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i think bruce and company can coach him up if he stays. he was used to being the big dawg in high school so i am sure he is kinda shocked maybe? i think he stay. and if we have a great run this year i imagine it would motivate him to stay.

what are baseball game prices?

i might have to watch the whole thing again today. we are getting so much love in the press now! this is the best valentines i have had since i divorced my third wife.......grins

yeah he was ok i just thought you might be interested big shooter.

Folks i do not know about you guys but i am still grinning from the big win last night...............

al.com Verne Lundquist: 2024 Masters will be last broadcast for CBS Updated: Feb. 14, 2024, 5:15 p.m.|Published: Feb. 14, 2024, 5:13 p.m. 2–3 minutes Verne Lundquist, right, was play-by-play voice of the SEC on CBS from 2000-2016. (Courtesy of CBS Sports)CBS Photo By Creg Stephenson | cstephenson@al.com Verne Lundquist has announced that the 2024 Masters will be his final broadcast for CBS Sports. Lundquist, 84, has called a variety of sports for the network in two stints that began in 1982, but is perhaps best known for his work on golf’s signature event. The 2024 Masters, set for April 8-14 at Augusta National, will be his 40th for CBS. Lundquist stepped down from doing college football after the 2016 season and retired from his college basketball work two years later. He was the lead play-by-play for the SEC on CBS college football game of the week from 2000-16. Lundquist came to prominence as a Dallas sportscaster in the 1970s, when he also worked as the radio voice of the NFL’s Cowboys. He joined ABC Sports in 1974, then began his long association with CBS in 1982. Save for a three-year stint at TNT (1995-97), Lundquist has worked continuously for CBS for the last 42 years. He called the Winter Olympics, the NFL and the NBA in addition to his work in golf and college sports. Typically placed in the tower above the 16th green at Augusta National, Lundquist has called some of the biggest moments in golf history, including Jack Nicklaus’ improbable victory at age 46 in 1986 and Tiger Woods’ dramatic chip-in during the final round in 2005. His emphatic “YES SIR!” following Nicklaus’ successful putt on 17 in 1986 became his signature call. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

