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al.com Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Lauren Boebert on House floor: ‘You’ve been nothing but a little bitch’ Published: Jun. 22, 2023, 7:55 a.m. ~3 minutes By Brian Niemietz New York Daily News (TNS) Tribune Media Services Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene reportedly called her colleague Lauren Boebert a “little bitch” on the House floor Wednesday. The performative lawmakers from Georgia and Colorado, respectively, were involved in what appeared to be a tense exchange when the Daily Beast said the harsh verbiage occurred. “I’ve donated to you, I’ve defended you,” Greene reportedly said. “But you’ve been nothing but a little bitch to me.” Their conflict reportedly ended with Boebert telling Green they were “through,” with the Georgia lawmaker snapping back, “We were never together.” The pair infamously teamed up to heckle President Biden during his 2022 State of the Union Address on national TV, but have reportedly had their differences since, including a January brouhaha in a U.S. Capitol bathroom. They butted heads Wednesday over their competing efforts to remove the commander-in-chief from office. Both women, who are Donald Trump-obsessed election deniers, called for Biden’s impeachment this week. Greene did so during a patently unhinged performance on Fox News Sunday, while Boebert introduced a resolution Tuesday claiming Biden’s management of the migrant situation at the Mexico border merits dismissal from the office to which he was elected in 2020. Greene reportedly accused her colleague of undercutting and parroting her efforts to unseat the president. Neither woman denied the Daily Beast’s characterization of the language used during Wednesday’s spat. In fact, Greene seemingly doubled down on her claims against Boebert when contacted for comment. “Imitation is the greatest form of flattery,” she told the publication Meanwhile, Boebert said “Marjorie is not my enemy,” telling the Daily Beast she wanted to instead focus on her issues with the Biden White House. Multiple sources reportedly heard Greene call Boebert a “bitch.” Only one witness confirmed hearing the word “little” used.

this is why i love reddit. they have a huge auburn fan base on there and you can pick your poison. some kid was renting on e. glenn ave which is the street my grandparents lived on so i get a kick pouy of those things. grins i know i need to get out more..........

yahoo.com Kerryon Johnson named University of North Alabama’s director of player personnel JD McCarthy ~2 minutes Former Auburn running back Kerryon Johnson has been named the University of North Alabama’s director of player personnel, UNA’s head coach Brent Dearmon announced the move Thursday night. Johnson is from Madison, Alabama and the move marks his return to football after his NFL career ended in 2021. Johnson starred at Auburn from 2015-17 and rushed for 2,494 yards and 32 touchdowns Auburn. He was named the 2017 SEC Offensive Player of the Year after rushing for 1,391 yards and 18 touchdowns as a junior, leading the Tigers to a 10-4 record and an SEC West title. Johnson was then drafted by the Detroit Lions in the second round of the 2017 NFL Draft. He made 14 starts across his first two seasons and rushed for 1,044 yards and six touchdowns but was plagued by injuries. His final appearance came in the 2021 season with the San Francisco 49ers. The move will reunite him with college teammate Deshaun Davis, who coaches linebackers for UNA. More Football! Auburn offers 3-star tight end Gavin Hoffman A nine win season for Auburn is 'within reach' says one expert In-state safety Rydarrius Morgan puts Auburn in top 6 Auburn Tigers Snapshot Profile: No. 9 Eugene Asante Contact/Follow us @TheAuburnWire on Twitter, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Auburn news, notes, and opinion. You can also follow JD on Twitter @jdmccarthy15 Story originally appeared on Auburn Wire

any? i sure miss a couple of folks but i understand honor. my thoughts are no coach is bigger than auburn. not ever. i could never stop being a fan. and this is not a post meant to start an argument. it is a new day. we have new hope. we have already seen some remarkable changes in recruiting alone. this will probably get deleted but i was wondering how many if any have come back around? i am also typing this because i have to do some house cleaning...............

