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NFL Monday night: Lions lean on Alabama pair to beat 49ers

In a game that had no bearing on Detroit’s postseason position played six days before one that will, the Lions still were all in to win and leaned on former Alabama standouts Jahmyr Gibbs and Jameson Williams to take a 40-34 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Monday night.

Gibbs produced 163 yards from scrimmage and scored one touchdown, and Williams scored two touchdowns.

The victory in a rematch of last season’s NFC Championship Game lifted the Lions’ record to 14-2, the same as the Minnesota Vikings’ for the best in the NFC.

But even if Detroit had lost to San Francisco, the Lions’ game against the Vikings at 7:20 p.m. CST Sunday at Ford Field in Detroit still would have been for the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs. The winner of Sunday night’s NFC North game, the final one of the NFL’s 2024 regular season, will earn the first-round bye that goes to the top-seeded team while the loser will enter the postseason as a wild-card qualifier and play on the road in the first round despite having the second-best record in the conference.

A wide receiver, Williams scored the Lions’ first points on a 3-yard run on an end-around with 3:42 left in the first quarter and completed a 42-yard touchdown pass play as Detroit cut the 49ers’ lead to 14-13 with 10:09 left in the first half. On that play, quarterback Jared Goff completed a 1-yard pass to wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown, who flipped the football to Williams on a hook-and-ladder play that ended 41 yards later in the end zone.

Williams had five receptions for 77 yards. The touchdown reception was the 10th of his career, and the TD run was his second. Williams had a 19-yard touchdown run in a 33-28 victory over the New Orleans Saints on Dec. 3, 2023.

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A running back, Gibbs ran for 117 yards and one touchdown on 18 carries and caught four passes for 46 yards. Gibbs scored his 16th touchdown of the season on a 30-yard run as Detroit took a 40-28 lead with 2:58 to play.

Three other players from Alabama high schools and college got on the field during the Detroit-San Francisco game:

• Terrion Arnold (Alabama) started at cornerback for the Lions. Arnold made six tackles.
• Brian Branch (Alabama) started at safety for the Lions. Branch made seven tackles and recorded one sack. Branch sacked Brock Purdy with 1:36 left to play, and the San Francisco quarterback left the game with an injury after passing for a career-high 377 yards.

• Lions cornerback Carlton Davis (Auburn) is on injured reserve and not eligible to play.
• Forty-Niners cornerback Darrell Luter Jr. (South Alabama) is on injured reserve and not eligible to play.
• Lions defensive tackle Brodric Martin (Northridge, North Alabama) was designated as a game-day inactive.
• Za’Darius Smith (Greenville) started at defensive end for the Lions. Smith registered one quarterback hit.

After playing in the Super Bowl last season, San Francisco (6-10) will complete its 2024 season against the Arizona Cardinals at 3:25 p.m. Sunday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.

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South Alabama basketball pummels Mobile, 106-41, in largest blowout of Richie Riley era

South Alabama suffered one of the more stunning losses in program history a year ago against crosstown opponent Mobile, an NAIA program.

This was not that.

The Jaguars ran away with a 106-41 victory on Monday night at the Mitchell Center, scoring the most-decisive win in seven years under head coach Richie Riley and posting the highest-point total since Riley’s first season. Riley certainly had last year’s loss to the Rams in mind on Monday, down to the number of days since it occurred.

“They came in here 419 days ago and they popped us,” Riley said. “… We watched the game. I wanted our guys to see it — our new guys, and then I wanted our guys that were here to see it.

“… When they watched that game, they saw the pain we went through on Nov. 6 last year. We responded. We came out, we played the right way. We played with toughness. We played with force. We played with urgency. We played incredibly unselfish.”

After falling behind by double-digits early in an 83-74 loss to the Rams to open last season, South Alabama (9-4) took a 10-point lead at the 9:39 mark on Monday and poured it on from there. The Jaguars had runs of 13-0 in the first half and 18-0 in the second half before closing the game with 14 straight points.

South Alabama shot 56% from the floor and made 14 3-pointers while turning the ball over just three times, outrebounding Mobile 45-25 and collecting 16 steals. Meanwhile, Mobile (9-4) had 22 turnovers and just 15 made baskets all night.

“We’ve got dudes in there that really care,” Riley said. “We got dudes in there — and it’s rare in 2024 — they’re not consumed with their self. They genuinely care about each other and they don’t want to let each other down. They don’t want to let South Alabama down. They don’t want to let the program down.”

