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Why Chris Moore’s role shifted for Auburn in return from shoulder injury
Chris Moore’s return to the court for Auburn saw the junior take on a somewhat different role. After missing two weeks of action due to a shoulder injury he sustained in the opening minutes against Ole Miss on Jan. 10, Moore returned to the rotation for Auburn during its 79-63 loss to Texas A&M on Wednesday night. Moore, who started each of the first 16 games for the Tigers this season, not only came off the bench against the Aggies, but he served as Auburn’s backup four.
Alabama target and 5-star DB Ellis Robinson IV forecasted to Georgia
Alabama has been able to recruit from one of the country’s premier high schools with great success. Can it begin 2023 with another commitment from a blue-chip prospect via IMG (Fla.) Academy?. Multiple recruiting evaluators have predicted otherwise, forecasting Ellis Robinson IV to the two-time defending champions. Georgia’s first...
Can Auburn make most of ‘incredible opportunity’ to bolster tournament resume over final 11 games?
Hours after Auburn saw its 28-game home winning streak and five-game overall winning streak snapped against Texas A&M, Bruce Pearl joined the Auburn Tip-Off Club for breakfast Thursday morning. At the start of the meeting, Auburn team chaplain Jeremy Napier opened with a prayer from Psalm 23, which contains the...
The biggest recurring issue for Auburn basketball in each of its 4 losses this season
Tyrece Radford may as well have been a ghost. The Texas A&M guard was an unabashed problem for Auburn on Wednesday night, and every made basket and trip to the free-throw line by the 6-foot-2 veteran provided a haunting reminder of one of Auburn’s biggest weaknesses this season. Slowing down high-scoring guards has been a recurring issue for Auburn in each of its losses this season, and Wednesday night’s performance by Radford was just the latest example.
Rob Dauster on Auburn: ‘I think they’re the biggest fraud in the country, honestly’
Texas A&M’s Tyrece Radford scored 30 points and led the Aggies over No. 15 Auburn 79-63 on Wednesday night, ending the nation’s longest active home winning streak at 28 games. With the loss came a discussion about how good Bruce Pearl’s team really is. During Wednesday night’s...
New Orleans Saints sign former Alabama tight end
The players signed by NFL teams to reserve/future contracts in the opening days of the offseason almost invariably ended the regular season on the signing team’s practice squad. For instance, the New Orleans Saints announced on Thursday that former South Alabama wide receiver Kawaan Baker had signed a reserve/future...
Octavia Spencer an ‘Auburn Tiger’ but is her family? ‘What is all this Crimson Tide?’
Octavia Spencer is an Auburn Tiger, through and through, but her family looks a little more crimson these days. While promoting the third season of her Apple TV+ series “Truth Be Told,” Spencer recently appeared on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast where she discussed her successful career in show business as well as her Alabama upbringing.
Briggs & Stratton moving engine-component production to Auburn
Briggs & Stratton is moving its engine-component production to Auburn, according to a Wisconsin television station. The company, the world’s largest producer of gasoline engines for outdoor power equipment, has ceased production at its Wauwatosa, Wisc. plant, resulting in 160 layoffs. According to WTMJ in Milwaukee, the company’s moves...
Miss Alabama USA 2023: Meet 37 women competing for the crown
Thirty-seven women from around the state will compete for the title of Miss Alabama USA 2023 on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 27-28, at the Gogue Performing Arts Center at Auburn University. (See their names and photos in the gallery above.) Tickets are $45-$100 via the Gogue Center website, by phone...
Judge orders Confederate monument removed from Tuskegee amid property dispute
An Alabama judge ordered a Confederate heritage group to remove the Tuskegee monument honoring Confederate soldiers from Macon County after ruling the organization does not have the rights to the property the statue is situated on. The Confederate statue has pained Tuskegee, where 93 percent of the population is Black,...
Perry Hooper ‘personally and professionally ... injured’ by allegations, lawyer says
Former state representative Perry Hooper Jr. “only seeks the truth” with a lawsuit he has filed against Montgomery’s police chief and the city alleging he was set up for an arrest on a sexual abuse charge involving a restaurant hostess. He is asking for a copy of...
‘I’ll get away with it because I am Perry Hooper,’ accuser says he told her
The Montgomery hostess who accused former state Rep. Perry Hooper of sexually abusing her claimed Thursday that he suggested he would get away with the offense because of his stature in Alabama politics. Elizabeth Daly’s statement, issued Thursday through her attorney, Dianne James Davis, also claimed Hooper “betrayed and violated”...
‘This wasn’t an anti-Trump conspiracy’: Lawyer for Perry Hooper Jr.’s alleged victim points to evidence
The lawyer for the alleged victim who claimed former state Rep. Perry Hooper Jr. sexually abused her disputed Hooper’s contention that he was arrested because of his association with Donald Trump. The attorney pointed out that a Montgomery grand jury heard evidence that included video and audio of Hooper...

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