i have to admit i agree with you two in this. i wonder if this hurts or helps the white kids being home schooled? i know several families that do it or did. some graduated. i just know there is a lot of room but playing hooky so to speak. but the folks i knew did well.

well hell i was on the wrong thread and still made some sense....................grins

i look for huge improvement for the receivers. we were really bad last year. our oline coach is rated the number ten coach in the country for his postition.we got stocked up some so i believe we will be way better than some people might think. and one of the articles i posted this week says we are stocked on the dline. i think we upgrade at qb with the new guy or a new and improved robby. folks are already saying we have one of the best rb rooms in the country. we got that new frosh coming in,and again, with an improved line i expect bigger and better holes to run through. i think we are loaded in the secondary. now can these guys put it together with this new system? i have no idea. that is a worry. on the flip side of that is i am not sure the opposing coaches know what to expect. i also think coach wants to get back to the top and prove he is a great coach that made a mistake. i am excited because i know we are heading in the right direction now. i know nothing about our strength and conditioning so i hope he is top shelf.

amp.foxsports.com The Ten Dumbest Fan Bases in America: #1 The Alabama Crimson Tide By foxsports 6–8 minutes Published October 29, 2013 The Alabama Crimson Tide fan base is the dumbest in the country and there isn't a close second. Alabama's fan base stupidity is not a function of a small minority of bad apples ruining it for the rest of the fans, nope, it's the majority of the fan base that gives Alabama fans a bad name. Let's be clear about this, Harvey Updyke was not an outlier. When news broke that authorities had arrested a man for poisoning the trees at Auburn, millions of Alabama fans secretly thought to themselves, "God, I hope it's not Uncle Ray." That's because Harvey Updyke could have easily been in many Bama families. Easily. Alabama fans are so dumb that every single other SEC fan base thinks, "Damn, you Bama fans are really stupid." Kentucky fans are like, "These Bama fans need to get their lives in order." The Alabama fan base is a fractious mix of two distinct groups who can't really stand each other. At the top of the list is the 10-15% of the fan base that could actually be admitted to Alabama or attended the school. This group hates most of the rest of the Alabama fan base with a passionate fury. Right now they are reading this column and silently nodding. The other 85% of Bama fans are incapable of coherent thought and have a deep-seated insecurity about all things in life. Alabama football comprises, and this is not an exaggeration, 99% of their self esteem. This group of Alabama fans resents those who actually attended the school and calls them, "elitists." (To be an "elitist" in Alabama you have to graduate high school, avoid having kids until you're 22, and shop at Target instead of Wal-Mart. Seriously, that's an Alabama elitist.). Auburn fans, a distinct minority in the state, are really nothing like Alabama fans. That's because by and large Auburn fans are associated in some way with Auburn. 