Mobile and Baldwin County News
A Tampa newspaper report that the Senior Bowl might leave Mobile set off a firestorm. With the Ladd-Peebles lease expired and city funding denied twice, the timing looked less like…
In March 2009, Senior Bowl leaders said the event had not entered exclusive talks with Tampa but was considering interest from other cities as Mobile's contract expired.
Organizers of the Gulf Coast Classic predicted the game would one day rival the Iron Bowl. Council President Reggie Copeland wanted bank statements, canceled checks and an honest attendance count.
An audit of the Gulf Coast Classic listed $17,223 in printing costs, far more than the Senior Bowl or BayFest spent. Organizers said the figure covered far more than tickets.
A promised press conference on the Gulf Coast Classic's $188,000 deficit was called off, with organizers citing sensitive negotiations. The city put $275,000 into last fall's game at Ladd-Peebles Stadium.
The council president questioned the promotion budget, the ticket printing, the mayor's luncheon and a step show with no revenue, and disputed the attendance count for a football game the…
The Mobile native and recently departed general manager of the Cleveland Browns made his traditional Senior Bowl week appearance before the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile in January 2009.
Four Mobile-area state legislators hosted a reception for a Montgomery Republican running in the 2nd Congressional District, while the Romney campaign eyed a Senior Bowl weekend stop ahead of an…
Mark Berson placed Mobile's golden age between 1830 and 1860, traced its long decline through the loss of Brookley Field, and argued in 2005 that the city was poised to…