South Alabama won big despite an off night by guard Myles Corey, the Sun Belt Conference’s leading scorer coming in at 18.4 points per game. He managed only 9 on Monday, but the Jaguars more than made up for it elsewhere in the lineup.

Barry Dunning had 18 points and a game-high nine rebounds, while Dylan Fasoyiro scored 16 with four steals, Elijah Ormiston scored 12 and JJ Wheat had seven assists and four steals without a turnover. Judah Brown — with Ormiston one of just two current South Alabama players who also played in the loss to Mobile last year — scored a career-high 24, going 7-for-9 on 3-pointers.

“It feels a lot better to come in here after doing what we needed to do and instead of losing, so it was good,” said Brown, the longest-tenured Jaguar in his third year with the program. “… My teammates have built that trust in me, and they believe in me to make those shots, to take those shots. It’s funny, I was talking to my teammates before and it’s like, that’s what I do, I shoot.

“I’m a really good shooter and so I do them a disservice if I don’t shoot. So, to have that trust in me from my teammates is just confidence-boosting and you saw that confidence today.”

Jarvis Moss was the lone Mobile player in double figures scoring with 12 points, all on 3-pointers. BJ Comer scored eight in the game’s first five minutes, but none after that.

South Alabama improved to 10-1 all-time vs. Mobile and scored 100-plus points for the fourth time under Riley. The other 100-point outings were 102-41 over Spring Hill in 2021, 103-81 vs. Flagler in 2020 and 106-76 over Huntingdon on Nov. 11, 2018, which was Riley’s first home game as Jaguars head coach.

Dunning — a Mobile native in his first season at South Alabama after transferring in from UAB — said he could tell the victory over Mobile was meaningful to Riley, particularly in light of the crushing defeat to the Rams last season.

“Coach Riley gave us the opportunity to play here,” Dunning said. “So, we owe him everything. We owe him our heart, our tears, our sweat — literally our blood sometimes. It meant something to him. It meant something to us. So, we went out there, we played with all we had, and we came out with a win.”

South Alabama returns to Sun Belt play at Georgia State on Thursday night. Mobile travels to face SSAC and in-state rival Faulkner on Saturday in Montgomery.

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How Auburn men’s basketball’s 18-0 run led to Tigers’ 12th victory, beating Monmouth

New Year. New record.

Auburn men’s basketball now sits at 12-1 after securing its 60 straight home non-conference victory Monday night against Monmouth.

In what too seemed to be a Christmas hangover at the start of the Tigers final non-conference matchup, Auburn regrouped and reminded fans of their dominant pedigree closing out 2024 with an 87-58 victory.

Monmouth opened the game drilling its first three 3-pointers due to Auburn defensive breakdowns. The Hawks finished the first half shooting 50% from beyond the arc.

Auburn’s Denver Jones matched the Hawks with nine early points of his on from deep lighting a spark that never went out for the Tigers.

“So, wrapping up a nonconference schedule. It was the toughest nonconference schedule in the history of Auburn basketball, and we lost one game at Duke; a close game,” Pearl said. “So, I’m very, very proud of our kids. A lot of the games we played were on neutral sites and away from home, so we demonstrated that we can win away from Neville (Arena). Now, we get ready to start the toughest conference schedule in the history of college basketball.”

The Tigers connected on five of thier next seven shots extending its lead to 28-24 and forcing a Monmouth timeout.

After the break, Chaney Johnson’s 10 points extended Auburn’s lead to 38-28 as the momentum begin to shift the Tigers direction. Auburn finished the half scoring 18 unanswered points.

“I was glad he took over the second rotation, but not happy with his first he knows I wasn’t happy with his first rotation. Why not take over his first rotation? Pearl said. “So, he did great. Yeah, he came in, he played great. And I complimented him at halftime for really not having a very good first rotation and then coming back and playing great.

“Part of it is taking all this time off and, you know, and things along those lines. Athletically, physically, I have high expectations, obviously, for Chaney. So when Chaney plays well, I’m not impressed, because that’s what I expect him to do.”

Auburn held Monmouth to just 30 second half points as the hawks hit only ten shots from the floor. The Tigers outrebounded Monmouth 46-27 and scored 20 points off of 11 Hawks turnovers.

Four Tigers finished in double figures headlined by double-doubles from the frontcourt duo of Johni Broome and Dylan Cardwell.

Auburn will kick off conference play with Missouri on Saturday, Jan. 4 inside Neville Arena.