al.com Projecting Auburn baseball’s starting lineup for the 2024 season Published: Feb. 15, 2024, 6:20 a.m. 7–9 minutes Baseball season is back, with Auburn’s dubbed Opening Day on the Plains set for a 6 p.m. first pitch Friday night at Plainsman Park against Eastern Kentucky. Coming into his ninth season with Auburn, head coach Butch Thompson is taking an Auburn team that hosted an NCAA regional last year and dealing with a significant amount of turnover. It’s a lineup with several new faces and some familiar faces in new places. Here’s a look at how we think Auburn’s starting lineup will shake out to begin the 2024 season. Starting Pitchers Joseph Gonzalez, redshirt junior; Chase Allsup, junior; Carson Myers, junior Auburn has already announced its starting rotation for the opening weekend. So we’ll stick with that here. The biggest news is the return of Joseph Gonzalez. Gonzalez was the best pitcher on a 2022 Auburn team that made it all the way to Omaha. He went 7-4 with a 3.22 ERA. And then he only pitched one game in 2023 due to a shoulder injury. He’s still working back up to full strength and will be the Saturday starter to open the 2024 season. Chase Allsup will start Friday. Allsup started eight games last season out of his 20 total appearances and Auburn is expecting him to take a step forward this season. Allsup had a 5.47 ERA last season and allowed a .273 batting average against him. Allsup’s velocity has been up during the preseason and new pitching coach Everett Teaford is confident in the junior now in his third season with Auburn. Carson Myers will debut with Auburn as the Sunday starter, coming as a transfer from UAB. Myers struck out 70 batters last season in 71.2 innings and started 13 games. He will get the first crack to make an early impression with his new team. Redshirt senior Christian Herberholz is another name to watch as a potential midweek starter or another possible weekend starter option. Catcher Ike Irish, sophomore Auburn’s best player. Simple as that. Irish was a consensus freshman All-American last year after hitting .361 with 50 RBIs and 24 doubles. He had a .546 slugging percentage. Irish is the star of this year’s team and is Auburn’s lone preseason first-team All-SEC selection. First base Cooper McMurray, redshirt junior McMurray is the leading returning home run hitter for Auburn with 14 home runs in 2023, finishing second to the departed Bryson Ware’s 24. McMurray started 41 games last year and is one of several potential options to be at first base. He could also project as a designated hitter. Auburn has tried other options in the preseason like sophomore Gavin Miller at first base, but Thompson will want McMurray’s bat in the lineup however he can get it. Second base Caden Green, senior A senior entering his second season with Auburn after transferring from junior college, Green has played both second and third base during the preseason, flipping around with Deric Fabian. Here, we’ll place him at second base. Green started 48 games last year and didn’t produce much as a hitter — batting .211 — but was a reliable defender with only three errors in 183 opportunities. Third base Deric Fabian, junior The younger brother of former Florida star and current Baltimore Orioles prospect Jud Fabian, Deric Fabian arrived at Auburn this summer as a transfer from Florida. As a freshman, Fabian started 43 games and played in 46. He had a .218 batting average. His playing time decreased as a sophomore to only playing in 22 games and starting 10. Fabian plays both second and third base and will likely play both this season. He’ll slot in here as a third baseman at Auburn where he’ll see a big increase in playing time. A former top-200 high school recruit, Auburn is betting on the talented Fabian taking a big leap forward. There are big shoes to fill taking over the spot from Bryson Ware who was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies. Shortstop Cooper Weiss, graduate student Another position with big shoes to fill that may end up going to a transfer. Weiss may be in line to take over at shortstop from Cole Foster, who like Ware, left Auburn after he was drafted by the San Francisco Giants. Weiss comes to Auburn from Miami (OH) where he was the MAC defensive player of the year last season. Weiss also led his team with a .303 average last season and hit 12 home runs along with 46 RBIs. Auburn is Weiss’ third stop after beginning his college career at Coastal Carolina. He started off his career strong there as a 2020 freshman All-American. But he struggled over the next two seasons before transferring to Miami (OH). After a bounce-back season, he’s back at the top level of college baseball. Left field Mason Maners, senior Maners is another transfer who could be making an immediate impact at Auburn. With Chris Stanfield moving to center field (more on that below), the left field spot is open and several Auburn coaches and players have talked excitedly about Maners during the preseason. Based on Auburn’s scrimmages, he looks set to start. A Vestavia Hills native, Maners spent the last three years at Jacksonville State. He started every game last season and has had a batting average above .330 each of the last two years. Last year, Maners had 75 hits including 12 home runs. He drove in 45 runs and scored 63 runs himself. Center field Chris Stanfield, sophomore One of the most talented young players on this field, Stanfield will move from left field to center field after Kason Howell’s graduation. Last year as a freshman, Stanfield played in 50 games and started 40 of them. He had 46 hits, 22 RBIs, three home runs and two triples in his first SEC season along with a team-high nine steals. His speed is one of his best assets, and could be Auburn’s leadoff hitter this year just as he did last year. Right field Bobby Peirce, graduate student Coming off his best season as a Tiger, Peirce is now one of Auburn’s most experienced leaders. Peirce had a career-best .343 batting average and .411 on-base percentage last season. He also started a career-high 45 games. “To be able to know that guys really respect my opinion and just kind of respect me in general, of what I do and just how I go about my day and carry myself, it means a lot,” Peirce said in early February. “It’s something that I’ve dreamed of, and something that I don’t take for granted, that’s for sure.” Peirce received a preseason All-SEC second-team selection. Designated hitter Javon Hernandez, senior Auburn didn’t bring in the high-average hitter as a transfer to not put him in the starting lineup. The Connecticut native hit .373 as a freshman in junior college at UConn Avery Point. As a sophomore there, Hernandez hit .462. He transferred up to Division I playing with Jacksonville State and continued to hit, leading the Atlantic Sun Conference with a .397 average. Hernandez projects as a second baseman with Auburn and he will likely see time there. He played there during Auburn’s preseason team scrimmages. But it seems like Green will be the starter in the field, leaving Hernandez to hit near the top of Auburn’s lineup as a designated hitter. Matt Cohen covers Auburn sports for AL.com. You can follow him on X at @Matt_Cohen_ or email him at mcohen@al.com If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. 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al.com Report: Auburn’s Hugh Freeze to hire Kenyatta Watson as director of recruiting research Updated: Feb. 14, 2024, 2:00 p.m.|Published: Feb. 14, 2024, 1:58 p.m. 2–3 minutes Hugh Freeze is expected to make another addition to Auburn’s staff, this time adding Kenyatta Watson as Auburn’s director of recruiting research and strategy. CBS Sports’ Carl Reed Jr. was the first to report the news Thursday. The hiring of Watson will come after he spent the past two seasons as Georgia Tech’s director of scouting and pro liaison. According to his profile on Georgia Tech’s website, Watson was “heavily involved in the Yellow Jackets’ recruiting efforts, evaluating both high school student-athletes and those that have entered the NCAA Transfer Portal.” Watson also oversaw the relationships between Georgia Tech and pro scouts. The report of Watson’s addition comes on the heels of Freeze having already beefed up Auburn’s recruiting staff with the additions of Will Redmond in a general manager-like role, as well as TJ Randall in a player personnel and scouting role. Prior to his time at Georgia Tech, Watson spent nine months at Florida State, where he served as the Seminoles’ director of player relations. With the expected addition of Watson, Auburn’s program is getting a well-known name the Atlanta area as Watson previously spent a decade developing players there. From 2014-18, Watson served as director of football operations and recruiting for Grayson High School in Logansville, Ga. During his time at Grayson, Watson helped nearly 120 student-athletes earn college scholarships. A native of Deerfield Beach, Fla., Watson spent his playing career as a wide receiver at Boston College from 1993-96. Watson’s son, Kenyatta Watson II, is currently a defensive back at Georgia Tech. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