95% of the idiots in Alabama root for the Crimson Tide. These fans are the ones who wear the, "Got (insert made up national title numbers here) t-shirts," and call into Paul Finebaum's radio show. The irony of Nick Saban's Alabama success is that the University of Alabama can't even find enough smart kids to enroll at the school anymore. Over half of Bama's entering freshman class last year came from outside the state. The real reason that Nick Saban's so mad at the student section -- lots of them don't even care that much about Alabama football. Sure, it's fun, but they aren't likely to get a misspelled tattoo on their arm supporting the Crimson Tide like the majority of the fan base is. That's because Alabama fans think differently than most of us. That is, they think backwards. For instance, these idiot Bama fans would rather have a genius football coach who is arrogant as hell, but they insist on electing a President that they can have a beer with. Obama's elitist, but Nick Saban? Hell, Nick Saban's a football coach, he's got more important things to do than worry about whether fans like him! If Nick Saban was on Twitter -- God this would be amazing if he Tweeted what he really thought -- and he stepped in dog crap on Tuscaloosa's campus, he could take to Twitter and Tweet, "If a thousand Alabama fans don't show up and lick this dog s*** off my shoe, I'm leaving town." Ten thousand of more Bama fans would immediately show up to dutifully stand in line for hours to lick the dog s*** off Nick Saban's shoe. This is not hyperbole. Even Nick Saban hates Alabama fans. What's the dumbest stereotypical Bama fan like in his element? He's a 38 year old grandfather and he owns fourteen shirts, thirteen of which have to do with Alabama football's mythical national titles. An important aspect of his life is that everyone must know that Alabama is his favorite team at every moment of his life. His truck, his trailer, his clothing, his animals, his arm, his parole papers -- all of them must include a reference to his Alabama fandom. To not do this would be unacceptable. When he was 19 he got a 14 year old pregnant, married her, and then got another, different, 14 year old pregnant and subsequently got divorced. Then he got a third 14 year old pregnant and there was only one appropriate way to celebrate this accomplishment while simultaneously combining it with his love for Bama football. His tailgate was his canvas. Despite dropping out of school of his own volition at the age of 16 he blames, "the Mexicans and Mike Shula," for everything that has gone wrong in his life for the past twenty years. He spent the Mike Shula era in prison for passing bad checks at Mexican restaurants -- at his trial he said, "I wish they'd go back to their country, but leave their burritos," -- but he still felt compelled to send Shula fan letters from prison. Every single letter began with, "Hey looser," and ended with "your gay." His proudest moment in the past fifteen years was when he was best man at his son's shotgun wedding outside Bama's stadium before the 2013 spring game. He "made it classy" by convincing his son to wear a houndstooth hat. The wedding was doubly powerful because he had conceived the same son while wearing this same Stabler jersey and having sex with the third 14 year old in a Tuscaloosa Waffle House bathroom. The circle of Bama fan life. One of his other sons married a tattoo parlor chick and they got their picture taken for the family Christmas card. That son wore his awesome new Alabama swag t-shirt. Their fifth child was a football. Even the family dog of the "smart son" can't escape having a favorite football team. The "smart son" graduated from high school at the age of 20 and now lives in Birmingham where he plays in a band and "acts all uppity." By "acts all uppity," they mean, "doesn't live in a trailer." If y'all want to judge him, y'all can all go to hell and "kiss the rings." He doesn't mean literally kiss the rings since he pawned each of his wedding rings and sold platelets to go watch the latest Alabama-Auburn game. Roll Tide, Roll, bitches. Home sweet home. By the way, he just claimed another national title for this #1 dumbest fan base ranking. He would travel to Tennessee to shake my hand in person if it wasn't a parole violation to do so. this is an oldie but goodie.........pure gold!