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New York Jets add former Alabama defensive lineman, cut former Auburn kicker

Anders Carlson will not be with the New York Jets for their regular-season finale on Sunday. But Phidarian Mathis will be.

On Monday, the Jets waived Carlson, a former Auburn kicker, and were awarded Mathis, a former Alabama defensive tackle, as a waiver claim.

The Washington Commanders waived Mathis on Saturday to open an active-roster spot for former Crimson Tide All-American Jonathan Allen, who returned from a nine-game stay on injured reserve.

The Cincinnati Bengals, Houston Texans and Detroit Lions also put in claims for Mathis, NFL Network reported. The Jets were awarded Mathis because of their 4-12 record. The waiver order is decided in the same way as the NFL Draft, with the claims awarded from worst to best.

By failing to clear waivers, Mathis comes to New York with his four-year rookie contract intact, so he is under contract with the Jets for the 2025 season.

Mathis played 257 defensive snaps and 54 special-teams plays in 12 games for Washington this season, his third since joining the Commanders in the second round of the 2022 NFL Draft.

In Washington, Mathis played with former Crimson Tide defensive tackles Allen and Daron Payne. Alabama alumnus Quinnen Williams has been a Pro Bowl defensive tackle for the Jets for the past two seasons.

Carlson was New York’s fourth kicker this season after Greg Zuerlein handled the duty for the first eight games, and Riley Patterson and Spencer Shrader kicked in one game apiece.

Carlson kicked in five games but was a game-day inactive on Sunday. In his second NFL season, Carlson made 8-of-10 field-goal attempts, including a 58-yarder, and 9-of-11 extra-point kicks for New York.

On Saturday, the Jets restored Zuerlein to the active roster after he’d spent seven games on injured reserve because of a knee injury. Zuerlein was active for Sunday’s 40-14 loss to the Buffalo Bills, but he did not attempt any kicks.

The Jets close their season against the Miami Dolphins at 3:25 p.m. CST Sunday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.

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Barrage of gunfire in Birmingham leaves 3 wounded

Three people were wounded when gunfire erupted in Birmingham’s Kingston community late Monday afternoon.

Birmingham police just after 4:30 p.m. began receiving Shot Spotter alerts of multiple rounds fired in the 4700 block of Ninth Court North.

Officers found one victim, an adult male, injured at the Shell gas station on Richard Arrington Jr. Boulevard, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald.

Two females were found wounded at an apartment in the 4400 Block of 9th Avenue North.

Fitzgerald said the victims all appeared to be adults.

One of the females sustained life-threatening injuries. The other two victims are expected to be OK.

Investigators believe all three were shot in the same incident.

No arrests have been made.

Anyone with information is asked to call detective at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.

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3 takeaways from Auburn basketball’s final non-conference game vs. Monmouth

After a nine-day break, Auburn men’s basketball returned to Neville Arena looking for one last easy buy game win before starting conference play.

While Auburn did get the win, beating Monmouth 87-58, it didn’t always look easy. It took the Tigers until late in the first half to gain control of the game.

Auburn finished off a lopsided win in the end, improving its record to 12-1 going into Southeastern Conference play this weekend.

Here are three takeaways from the win over Monmouth:

Slow start

Monday night’s win didn’t follow the typical formula of Auburn pouncing to a big lead and cruising. Monmouth led at the first media timeout and stayed close for most of the first half.

Auburn looked out of sorts defensively to start the game, giving up open shots both in transition and caused by dribble penetration. Monmouth took advantage of that in the first few minutes, starting the game making its first three 3-pointers.

The defensive gameplan was fairly clear early on, with Auburn placing extra attention on Monmouth’s leading scorer, Abdi Bashir Jr. He often occupied multiple defenders, which led to some openings in dribble penetration and a few miscommunications in transition.

Auburn eventually turned things around, ending the first half on an 18-0 run. During that run, the defense tightened things up and Bashir was hardly able to get a touch.

Chaney Johnson’s boost

As the scoreboard read 28-28 at the 6:32 mark of the first half, Auburn was looking for a run to end the first half and take full control of the game into the halftime locker room.

The Tigers got just that, scoring 18 unanswered before the halftime buzzer sounded, and the surge was led by Chaney Johnson.

Johnson, who finished the game with 12 points, started the run with 10 straight points of his own. His baskets came in the half court, in transition and at the free throw line, immediately bringing a balanced offensive spark after replacing the injured Dylan Cardwell, who didn’t return until the second half.

