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The UAB Blazers are the varsity intercollegiate athletic programs of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The school is one of the fourteen member institutions of Conference USA (C-USA) and participates in Division I of the NCAA. The school's men's basketball team plays in 8,508-seat Bartow Arena. The Blazers' colors are forest green and old gold. The men's basketball program has a long history of success spanning several decades. In addition to basketball, UAB also has programs in men's sports for baseball, golf, soccer, and tennis. Women's sports programs include softball, basketball, golf, soccer, bowling, tennis, track and field (indoor and outdoor), cross country, volleyball and sand volleyball. ==Sports teams== A member of Conference USA, the University of Alabama at Birmingham sponsors teams in six men's and twelve women's NCAA sanctioned sports:〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Official Athletic Website of the UAB Blazers )〕 Men's Intercollegiate Sports * Baseball * Basketball (team article) * Cross Country (to be added for 2015) * Football (to return in 2017) (team article) * Golf * Soccer (team article) * Tennis Women's Intercollegiate Sports * Basketball * Beach volleyball * * Bowling * Cross Country * Golf * Rifle * Soccer * Softball * Tennis * Track & Field (Indoor & Outdoor) * Volleyball *NOTE: Beach volleyball is a fully sanctioned NCAA sport which will have its first national championship in the spring of 2016. UAB's team is a member of the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. Note: On December 2, 2014 UAB's president announced the termination of the school's football, bowling, and rifle teams for economic reasons. It was then announced on June 1, 2015 that pledges of additional revenue had been made, allowing the terminated programs to be re-instated. Bowling and rifle will be reinstated immediately. The intent was for the football program to return for the 2016-2017 school year, although it appears that, due to massive transfers from the program and the NCAA's recruiting rules, it might not be possible before the 2017 season, and then only at the BCS level for the first few years. With the termination of the football program, UAB announced the addition men's cross country in order to remain in the NCAA's Division I,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UAB Athletics will add Men's Cross Country for fall 2015 )〕 but, with the return of football, the sport has been dropped from the Blazers' website, although it is still needed to keep Division I eligibility. On June 4, Conference USA announced it would not take any action against UAB now that it has reinstated football, and the school would, in effect, remain in the conference. The conference stated, "At its fall meeting, the Board expects UAB to submit for review a comprehensive plan addressing the key elements of UAB's football program going forward. No additional action from the Board is expected until that time."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=C-USA announces UAB will remain a member of its conference )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「UAB Blazers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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