we agree on something.

yahoo.com LSU football vacates all wins from 2012-2015, Les Miles now ineligible for CFB Hall of Fame Christina Huang·Staff writer 3–4 minutes Les Miles is no longer eligible for enshrinement in the College Football Hall of Fame after being forced to vacate 37 career wins. (Greg McWilliams/Getty Images) LSU has vacated all of its football wins from 2012-2015 after a review of violations from the NCAA's Independent Accountability Resolution Panel (IARP). The Tigers are vacating 37 wins, including two bowl games, because former offensive lineman Vadal Alexander was ineligible for his entire college career. Since LSU vacated 37 wins under the Les Miles era, Miles is no longer eligible for the College Football Hall of Fame. Prior to the penalty, Miles' record as a head coach was 145-73 (.665). His official record is now 108-73 (.597). Candidates for the CFB Hall of Fame must have a minimum of a .600 career win percentage to be eligible for induction. Miles last coached Kansas in the 2019-2020 season, before he was let go due to allegations of inappropriate conduct from his time at LSU. LSU self-imposed the penalty back in 2022, but it was confidential until the ruling was finalized Thursday. LSU also self-imposed scholarship reductions, losing eight football scholarships and two men's basketball scholarships. Alexander was deemed ineligible because his father received $180,150 in embezzled funds from John Paul Funes, former head of the Our Lady of the Lake Foundation. Funes pleaded guilty to embezzlement charges in 2019 after being accused of misusing nearly $800,000 from the Our Lady of the Lake hospital system's fundraising system. Funes offered Alexander's mother a job at an OLOL hospital and his father a position at the foundation. The incident was considered a Level I violation. The NCAA also punished LSU alum Odell Beckham, banning the NFL star wideout from the Tigers' facility for two years for handing out cash on the sideline during the national championship game in 2020. Odell Beckham Jr. celebrates after LSU beat Clemson Tigers in the College Football Playoff national championship game in New Orleans. (Chuck Cook/USA TODAY Sports) LSU football is currently on probation due to recruiting violations committed by former offensive line coach James Cregg. The program's probation will be under three more years of probation starting in September, due to the IARP ruling. All IARP decisions are final. LSU men's basketball will also serve three years of probation due to the IARP ruling. Former LSU men's basketball head coach Will Wade, now the head coach at McNeese State, was also handed a 10-game suspension and two-year show-cause order. "We are pleased that our current men’s basketball student-athletes will not be punished for the acts of others and that the Independent Resolution Panel accepted our self-imposed penalties for football," LSU president William Tate IV and athletic director Scott Woodward said in a statement. "We are grateful to the members of the panel for their time and fairness. LSU is now moving forward along with our passionate fans supporting our current coaches and student-athletes in both men’s basketball and football."

si.com Why Connor Lew will break out for Auburn football in 2023 Joshua Collins 2–3 minutes Could Connor Lew be the breakout freshman performer for Auburn football’s offense in 2023? Playing another round of our predictive series, who will be a breakout performer for Auburn in 2023, this time with a focus on the newly added freshman talent, we ask once more who can rise to the occasion and be a breakout performer in 2023? Of the 19 enrollees currently on campus seven of them are offensive players, all of whom possess the talent to be breakout performers, yet I would place my wager on the interior offensive lineman Connor Lew being the breakout freshman performer for the Auburn Tigers in the upcoming 2023 season. The 6-foot-3 290-pound freshman offensive lineman comes to us from Kennesaw Mountain High School, in Kennesaw, GA. This versatile young man is capable of playing both center and guard, when necessary, as he displayed during his Spring A-Day performance, lining up with the 2s at center and subsequently stepping in for Tate Johnson at guard after his injury. Being the obvious choice to replace Avery Jones at center once that young man has moved on from his collegiate career, I imagine the coaching staff will look to get Connor active in the rotation as quickly as possible to make sure the young man is developed and ready to perform consistently at the SEC level during his sophomore year. Lew has a solid and quick first step with an amazing amount of upper body strength to size up with the mass majority of the SEC-level defensive linemen he will most certainly face across the trenches. I feel that given the frequency of injuries across the offensive line as the season progresses, I see the likelihood of seeing Connor lining up with the 1s being extremely high. This in concert with the numerous compliments made about his performance since his being on campus from both coaches, staff, and players is why I would place my bets on Connor Lew being the breakout freshman offensive performer for Auburn football this upcoming 2023 season.