Johnson has been an impact player off the bench for Auburn all season and Monday night was no different. Not only were his 10 straight points and 12 total points impressive, he also finished the game +30 in 19 minutes played.

A new season begins

The buy games, showcases and invitationals are over.

Auburn emerged from its daunting nonconference slate an impressive 12-1, but now the real gauntlet begins. The SEC is stronger than it’s arguably ever been this season, meaning there are no more easy games left on the schedule.

Through 13 games, though, there’s no reason to believe the Tigers aren’t ready for the challenge. Monday wasn’t a perfect 40 minutes, and the big win didn’t come against SEC-level competition, but it capped off a nonconference schedule that featured wins over teams like Houston, Iowa State and Purdue.

Other than a different result at Duke, Auburn couldn’t ask for much more out of nonconference play. But championships aren’t won in December, so there’s no time for Auburn to sleepwalk or get complacent. There might have been a hint of that to start Monday’s game.

Nevertheless, the Tigers have put themselves in position to be a national contender entering conference play. Saturday will be the first step in determining whether or not they play up to that level.

Peter Rauterkus covers Auburn sports for AL.com. You can follow him on X at @peter_rauterkus or email him at [email protected]m

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Huntsville police release more footage of person of interest in Christmas Day homicide; help sought to ID man

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Tua Tagovailoa’s current hip injury unrelated to Alabama setback

In what turned out to be his final game as Alabama’s quarterback, Tua Tagovailoa sustained a dislocated hip and posterior wall fracture against SEC rival Mississippi State on Nov. 16, 2019.

A hip injury kept Tagovailoa from lining up at QB for Miami on Sunday in a game the Dolphins had to win to stay in the NFL playoff race.

On Monday, Miami coach Mike McDaniel said the first question he asked when he learned of Tagovailoa’s latest injury was if it was related to his college injury.

“They’re unrelated,” McDaniel said, “and there’s no causation involved in it.”

Now the question is: Can Tagovailoa play on Sunday in the Dolphins’ regular-season finale against the New York Jets?

That game matters because Miami defeated the Cleveland Browns 20-3 on Sunday with Snoop Huntley at quarterback.

If the Dolphins beat the Jets and the Denver Broncos lose to the Kansas City Chiefs on the final Sunday of the regular season, Miami would claim the third wild-card spot in the AFC playoff field. Both games will kick off at 3:25 p.m. CST.

Tagovailoa didn’t make a big deal about his injury when he met with reporters on Thursday.

“I mean it’s good,” Tagovailoa said. “It’s just like anyone else on the team and anyone else around the league. You get banged up a little bit towards the ending of the year, so just got to take care of that.”

Tagovailoa sustained the hip injury during a 20-12 loss to the Houston Texans on Dec. 15 and aggravated the injury in a 29-17 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Dec. 22. Tagovailoa took every offensive snap for the Dolphins in both games.

McDaniel said the injury did not heal as the Dolphins had hoped last week.

“Relative to a projected timeline based upon the previous week, I would say that it didn’t improve as we were kind of forecasting,” McDaniel said. “Not necessarily worse, just you’re expecting things to progress, and sometimes the body could care less about your expectations. It wasn’t like he took a shot or got hit in practice or anything like that. We just had some, I think, reasonable expectations based upon the week previous, and it didn’t really work out that way. …

“It was not safe at all (for Tagovailoa to play) based upon a litany of things that his body was vulnerable to as well as his inability to avoid and move within the pocket. The risk of just leaving him really unprotected is the way that I would say both on impact and the ability to avoid impact.”

This week, McDaniel said he would have Huntley better prepared to play if Tagovailoa is out again.

“This week, I know one thing: Snoop will get more reps than Tua this week as we go through the week and have to be prepared for both guys to play,” McDaniel said, “because I don’t really know exactly what it’s going to look like this next Sunday. So that’s really the optimism. We’re kind of in a gray area now because of just how his body did not cooperate with my agenda.”

McDaniel said Tagovailoa’s participation this week would be determined by the Dolphins’ medical staff. The decision to play would not be the quarterback’s. Otherwise, Tagovailoa would have been in the lineup against the Browns, McDaniel said.

“I think with injuries it’s pretty cut and dry,” McDaniel said. “One hundred times out of 100, if someone’s not medically cleared to play, I don’t trump card that. I suppose, on game day, I guess by the letter of the law you could say it’s my final say. My final say is to choose to listen to the medical professionals with their expertise and knowing the pros and cons, and that’s the only thing responsible to do with players.”

