UAB will bring its football program back this fall, and it will do so with some new helmets. In its first life, UAB mostly wore the same helmet design -- a gold lid topped by a black shield with the ...

Derek Slaughter, who played linebacker for three seasons at UAB after transferring from Nebraska, wore his old football helmet to his graduation from the school Saturday. Slaughter tweeted Friday ...

A football player who used to play for UAB before the program was dropped ... Linebacker Derek Slaughter brought his football helmet and carried it with him as he walked across the stage.

Earlier, we shared tweets from UAB linebacker Derek Slaughter, who planned to wear his football helmet during the school’s commencement ceremony to protest the dissolution of the program.

Everything surrounding the shutdown of UAB's football program has been ridiculous ... staged a bit of a silent protest at graduation by wearing his helmet as he accepted his diploma (and refusing ...

The University of Alabama-Birmingham shut down its football program in December, and linebacker Derek Slaughter protested the decision on graduation day by wearing his football helmet as he ...