sandmountainreporter.com BECK: Alabama, Auburn offensive success hinges on supporting cast, not just the quarterbacks TAYLOR BECK 6–7 minutes Unless you live under a rock, you’ve heard the quarterback situation at Alabama and Auburn is a long way from being decided. For the Tide, redshirt sophomore Jalen Milroe and redshirt freshman Ty Simpson are now battling Notre Dame transfer Tyler Buchner for the starting job. Most “insiders” tend to give Buchner the edge due to his familiarity with new offensive coordinator Tommy Rees’ system, who also hails from Notre Dame, and the potential he’s shown. Plus, he has three years of eligibility. Last season, he entered the year as the Fighting Irish’s No. 1 QB but got injured in the second game. Buchner was able to return for the Gator Bowl and shined in a 45-38 win over South Carolina, accounting for five TDs. As Buchner may seem locked in, I wouldn’t throw away the key just yet. Milroe has some starting experience, as well as elite athleticism that could be showcased in a plethora of ways, and Simpson has tremendous arm talent. Whoever can demonstrate the most maturity and make the best in-game decisions (à la no turnovers) will win the job. Down on The Plains, another quarterback battle is ongoing. Offensive-minded first-year head coach Hugh Freeze will have to decide between returning starter sophomore Robby Ashford, redshirt freshman Holden Geriner and the junior Michigan State transfer Payton Thorne. Although Ashford showed much improvement over the course of nine starts last season, national opinions are right to view Thorne as the likely Week 1 starter, if not for the entire season. In three seasons with the Spartans, Thorne was 16-10 over 26 starts. Thorne left Michigan State ranked among the school’s career leaders in passing TDs (fourth with 49), completion percentage (fifth at .609), passing yards (sixth with 6,494), pass completions (sixth with 524), pass attempts (sixth with 860) and passing efficiency (eighth with 137.6 rating). He was a team captain for the 2021 and 2022 seasons. No matter who starts at quarterback for the Tide and Tigers this season, their success will hinge on the players they’re surrounded by. And while several position groups appear to look good on paper, can they put it all together? Something that hasn’t been questioned this offseason is the running back position. Alabama and Auburn each have a stable of ball carriers ready to flourish. For the Tigers, Jarquez Hunter is primed to make a big jump this season behind what’s expected to be a much better offensive line (more on that later) as the No. 1 option. Last season, Hunter rushed for 675 yards and 7 TDs, averaging 6.5 yards per carry behind former starter Tank Bigsby. He also tallied 224 receiving yards and 2 TDs through the air. Hunter is arguably one of the best playmakers returning in the SEC and could be a dark horse Heisman candidate. If not for Quinshon Judkins of Ole Miss, I would say there is no argument. Alabama brings back a duo of talented backs in Jase McClellan and Roydell Williams. McClellan tallied 655 yards rushing, 174 yards receiving and 10 total TDs in 2022 as the second-string running back. But here’s another name to remember: true freshman Justice Haynes. At wide receiver, the story is virtually identical for the rival schools: The position group is deep, full of talent and experience, but can they put it all together and help their QB (whoever it may be) succeed? The Tide brings back starters Jermaine Burton and Ja’Corey Brooks, as well as contributors Isaiah Bond, Kobe Prentice and Kendrick Law. However, incoming junior transfer (No. 1 JUCO prospect) Malik Benson – a speedster who shined in the spring game with five catches, 70 yards and a TD – is expected to make an immediate impact. But, who will step up to be a consistent, reliable target for QB1 this season? It seemed like no one wanted to a year ago. Ja’Varrius Johnson and Koy Moore return as Auburn’s leading receivers from a year ago, which isn’t saying much. But the Tigers have added a lot of talent through the transfer portal this spring, including Jackson State wide receiver Shane “Hollywood” Hooks, which should provide an instant boost to the unit. Hooks, listed at 6-foot-4, 205 pounds, caught more touchdowns last year (10) than all of Auburn’s wide receivers combined. Also added through the transfer portal are Jyaire Shorter (North Texas), Caleb Burton III (Ohio State) and Nick Mardner (Cincinnati) – all of whom should make an immediate impact. Finally, and maybe most importantly, is the offensive line, which appears to have been reshuffled based on reports. For Auburn, the offensive line will likely be led by mostly transfers. The Tigers added eight offensive linemen for the upcoming season (the most in a single cycle since Gene Chizik signed seven in 2012), landing four high school signees, a top-rated junior college prospect in Izavion Miller and a trio of plug-and-play transfers: offensive tackles Dillon Wade (Tulsa) and Gunner Britton (Western Kentucky) and center Avery Jones (Eastern Carolina). As of this writing, reports indicate Jones has assumed the first-team job at center in a group that also includes Wade at left tackle and Britton at right tackle. Unlike the Tigers, Alabama returns four starters from last year’s offensive line group, but a constant criticism was the lack of consistency in pass protection and run blocking. This offseason, reports indicate the line will be retooled to fit a run-first, “smash-mouth” style of play likened to the days of old. Returners with starting experience include Seth McLaughlin, Darrian Dalcourt, JC Latham and Tyler Booker. The program’s top offensive line recruit for the last cycle was five-star tackle Kadyn Proctor. This could be the starting group with returning reserve Elijah Pritchett getting time at tackle. i hate when they combine auburn and bama articles. i still post it because it has auburn news.

