Calhoun (3A), Carver-Columbus (2A), Toombs County (A Division I) and Bowdon (A Division II) top preseason rankings.

Holt, Ala., a Central Iron and Coal Co. town on the banks of the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa County, was sold at auction, bringing $103,000 in February of 1941.

Some suburban animosity toward Birmingham is not unexpected, but is unsettling. It is rooted in decades of white flight that ...