🌱 A New Alabama Champion + Spring Football + Winter Weather

Rise and shine, Tuscaloosa! Let's get you started this Sunday with everything you need to know going on around town today.

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

• Winter weather updates.
• The latest Alabama national champion.
• Alabama football spring practice.

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First, today's weather: Warmer with plenty of sun. High: 58 | Low: 31.

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🗣 Patch Shout Out 🗣

Our Shout Out for this Sunday morning goes to the Tuscaloosa County High School Choir for recently participating in the 2022 All-State Choral Festival. (More)

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🗞 Here are the top 5 stories today in Tuscaloosa 🗞

1. Saturday night and Sunday morning were among the coldest of the year, with freeze warnings still in effect for a large part of the state. (Leigh Morgan, AL.com)
2. As Alabama moves through the early days of spring football practices, openings on the offensive line have already started to spur conversations. (Charlie Potter, BamaOnline)
3. A professional wrestler known as Big E suffered a broken neck during a live "WWE Smackdown" broadcast in Birmingham on Friday. (WBRC Fox 6 News)
4. Alabama baseball (11-5) defeated the Binghamton Bearcats 14-2 on Saturday to win the weekend series. The Tide finish up the series Sunday at 1 p.m. (Tony Tsoukalas, BamaCentral)
5. Here's a look at a series of new appointments by Republican Gov. Kay Ivey for various state positions, commissions, and boards. (Alabama Political Reporter)

🗓 Today in Tuscaloosa 🗓

• Freedom Chess Academy Classes @ Regency Tuscaloosa (More)
• Qigong @ Painted Lotus Yoga and Wellness (More)
• Weaving Muscogee Creek Culture: The Artistry of Mary Smith (More)

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🏆 Winner of the Day 🏆

The University of Alabama's Bobby Colantonio Jr. — a cancer survivor who was given a 20% chance to live — became the national champion in the men's weight throw Friday night at the Birmingham Crossplex in the midst of the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. (More)

✏️ Tuscaloosa Patch Notebook ✏️

Alabama softball (20-2) lost both games of a Saturday doubleheader against LSU, falling 13-6 and 5-1. (More)

Central High School students Micah Kelleher and Kameron Oliver recently earned big honors for their work from the VAA Art competition and will progress to the state level competition. (More)

Researchers at the University of Alabama is set to receive about $9 million from the U.S. Department of Defense as part of a four-year, $11 million research project aimed at developing a novel hydrogen fuel. (More)

Theatre Tuscaloosa this week announced Project Broadway — a new summer workshop for teens in which theatre professionals will work with participants to put on a Broadway-style musical that they will write, rehearse, and perform in just one week in June. (More)

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👨‍💻 5 other stories I'm reading today 👨‍💻

1. Apparel company, 557 jobs coming to vacant Alabama plant (Associated Press)
2. House passes bill to amend 'good time' prison law (Maddison Booth, Alabama Daily News)
3. Hoover restaurateurs open cafe in Birmingham City Hall (A.J. O'Leary, Birmingham Business Journal)
4. Dunning named MVP of Alabama-Mississippi all-star game (Tommy Hicks, Lagniappe)
5. Pell City teen set to audition on American Idol season 20 (Muriel Bailey, ABC 33/40)

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Alrighty, you're all good for today. See you all tomorrow morning for another update!

— RP