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🌱 Baylor Upset + Brian Daboll + NorthStar Impacted By COVID-19
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Rise and shine, neighbors! It's me again, Ryan Phillips, your host of the Tuscaloosa Daily.
In today's Daily, we have these stories and more ...
- Bama upsets Baylor.
- COVID-19 impacts ambulance service.
- Former Bama star named football coach at Miles College.
First, today's weather: Sunny and milder. High: 61 | Low: 32.
🗣Patch Shout Out 🗣
Our Shout Out for this Sunday morning goes to the Northside High School FBLA, who recently helped Junior Achievement prepare for upcoming Senior Success Days in April. Participating students include: Ally Skelton, Allison Brown, Tristan Braughton, Haley Harris, Emily Wolfe, Alina Harper and JA contact Nisa Moore.
🗞 Here are the top 5 stories in Tuscaloosa today 🗞
- The Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team used a 14-2 run early in the second half and another big surge down the stretch to pull off an 87-78 win over No. 4 Baylor in Coleman Coliseum on Saturday. (Associated Press)
- NorthStar Operations Director Edgar Calloway says the ambulance service's EMTs and paramedics are being stretched thin due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Chelsea Barton, WVUA 23)
- A Tuscaloosa woman has been charged with two counts of second-degree assault and one count of discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle after a shooting wounded two children in early January. (Stephen Dethrage, Tuscaloosa Thread)
- Tuscaloosa city officials on Friday gathered to unveil the renaming of a street in honor of fallen TPD investigators Dornell Cousette. (Tim Reid, CBS 42)
- The New York Giants on Friday announced the hire of former Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll as their new head coach. He previously served as offensive coordinator at the University of Alabama under coach Nick Saban. (ESPN)
🗓 Today in Tuscaloosa 🗓
- Randy Owen's Music Memorial @ VFW Post 6022 (More)
- Miss Super Bowl Beauty & Super Model @ Jerry Tingle Activity Center (More)
✏️ Tuscaloosa Patch Notebook ✏️
Stillman College's men's and women's basketball teams both came up short Saturday on the road at No. 21 Faulkner University in Montgomery. (More)
West Alabama women's basketball guard Bria Dent posted her ninth double-double and was the only UWA player to notch double figures against Lee University in a 60-47 loss Saturday afternoon inside Pruitt Hall Gymnasium. (More)
Alabama women's basketball will host RV/NR Missouri for its annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day game in Coleman Coliseum on Sunday beginning at 5 p.m. The game will be broadcast on SEC Network. (More)
👨💻 Other stories I'm reading today 👨💻
- 'We don't need a Deion:' Miles College introduces Sam Shade as head football coach (Solomon Crenshaw Jr., Birmingham Times)
- Moore's wife, daughter testify as defense begins building case (Jacob Holmes, Alabama Political Reporter)
- Former Alabama LB arrested, facing armed robbery charges (Michael Casagrande, AL.com)
- Birmingham to host more SWAC football (Tyler Patchen, Birmingham Business Journal)
- Bill would end driver license suspensions for traffic fines (Heather Gann, Alabama Daily News)
- Chelsea says "no" to paying more in property tax for new district (Ashley Gooden, ABC 33/40)
- 14 candidates qualify for Alabama governor's race (WFSA 12 News)
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— RP
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