al.com Bo Jackson joins Auburn's student section for big SEC matchup vs. No. 11 South Carolina Updated: Feb. 14, 2024, 8:51 p.m.|Published: Feb. 14, 2024, 8:38 p.m. ~2 minutes Auburn Football Auburn legend Bo Jackson joins Hugh Freeze in The Jungle for Auburn’s game vs. South Carolina Former Auburn running back, and 1985 Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson returned to his alma mater Wednesday night as the 13th-ranked Auburn’s men’s basketball team hosted the 11th-ranked South Carolina Gamecocks in a key SEC matchup. Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl didn’t mince words ahead of Wednesday’s date with South Carolina. “If we want to win the (SEC) championship, we have to beat South Carolina tomorrow,” Pearl said Tuesday. “Pretty simple.” Fortunately for Auburn, the Tigers were playing the game at Neville Arena, where they entered the night 12-0 on the season. And against South Carolina, Jackson decided he wanted to be part of the Neville Arena magic and joined Auburn’s student section, affectionately known as The Jungle, for the first half of Wednesday night’s game. Auburn head football coach Hugh Freeze was also site for Wednesday night’s game and joined Jackson in The Jungle for much of the opening half. Together, while cheering for the Tigers, Freeze and Jackson took countless selfies with fans as Auburn sprinted out to a 50-28 halftime lead over South Carolina. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

al.com 3 takeaways from No. 13 Auburn’s 101-61 rout of first place, No. 11 South Carolina Updated: Feb. 14, 2024, 9:49 p.m.|Published: Feb. 14, 2024, 9:35 p.m. 5–6 minutes AUBURN, AL - FEBRUARY 14 - Auburn's Jaylin Williams (2) during the game between the #13 Auburn Tigers and the #11 South Carolina Gamecocks at Neville Arena in Auburn, AL on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. Photo by Zach Bland/Auburn TigersZach Bland/Auburn Tigers In maybe the most important game to-date at Neville Arena — and probably the most important game Auburn has played against South Carolina — with regard to No. 13 Auburn’s SEC title chase, head coach Bruce Pearl’s team annihilated No. 11 South Carolina 101-61. The goal in this one was simple: Auburn (20-5, 9-3 SEC) win to keep pace in the SEC standings. Lose to South Carolina, which was tied for first in the SEC? Auburn would fall two games back with six to play. That would be a very difficult margin to make up. Instead, Auburn blew past another team on its home court. Auburn scored more points than anyone has against South Carolina this year. And it hit that milestone with about six minutes still to play. Here are three takeaways. It’s really, really tough to beat Auburn in Neville Arena Auburn is a perfect 13-0 in this building in the 2023-24 season, each win decided by double-digits. What Auburn has done consistently at Neville Arena is go on a run in the first half to pull away from its opponent and build out to a lead at halftime, while cruising through the second half. South Carolina got out to a five-point lead over Auburn in the first three minutes of the game. Auburn went on to outscore South Carolina 43-19 for the rest of the first half. Auburn has gone on dominant first half stretches like this against both the best and worst teams it has played in this building. Only Texas A&M — which matches up well against Auburn due to its elite rebounding — has been able to give Auburn a competitive game here. Auburn’s home court mastery has seen them has beat Virginia Tech by 17, Texas A&M by 11, Ole Miss by 23, Alabama by 18 and now South Carolina by 40. Winning on the road anywhere is tough, but it’s been near impossible for visiting teams in Neville Arena this season. Auburn has only lost twice in this building over the last three seasons. In a crucial game, Auburn keeps pace in the SEC standings Auburn has never been further than a game out of first place in the SEC this season. Auburn’s two straight January losses to Alabama and Mississippi State moved Auburn from first place to a game behind Alabama and South Carolina. When Auburn beat Alabama last week, it jumped back into a tie for first place. It fell right back to a game behind when it beat Florida. One of the two teams ahead of Auburn in the standings was South Carolina. This being the only matchup between the two this season, that made this a must-win game. Alabama is now alone at the top of the SEC standings, a game ahead of Auburn, South Carolina and Tennessee. All Auburn could do to keep pace in the standings was win. Mission accomplished. Now the attention turns to the second challenge of two ranked matchups this week: Kentucky visiting Neville Arena. Johni Broome and Jaylin Williams are the best frontcourt duo in the SEC Williams has now had eight 20-point performances this season. He’s scoring more than 13 points per game this season, by far the numbers of his career. He’s improved his rebounding numbers and his free throw percentage from last season. He’s having easily the best 3-point shooting season of his career. He’s transformed into a star for Auburn and its best option after Johni Broome. On several nights season, Williams has been Auburn’s best option, period. End of sentence. On this night, it was both Williams and Broome. Williams had a dominant first half against South Carolina scoring 16 points and going 4-5 on 3-pointers. He finished the game with 23 points making five-out-of-seven 3-pointers. That was coupled with Broome going a career-best 4-5 on 3-pointers on a stellar shooting night from Auburn’s starting big men — combining to go 9-12 from deep. K.D. Johnson was the only Auburn guard to make a 3. Broome has now made a 3-pointer in eight straight games. For an Auburn team that wants to play five-out offense, a proven ability to space the floor with its big men goes a long way. Matt Cohen covers Auburn sports for AL.com. You can follow him on X at @Matt_Cohen_ or email him at mcohen@al.com If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

