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🌱 D.C. Moon Mourned + Power Of Pink Meet + Autherine Lucy Hall

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Rise and shine, Tuscaloosa! Here's everything you need to know to get this Saturday started.

In today's Daily, we have these stories and more ...

  • Alabama gymnastics.
  • Tuscaloosa music legend dies.
  • A new name for UA education building.

First, today's weather: Sunshine giving way to clouds. High: 65 | Low: 30.

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🗣 Patch Shout Out 🗣

Our Shout Out for this Saturday morning goes to Tuscaloosa Academy freshman Michael Constantine, who log perfect scores on the International Geography Bee, The National Science Bee and the National History Bee. These represent qualifying competitions for the National Exams that will be held later this spring.

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🗞 Here are the top 5 stories today in Tuscaloosa 🗞

  1. The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees voted on Friday to drop the name of Bibb Graves from Lucy-Graves Hall, in favor of naming the building Autherine Lucy Hall. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
  2. No. 8 Alabama gymnastics beat Georgia — 197.475-196.800 — Friday night in Coleman Coliseum in front of 10,838 fans during the 18th annual Power of Pink meet. (More)
  3. The Tuscaloosa music community is mourning the death of D.C. Moon, a longtime staple of the local scene known for his shows at The Chukker and Egan's. He was 62. (Ben Flanagan, AL.com)
  4. Ryan Hynes, the University of Alabama's women's wheelchair basketball head coach, will soon be lending his experience to the USA Women's Wheelchair Basketball Team. (Jocelyn Claborn, WVUA 23)
  5. University of Alabama walk-on Braxton Barker will stay in Tuscaloosa this fall as a member of Nick Saban's coaching staff. Barker, who entered the transfer portal after the 2021 season, has been named a graduate assistant for the Tide. (Michael Seale, Birmingham Patch)

🗓 Today in Tuscaloosa 🗓

  • Tuscaloosa Farmers Market (More)
  • Valentine Adoption Event @ Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter (More)
  • Arkansas MBB @ Alabama - 11 a.m. tip (More)
  • The Prize Inside @ The Lookout Rooftop Bar (More)
  • Poppin' Sisters Popcorn @ The University Mall (More)
  • Beginner Acro Yoga Workshop (More)
  • Frank Ray @ Rhythm & Brews (More)

✏️ Tuscaloosa Patch Notebook ✏️

A Tuscaloosa man killed in a motorcycle accident on University Boulevard Thursday evening has been identified after the incident was initially called in as a hit-and-run. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

The 10th annual Tuscaloosa Africana Film Festival, co-sponsored by The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences, will be held virtually Feb. 19-20. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

Tuscaloosa City Schools said on Friday that it will return to an optional mask policy, effective Monday, Feb. 14. This is after the school system's current two-week average fell below the 1% positive student cases adopted by the County Board of Education. (More)

Kentuck Art Center is currently hosting Ahmad Austin's exhibits, "Innocence" and "Music is Life" in the Kentuck Museum and Teer Galleries until Feb. 27. (More)

No. 2 Alabama softball (1-0) shut out Southern Utah, 11-0, in its 2022 season opener at the Candrea Classic in Tucson, Arizona on Friday. (More)

The Stillman Tigers baseball team fell to 1-3 on the early season with a pair of losses to Miles College at Rickwood Field in Birmingham on Friday. (More)

Stillman College softball (0-2) is set for a doubleheader Saturday at home against St. Mary-Of-The-Woods College Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. (More)

On the basketball court, the Stillman Tigers women's and men's teams will host Blue Mountain College in Birthright Auditorium Saturday. (More)

Shelton State Community College softball (3-1) will be on the road for a doubleheader at Lurleen B. Wallace Community College. (More)

The West Alabama baseball team dropped games home against against Emmanuel College and Carson-Newman on Friday to start this weekend's tournament 0-2, while falling to 0-7 on the season. (More)

👀 Check it out 👀

Coleman Coliseum and the Crimson Tide faithful were decked out in pink for the Power of Pink meet Friday night. Click here for a full photo gallery from the Tide's victorious night! (More)

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👨‍💻 Other stories I'm reading today 👨‍💻

- SGA calls for after-hours patrol of parking decks (Kayla Solino, Crimson White)

- Family says UA renaming the education building after Autherine Lucy Foster is an honor (Lauren Jackson, WBRC Fox 6 News)

- 'We want to come home': Tornado survivors plead for help in Hale County (Annie Mapp, ABC 33/40)

- Harsin To Stay At Auburn Amid Rumors, Controversy (Michael Seale, Birmingham Patch)

- Poll shows bipartisan support for Medicaid expansion (Mary Sell, Alabama Daily News)

- Alabama sets date for 2022 A-Day, will honor Tide's first Black athletes (Joe Gaither, Tuscaloosa Thread)

- Broadband package passes in Alabama Senate (John H. Glenn, Alabama Political Reporter)

- Experts weigh in on what Spirit-Frontier merger could mean for Birmingham (AJ O'Leary, Birmingham Business Journal)

🏀 Tuscaloosa Patch Scoreboard (Feb. 11, 2022) 🏀

Boy's High School Basketball

Holt 69, Northside 50

Bibb County 61, Dallas County 43

Red Bay 46, Aliceville 43

Meek 56, Marion County 55

Southside 68, Hale County 61

Winfield 57, Oakman 54

Girl's High School Basketball

Hillcrest 51, Northridge 45

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