After a nasty divorce battle that ended last fall, Sara Evans has a new man in her life.
A friend of the country singer confirms to PEOPLE that Evans and Jay Barker, a former football star at the University of Alabama who now hosts a sports radio show in Birmingham, are an item. "They are dating," the friend tells PEOPLE.
Uh... wait a second, Sara Evans is dating a radio DJ??? Seriously. Gee wiz. We should've sent those flowers.... shoot.
"They had been dating for a while, but she hadn't been on the show until then," a friend of Barker's says. "That was the announcement that they were together." Evans (who proudly wore a red Alabama T-shirt to a recent PEOPLE photo shoot) has called in to the show a few times since, and Barker has accompanied Evans on some of her tour dates.
Barker, who as quarterback took Alabama to a national championship in 1992, also went through a divorce last summer. "But I can tell you that Sara had NOTHING to do with Jay's divorce," his friend says.