John Parker

Alabama keeps top ranking in college football's BCS standings; Utah ranked 7, BYU ranked 14

The University of Alabama, among eight of the top 10 college football teams that played and won yesterday, stayed atop the Bowl Championship Series standings that showed little change from the previous week.

Special teams breakdowns (again) hurt Bulldogs

Alabama restored order to its universe Saturday. The nation's No. 1 team feasted on Mississippi State's special teams letdowns en route to a 32-7 win on a frigid night at Bryant-Denny Stadium. © 2001-2008 Journal Publishing...

Hurry up and wait, Alabama, Iron Bowl is next

Now, Alabama waits. The top-ranked Crimson Tide has the perfect record intact, the Southeastern Conference Western Division title in hand and a shot at the national championship within reach. Safety Rashad Johnson had more...

Rams steamroll into the playoffs

Dillon Markau remembers what it was like to be the bystander. The helpless feeling of watching from the bench as his Casa Roble team was routed in the first round of last year's playoffs.Markau was a sophomore called up from...

Hattiesburg auto dealers say bailout won't be a cure-all

Emma James • Ed Kemp • November 16, 2008 HATTIESBURG — A bailout of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler may be on the congressional to-do list, but Hattiesburg dealers doubt any package would have a cure-all effect on their...

Tide concentrating on Croom's crew

By Tim Gayle • tgayle@gannett.com • November 15, 2008 TUSCALOOSA -- For the past two years, Alabama has entered its game with Mississippi State as a prohibitive favorite, only to find itself whipped physically at the point of...

Wife Charged In 2003 Slaying Of Husband In NW Ind.

CROWN POINT, Ind. (Post-Tribune) ― With her children cooperating with prosecutors, Judy D. Parker is now behind bars, charged with murder in the execution-style shooting of her husband, Merrillville businessman John M. Parker....

Everyone's trying to keep up with Jones

BY BRAD LOCKE Daily Journal Nick Saban swears he can't remember the first time he saw Julio Jones, Alabama's star freshman wide receiver. Jones turned a lot of heads in high school and is doing it this year for Saban's No....

Once mistake-prone Wilson leading way for 'Bama

A costly interception? This time the quarterback for No. 1 Alabama was mad that he celebrated a touchdown by putting his hand to his ear as if he were talking on the phone, a gesture directed at LSU fans who had gotten his cell...

Cricket: The 3 that got away

SYDNEY, JANUARY 1974 After being humiliated in the first test between the countries on Australian soil at Melbourne, New Zealand gave their hosts a real fright at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Buoyed by John Parker's 108, New...

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