Alabama
Sooners Pick Up Huge Recruiting Victory, Land 5-Star TE Over Alabama, Miami
The Oklahoma Sooners have another reason to smile this summer, with five-star tight end Davon Mitchell choosing to go to Norman for college, according to Manny Navarro and Ari Wasserman of The Athletic. Mitchell, who is the No. 2 tight end on 247 Sports’ rankings, is part of the 2025 class for Oklahoma football but his college arrival could be a year earlier after dropping a hint on his intention to reclassify to the 2024 class.
By choosing to take his talents to Oklahoma football, Mitchell ditched his options to go to Tuscaloosa with the Alabama Crimson Tide or to Coral Gables with the Miami Hurricanes.
“I have been to Oklahoma probably seven or eight times,” the new Oklahoma football commit said to ESPN prior to announcing his decision to be a Sooner. “I kind of grew up watching them, too. … Coach [Brent] Venables, he’s a great coach and hopefully we’re able to get Oklahoma back to where it was before.”
A five-star tight end does not always land in Norman, so Davon Mitchell’s decision to play for Oklahoma football indeed is a great deal for the Sooners. As noted by The Athletic, the Sooners had not before recruited a five-star tight end in the modern era. With Mitchell going to the Sooners, it also meant that perennial national powerhouse Alabama wouldn’t be able to brandish a stouter talent on offense — at least on the tight end position.
Oklahoma football now has two four-star commits for 2025 and three overall, including Mitchell, whjo is from Los Alamitos High School in California.
Alabama
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Alabama
West Alabama’s largest hospital starting shuttle service while new parking deck is constructed
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBRC) – DCH Regional Medical Center will begin providing its own shuttle service Wednesday after using money donated to the DCH Foundation to pay for the two shuttles, affectionately called “shuttle bugs.”
One of the new shuttles is red and black while the other is yellow and black. They’re wrapped to resemble a lady bug and a bumble bee, thus the nickname shuttle bugs.
Each shuttle can carry as many as six people.
“We have the guest service team staffing the shuttles,” said Mallary Myers, Senior Vice President and COO for DCH. “They’re driving around, actively available to pick up patients, visitors, and team members.”
Parking at the DCH campus has been disrupted during the construction of a new parking deck.
The shuttles will serve people who must park in parking lots farther away from the hospital’s entrances due to the construction.
“I love the shuttle service because I wear high heels and it saved me today because I was parked way in the far end,” Ottia Phillips said.
Shuttles will run routes to all parking lots on the Regional Medical Center campus.
Drop off locations include the north and south entrances of the hospital, the Outpatient Center lobby entrance, and the Manderson Cancer Center.
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Alabama
Roll Call, May 16, 2024: Alabama Swimmer Qualifies for Olympic Trials
Alabama swimmer Liberty Williams competed in the Olympic Trial Cut on Wednesday, finishing the 1500m freestyle with a time of 16:42.82. That time was good enough to qualify her for Olympic Trials later this summer.
Williams, a senior, is finishing up her lone season at Alabama after transferring from Louisville, where she spent the previous three years. Trials for the Olympic swim team will take place from June 13-15, with the chance to compete in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
May 16, 1964: A pair of football players earned All-SEC Western Division status in baseball. Outfielder Mickey Andrews, who led the team in hitting with his .324 average, was chosen along with catcher Buddy French. Both were expected to be key members of the football team in the fall.— Bryant Museum
“Dixie Howell, the human Howitzer from Hartford, Alabama blasted the Rose Bowl dreams of Stanford today with one of the greatest exhibitions football has every known.”— Grantland Rice at the 1935 Rose Bowl.
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