al.com The 3 key stats from No. 13 Auburn’s 40-point win over No. 11 South Carolina Published: Feb. 15, 2024, 7:43 a.m. 4–5 minutes AUBURN, AL - FEBRUARY 14 - Auburn’s Chaney Johnson (31) and Auburn’s Chad Baker-Mazara (10) during the game between the #13 Auburn Tigers and the #11 South Carolina Gamecocks at Neville Arena in Auburn, AL on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. Photo by Zach Bland/Auburn TigersZach Bland/Auburn Tigers In a game Auburn had to have in its hope to win the SEC, No. 13 Auburn drubbed No. 11 South Carolina 101-61 on Wednesday night at Neville Arena. In a season where Auburn (20-5, 9-3) has been so dominant — the Tigers have the seventh-best scoring margin in America winning by an average of 16.2 points per game — this may have been head coach Bruce Pearl’s team’s most convincing performance. And it came against the first-place team in the SEC. It allowed Auburn to keep pace in the SEC standings, one game behind Alabama which now sits alone in first place because of Auburn’s win over South Carolina. Below are some of the key stats that made up Auburn’s blowout win. Bench points Auburn has one of the deepest rosters in America. It bench scores an average of 35.76 points per game — the fourth most of any group in the country. Auburn’s bench scored 39 points against South Carolina. South Carolina’s bench scored one. Auburn did not allow a single made field goal to anyone on South Carolina’s bench. South Carolina’s bench normally averages around 20 points per game. Nor did any of Auburn’s bench points come from any one player. Chad Baker-Mazara had 10 points, K.D. Johnson had nine, Dylan Cardwell had eight and Chaney Johnson had six. Aden Holloway, Lior Berman and Jalen Harper each had two points off the bench. “We had a couple guys that were quieter tonight,” Pearl said. “That’s fine. That’s why our depth obviously matters.” Assist-to-turnover ratio Auburn had 15 more assists (22) than it had turnovers (7). South Carolina had eight more turnovers (13) than it had assists (5). That’s a huge difference, and is in many ways emblematic of how Auburn has played this season. Auburn is top 10 nationally so far in assist-to-turnover ratio. Neither of Auburn’s two point guards — Tre Donaldson and Holloway — had a turnover. Not only did Auburn take care of the ball, it also took advantage of its opportunities off turnovers. Auburn had 25 points off the 13 South Carolina turnovers. South Carolina had eight points off the seven Auburn turnovers. 3-point shooting First, Auburn’s best 3-point shooters Wednesday were, well, it’s big men — who are apparently referring to themselves as the “Splash Bros” now. Broome and Williams combined to shoot 9-12 from deep. Williams has been a better 3-point shooter throughout this season, while Broome has been working to add that to his game. And maybe — well, definitely — Auburn isn’t going to get nine makes on 3-point shots from its front court every night, but the threat Auburn’s big men can hit those shots changes how defenses can play Auburn. “That makes you hard to guard,” Pearl said. “It makes you hard to guard because what do you do? If you don’t switch, we’re going to get those shots. And if you do switch, we’re going to have mismatches on the inside. It’s not rocket science.” K.D. Johnson was the only Auburn guard to make a 3-pointer in the win. Donaldson didn’t even attempt one. Auburn didn’t need its guards to produce much shooting when the big men had the hot hand. But it goes to show that it’s a night that could have been even better. For the whole game, Auburn made 12 3s and South Carolina made 3. That’s a 27-point difference just purely on 3-point shooting. It’s another huge margin in a blowout win. Auburn’s shooting as a whole was just much better than South Carolina’s. It must be to create a 40-point margin. Auburn shot a blistering 61% from the field while holding South Carolina to 35%. Matt Cohen covers Auburn sports for AL.com. You can follow him on X at @Matt_Cohen_ or email him at mcohen@al.com If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

