Chad is the Voice of Alabama Softball on the Crimson Tide Sports Network and the Executive Producer of Houston & Huber and The Chris Stewart Show. He has covered three Women's College World Series and three BCS National Championship Games. Born and raised in Stockbridge, Ga., Haynie graduated from Stockbridge High and attended the Savannah College of Art & Design before transferring to The University of Alabama in 2007. Haynie worked as a Media Relations Assistant for three years in the UA Athletic Department working with the football, softball, baseball, volleyball, men's basketball, track & field and cross country programs and then moved on to become Sports Director at WVUA-FM. He is a lifelong fan of the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Falcons.
Chad Haynie
Alabama No. 1 in AP Top 25 Poll
The Crimson Tide will keep its top spot in the AP Poll when college football kickoffs later this month.The preseason Associated Press Top 25 that was released today. Alabama received first place votes from 58 of the 60 voters, with Ohio State and Georgia receving one vote each...
TV Times Set for Big 12/SEC Challenge
ESPN announced the television network designations and start times for the 2013 Big 12/SEC Challenge on Tuesday morning. Six of the inter-conference games will be televised by either ESPN or ESPN2 while four games will be shown on ESPNU...
Heat Cranks Up for Tide Practice
It was a hot day in West Alabama and things weren't any cooler inside the fences of the Thomas-Drew Practice Fields on the UA campus today.
ESPN was broadcasting live today from the Strength and Conditioning Facility and there were a number of cameras and microphones from the Worldwide Leader around the practice fields to catch a look at Nick Saban's squad...
Tour Alabama’s New Football Facility (VIDEO)
It's finished! With just a few weeks left before the start of fall camp, the new Alabama football locker room, team lounge, meeting rooms and spa - yes, spa - are now complete. If you were impressed by the new strength and conditioning facility, just wait until you see this...
UA Then and Now
I'm working with a few other people on a series of short videos for the Bryant Museum that will start to come out in the next few months. I'll probably share more about that with you all at a later date, but today while I was doing some research I stumbled upon one of the old University of Alabama promos...
Complete Guide to Softball Super Regionals
Columbia Super Regional
No. 11 Washington vs. No. 6 Missouri
Game One – Thursday, May 23 – 8 p.m. – ESPN
Game Two – Friday, May 24 – 5 p.m. – ESPNU
If necessary – Friday, May 25 – 8 p.m. – ESPN
What to Watch: Chelsea Thomas...
Paul Finebaum Moving to ESPN
The voice of the Southeastern Conference will return to the airwaves on August 1 of this year according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Paul Finebaum will move his radio show to ESPN Radio affiliates primarily in the Southeast and the show will be simulcast on the new SEC Network when it launches in August of 2014...
Searching for Answers: Mysteries of the NCAA Selection Committee
We don’t live in a perfect world. Life isn’t always fair. Not everything makes sense.
We always hear those expressions and many more in everyday life. So it doesn’t really come as a surprise that a group of people tasked with drafting a bracket for the NCAA Championship could screw up said bracket in a few places...
NCAA Softball Bracketology – May 11
Championship Saturday has come to an end and only three more automatic tickets remain to be punched tomorrow when the Big South, Big Ten and Ohio Valley will conclude their respective conference tournaments. As the dust began to settle this afternoon, we decided to update our bracketology one last time before Selection Sunday...
NCAA Softball Bracketology
Selection Sunday is just six days away and the last RPI before the NCAA Tournament field is announced was released today. The lastest RPI gives us the best understanding of where teams will stand in the
This was not a straight up copy of the RPI, but as the selection committee has stuck closer to the RPI in the past several years, we tried to as well...