Happy Friday, everyone. The baseball team is in the midst of an extended losing streak right now and welcomes #7 Kentucky to the Joe this weekend, while the softball team coincidentally travels to Lexington, boosted by the return of star Alexis Osorio. Today also marks the fifth anniversary of Mal Moore’s passing.
Moore’s death from respiratory disease came too soon and there was little chance to reflect that his untimely passing came at a symbolic time.
The final Alabama football game he witnessed, less than three months before he passed away, saw Alabama at the pinnacle of college football, crushing Notre Dame — a team and program that Moore, who had coached for a time in South Bend, revered more than any other except for the Crimson Tide.