of the 21st century.

The Southeastern Conference men's basketball race has been separated into three tiers heading into the final four weekends of the regular season.

Austin Wiley had 18 points, a career-high 17 rebounds and five blocked shots and No. 11 Auburn beat rival Alabama 95-91 Wednesday night in the Tigers' latest foray into overtime.

This continues to be the Nick Saban era in college football. This is also the social media generation.

Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey announced that roughly $651 million of revenue was divided among the league's 14 universities for the 2018-19 fiscal year, which ended Aug. 31.

Chattanoogans continue to have a reputation for being the adventurous type.

A top-heavy basketball league will face a balanced basketball league Saturday in the seventh annual Big 12/SEC Challenge.

The Southeastern Conference produced national champion LSU and five of the top 15 teams in the final Associated Press poll for the 2019 college football season.