T-Town On 'Jeopardy!' + Former Tide Star Dies + UA Arboretum

TGIF T-Town! Let's get this Friday morning started with all of your Tuscaloosa headlines.

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

• Alabama Sports Hall of Fame inductees.
• T-Town on "Jeopardy!"
• Former Tide star dies.

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First, today's weather: Partly sunny and warm. High: 72 | Low: 51. ☀️

🗣Patch Shout Out! 🗣

Our Shout Out this Friday morning goes out to University of Alabama softball coach Patrick Murphy, who was named among the 2022 class of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame as he enters his 24th season as head coach. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

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🗞 Here are the top 5 stories today in Tuscaloosa 🗞

1. Birmingham businessman and former All-SEC safety at the University of Alabama Alan Pizzitola died Wednesday of pneumonia at the age of 67 following a courageous public fight with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
2. ICYMI: The late Buford Boone, the longtime Tuscaloosa News publisher who won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for his searing editorial decrying racial violence in the city, had his illustrious contributions memorialized in a question on "Jeopardy!" (Tuscaloosa Patch)
3. The University of Alabama Arboretum has announced a partnership with the school's Student Government Association to store harvest produce in a freezer in the UA Student Center where any student can have access to food. (Ty Boyle, Crimson White)
4. Over 1,800 Tuscaloosa residents enjoyed a free Thanksgiving meal from local restaurants last week, and those who could donated money toward Habitat for Humanity of Tuscaloosa helped raise over $10,000. (Kyrsten Eller, WVUA 23)
5. Get in the holiday spirit with a look at one of the most elaborate and colorful displays of Christmas lights in Tuscaloosa. (Noah Lueker, Tuscaloosa Thread)

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🌱 Today in Tuscaloosa 🌱

• Southern Comfort Band @ VFW Post 6022 (More)
• December First Friday: West Alabama Juried Show @ The Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center (More)

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👨‍💻 Other stories I'm reading today 👨‍💻

- Christmas 2021: 25 must-see holiday concerts in Alabama (Mary Colurso, AL.com)

- Alabama woman awarded $2.1 million after being falsely arrested for shoplifting (Eddie Burkhalter, Alabama Political Reporter)

- Troubled Jefferson County antipoverty group reverses closure plan (Associated Press)

- Meet the 2021 BBJ CEO Awards finalists (Stephanie Rebman, Birmingham Business Journal)

- McCartney: Success of K-12 students critical (Alabama Daily News)

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✏️ Tuscaloosa Patch Notebook ✏️

A Tuscaloosa teenager has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after entering a guilty plea to the armed robbery of the Wendy's on 15th Street in 2019. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

In other court news, a Tuscaloosa man was sentenced Tuesday by a federal judge to 180 months in prison for trafficking methamphetamine and a concurrent 120 months for being a felon in possession of a firearm. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

Seven University of Alabama athletics programs led the SEC in Graduation Success Rate figures released by the NCAA on Thursday. (More)

Theatre Tuscaloosa will hold auditions for its upcoming production of "On Golden Pond" on Dec. 13 and 14 at 7 p.m. in the Wilson Carr Rehearsal Hall of the Martin Campus of Shelton State Community College. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

Three men have been arrested and charged in connection to a series of vehicle burglaries in the Ridgewood and Broadview neighborhoods over the last few weeks. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

Retired Wilcox County Sheriff's Deputy Madison "Skip" Nicholson was shot and killed in the line of duty Wednesday evening, in addition to another deputy being injured as they responded to a domestic dispute. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

The University of Alabama women's basketball team (6-2) will host Houston on Friday, Dec. 3, which will air on SEC Network Plus (More)

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🏀 Tuscaloosa Patch Scoreboard 🏀

Men's College Basketball

Stillman College 90, Middle Georgia 65

Women's College Basketball

Shelton State Community College 117, Enterprise State Community College 58

Middle Georgia 74, Stillman College 59

Boys' Varsity Basketball

Holt 58, Holy Spirit 52

Tuscaloosa Academy 64, North River Christian 33

Berry 52, Meek 49

South Lamar 64, Hubbertville 32

Girls' Varsity Basketball

Tuscaloosa Academy 68, North River Christian 5

Holt 29, Holy Spirit 28

Meek 48, Berry 26

Demopolis 61, Choctaw County 42

Jasper 51, Cornerstone 19

South Lamar 42, Hubbertville 21

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