It’s Wednesday, and there is no joy in Blazerville…

Weather: Better than normal. We may see a passing shower in the afternoon, but otherwise it will be mostly cloudy with a high in the upper 60s. Rain chances are 20 percent. Lows tonight will be near 50. Partly sunny on Thursday, with highs again in the upper 60s.

Left for dead. A Remlap man has been arrested, while another suspect remains at large in a shooting and robbery incident that played out last week. Larry Dale Tolbert was arrested after a Crime Stoppers tip led sheriff’s deputies to find him hiding in a house Monday near Port Birmingham. Tolbert and an accomplice are accused of robbing a Hispanic man on Nov. 23, then shooting him and leaving him for dead on a dead-end road near Jefferson State Community College. Tommy Eugene Reed of Ashville, the alleged accomplice, is still sought by authorities.

Sports: The end. Despite a social-media storm that garnered nationwide attention, the UAB Blazers football program has been shut down. President Ray Watts made the announcement to the team and coaches Tuesday afternoon at the football complex, then had to be escorted out by a phalanx of police after a near-riot broke out among opponents of the move. The announcement came after three days of almost round-the-clock demonstrations on campus, as well as a #SaveUABfootball campaign on Twitter that trended nationally for more than 48 hours. Critics say that the strategic plan which called for the program’s closure was written to fit a preordained conclusion, and that the move was revenge by University of Alabama trustee Paul Bryant Jr. For a longstanding feud between his father, “Bear” Bryant, and UAB coach Gene Bartow, who founded the Blazers athletic department… Not far away, the end also came for Samford coach Pat Sullivan, who announced he was stepping down after battling a series of health issues. Sullivan, the Bulldogs’ winningest coach ever, was a Heisman Trophy winner at Auburn. The search for committee for a replacement will be led by none other than Sullivan himself – a task he’s familiar with after having led a similar effort at his alma mater, where that search resulted in the hiring of Gus Malzahn.