{"id":26465,"date":"2023-05-04T15:10:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T20:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=26465"},"modified":"2023-05-04T15:10:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T20:10:39","slug":"roll-wide-tar-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=26465","title":{"rendered":"Roll Wide! Tar Eagle!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/wjl0W\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Bohannon out as baseball coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reason why is a bit shocking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/wjl0W\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cAlabama director of athletics Greg Byrne announced he has initiated the termination process for head baseball coach Brad Bohannon for, among other things, violating the standards, duties, and responsibilities expected of University employees,\u201d the university said in a statement Thursday morning. \u201cBohannon has been relieved of all duties and Jason Jackson will serve as the interim head coach. There will be no further comment at this time pending an ongoing review.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s specifically going on is that there&#8217;s an investigation into \u201csuspicious wagering activity\u201d on Tide games. Three states where betting is legal (Ohio, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) have stopped all betting on Alabama.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/wjl0W\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN first reported Monday evening that the Ohio Casino Control Commission had suspended betting on Alabama baseball games at the state\u2019s legal sports books after U.S. Integrity, a Las Vegas-based independent monitor, detected suspicious bets on last Friday\u2019s Alabama-LSU game in Baton Rouge.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/wjl0W\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Integrity, which monitors gambling data to detect abnormalities and misuse of insider information, sent a warning to all of its clients after Friday\u2019s game. Ronnie Johns, the chairman of the Louisiana Gaming Control Board, told NOLA.com that one of the bets was a parlay involving the Alabama-LSU game, and another was a \u201clarge\u201d straight-up bet on the game. Both wagered LSU would win.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alabama lost to LSU, 8-6.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/wjl0W\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama sophomore pitcher Luke Holman was scheduled to start Friday\u2019s game, but according to UA\u2019s game recap, reliever Hagan Banks was told \u201can hour before\u201d first pitch that he would be starting in Holman\u2019s place. Holman was scratched after experiencing back tightness before the game, The Advocate in Baton Rouge reported Friday evening.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Bohannon out as baseball coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. The reason why is a bit shocking: \u201cAlabama director of athletics Greg Byrne announced he has initiated the termination process for head baseball coach Brad Bohannon for, among other things, violating the standards, duties, and responsibilities expected of University employees,\u201d the university said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firings","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26467,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26465\/revisions\/26467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}