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.

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BetMGM bonus code ALCOM1500 activates huge first-bet bonus for Lions vs 49ers on MNF

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Kahleb Collins believed to be dead: Fayette County other charged in connection with deaths of 2 toddlers

An Alabama toddler discovered missing after a crash killed his father and sister is believed by authorities to be dead and his critically injured mother is now charged in connection with his and his sister’s deaths.

Wendy “Pam” Bailey, 22, is charged with abuse of corpse, a Class C felony, aggravated child abuse, a Class A Felony, first-degree domestic violence, a Class A felony, and criminally negligent homicide, a Class A misdemeanor, 24th Judicial Circuit District Attorney Andy Hamlin announced Monday.

The criminally negligent homicide charge is for the death of 2-year-old Ryleigh Collins.

The girl was killed in the horrific Dec. 8 crash that also killed 40-year-old Steven Bradley “Brad” Collins, who was Bailey’s husband and the father of Ryleigh and 1-year-old Kahleb Collins.

The investigation showed Ryleigh was unrestrained when the fatal crash happened that Sunday morning.

The rest of the charges are linked to the presumed death of Kahleb, whose body has not yet been found.

Hamlin said the intense, three-week investigation led authorities to determine that Kahleb has been dead for several months. He said law enforcement is still actively searching for his remains.

The warrants against Bailey were served Monday. Bailey was released from UAB Hospital and booked into the Fayette County Jail.

Prosecutors are asking that she be held without bond under Aniah’s Law.

“This investigation has been particularly challenging as it involved the tragic deaths of two young children,’’ Hamlin said.

“I want to commend the efforts and cooperation shown by every agency involved: the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office, the State Bureau of Investigation and the Alabama State Troopers.”

The investigation began that Sunday when the crash happened on Fayette County 73 near Morris Cemetery Road, about two miles south of Glen Allen.

A crash report said Collins was driving 92 mph hour on the road that had a 45-mph speed limit.

“The driver …was driving aggressively at an extreme rate of speed,’’ the ALEA trooper wrote. “Due to his actions, the driver was unable to operate his vehicle safely on the wet roadway.”

The wreck happened when Collins was trying to negotiate a curve to the right, according to the report.

The force of the impact caused Collins and his wife to be ejected from the truck. They were not wearing seat belts.

Ryleigh Collins, who was unrestrained in the back seat, was pronounced dead on the scene at 11 a.m.

Collins, who worked for a roofing company, was taken by ambulance to UAB Hospital where he died the following day at 1:06 p.m.

Bailey was airlifted to UAB.

Following the deadly crash, investigators learned that Kahleb was missing.

The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office several days later issued a press release saying the 1-year-old had been missing since the Dec. 8 single-vehicle crash.

The following day, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency issued a missing alert for Kahleb.

Investigators carried out multiple searches at the family’s home on Highway 129 in the Winfield area, and traveled to Birmingham several times to interview Bailey at the hospital.

Court records indicate the Alabama Department of Human Resources had been involved with the family.

The boy’s grandfather, 55-year-old John Elton Bailey, is charged with failure to report a missing child as officials alleged that Kahleb was last seen Sept. 4.

The criminal complaint states Bailey “failed to report a missing child by delaying to make or failing to cause to be made the report with willful and reckless disregard for the safety of the child and the child suffered serious bodily harm or death, to wit: physical injuries to the child and the child was removed from the home and taken to an unknown location and no report was made by any resident of the home.”

Bailey was arrested Dec. 11 and remains held in the Fayette County Jail on $100,000 bond.

One of Bailey’s appointed attorneys, James Standridge, said the public defender’s office is now working to learn the facts of the case prior to the preliminary hearing which is set for Jan. 15.

John Bailey is Wendy Bailey’s father and lived with the family.

Brad Collins on Nov. 6 posted this on Facebook: “Our son is not doing well. He is not growing has major back issues. His organs are growing but not his body. He has to have surgery at some point. Keep him in your prayers. Been rough and just seems going to be a long rough road ahead of us.”

The investigation is ongoing with additional charges possible against the mother, Hamlin said.

Anyone with additional information is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 205-932-3205, the State Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-392-8011 or Hamlin’s office at 205-367-9915.

“Now that the charges have been brought,” Hamlin said, “I look forward to getting the case to court to seek justice for these two innocent children.”

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