al.com Meet the ‘Splash Bros’: How Auburn’s frontcourt earned a new nickname vs. South Carolina Published: Feb. 15, 2024, 6:19 a.m. 4–5 minutes AUBURN, AL - FEBRUARY 14 - Auburn's Johni Broome (4) during the game between the #13 Auburn Tigers and the #11 South Carolina Gamecocks at Neville Arena in Auburn, AL on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. Photo by Zach Bland/Auburn TigersZach Bland/Auburn Tigers It didn’t take Johni Broome and Jaylin Williams long to come up with it. “You want me to tell them our nickname?,” Broome asked Williams during their postgame press conference Wednesday night. Instead, the tandem agreed they’d both reveal their nickname on the count of three. “One... two... three... Splash Bros,” they both said, causing Auburn’s media room to erupt with laughter. While the tandem’s nickname wasn’t the most original considering it’s already been claimed by Golden State Warriors’ guards Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, it certainly fit Broome and Williams’ performances on Wednesday night as they led No. 13 Auburn to a lopsided 101-61 win over No. 11 South Carolina from Auburn’s Neville Arena. Together, Broome and Williams, who make up Auburn’s starting frontcourt, combined for 44 points against South Carolina. And while it would generally be safe to assume the Tigers’ pair of big men scored a majority of those points in the paint, such wasn’t the case Wednesday night. Against the Gamecocks, Broome and Williams combined for nine 3-pointers after a 5-for-7 3-point shooting effort from Williams and a 4-for-5 3-point shooting effort from Broome, which was the first time in his career he hit four 3-pointers in one game. “They were kinda giving us a little bit of space. It was that point where you shoot it or pass it,” Broome said of he and Williams’ success from behind the arc against the Gamecocks. “It’s kinda awkward: You’re open, but you’re not really open. But once you see the first one go in, you get that confidence, and you get your coaches and teammates’ confidence going. It was just going to the hot hand and just making plays to help win the game.” Against South Carolina, the hot hands of Broome and Williams definitely played a major role in helping Auburn pick apart the Gamecocks, who entered the night sitting atop the SEC standings. Also scoring from beyond the arc for the Tigers was KD Johnson and Chaney Johnson, who added three makes from deep to bring Auburn’s tally to 12 made 3-pointers. Meanwhile, South Carolina went just 3-for-15 from beyond the 3-point line. “They were really good and we weren’t that good. That’s what happens when you have that combination,” South Carolina head coach Lamont Paris said. “They played really well. They generated some good shots — sometimes on their own, sometimes on some errors that we made. But they went in. Those shots went in.” The Tigers hit 61% of the time from the 3-pont line on Wednesday night and 60% of the time from the field — two efficient marks that made for season-highs. “When you’ve got nine 3-balls from your starting front court, it kinda makes everything you might try to do offensively work, right?,” Pearl said. “That makes you hard to guard. It makes you hard to guard because what do you do? If you don’t switch, we’re going to get those shots. And if you do switch, we’re going to have mismatches on the inside. It’s not rocket science.” The shooting efficiency of Auburn’s frontcourt played a major role in what Pearl painted to be a must-win for the Tigers earlier this week, should they want to compete for the SEC regular season title. And while Auburn secured that win in lopsided fashion Wednesday night, there was a small drawback. “There are picks and rolls and there are picks and pops. And now after Johni popped a few, I’m never going to get him to roll (inside to the basket),” Pearl joked. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

He discusses Auburn Basketball first....

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i know you guys do and i appreciate it very much. i am fine about my health i am just a worrier until i get past it or whatever.i am sure some people do not get it. it is just a love of auburn and her people. i had a ball last night in fact. thank you for your kindness big shooter.

just keeping my mind off my worries. i do however try to give something back to auburn fans and since i am a man of meager means this is how i do it.and if folks come here to read the news or what i can find it keeps the board busy they like to not have to search stuff out. thanks for noticing.