247sports.com Most Valuable Tigers No 24 Nathan King 5–6 minutes We're still in the heart of the college football offseason, more than two weeks removed from spring practice, media days still a month away, and more than two months until the start of the 2023 season, Auburn’s first under Hugh Freeze. So what better time to crank up the rankings? As we do annually this time of year, Auburn Undercover is counting down the top 25 most valuable players for the Tigers' 2023 season. A few notes to set the table: These rankings are based on a player's previous contributions to the team, as well as his assumed impact in 2023 — how important he is expected to be to Auburn's success in both production and the win-loss column. It is not simply Auburn's best players in descending order. If a freshman is included on the list, his positioning is obviously a projection of his talent and significance to his respective position group. Next up in our top 25 is Maryland transfer defensive lineman Mosiah Nasili-Kite. AS A RECRUIT Hometown: Pittsburg, California Class: 2020 (JUCO) 247Sports ranking: No. 16 SDE, No. 96 overall (JUCO) (Jason Caldwell, 247Sports) AS A PLAYER A California native, Nasili-Kite began his career at Washington, where he didn't see the field as a true freshman, then on the JUCO level before joining the Terps in 2020. At 6-foot-2 and 310 pounds, he quickly emerged as a starter on the interior defensive line and was one of the most experienced Power Five defensive linemen when he entered the portal New Year's Day. Nasili-Kite started 22 games at Maryland and appeared in every game over the past three seasons. His 2021 season was his most productive, racking up seven tackles for loss, four sacks and two batted passes. In 2022, he had 2.5 TFLs, one sack and a fumble recovery. Nasili-Kite was mostly an interior player at Maryland, but he possessed the athleticism to kick outside to defensive end for a few snaps per game, as well. He also was able to play nose tackle in a pinch. He finished this past season No. 2 at Maryland in quarterback hurries and No. 4 in pressures. In early January, Nasili-Kite was the fifth transfer pickup for Freeze and company, helping to replenish a defensive line room that was, at the time, thin on proven depth heading into the 2023 season, after a blend of NFL draft declarations, exhausted eligibility and transfers. 2023 OUTLOOK Nasil-Kite represents exactly what the Tigers needed from the transfer ranks: a veteran to complement returning starter Marcus Harris. At 6-foot-2 and 285 pounds, Nasili-Kite played a handful of positions along the defensive front during spring ball, with the athleticism to kick out to defensive end, and the size and strength to play on the interior. As spring practices progressed, he was complimented more by his coaches and teammates for his consistency. By the time A-Day rolled around, Nasili-Kite was a regular on the first-team defensive line rotation. As versatile as Nasili-Kite has proven himself to be, the task for first-year position coach Jeremy Garrett will be to hone in the most successful aspects of his game to coincide with the skill sets brought to the table by Harris, Kentucky nose tackle transfer Justin Rogers and others. As Garrett said in the spring, Nasili-Kite is capable of playing much bigger and taking up more space on the interior than his size would indicate: “He's not the biggest, but that kid has some power and strength — and he moves well. So it's just putting him in position to use his ability and to do what he does well. He has quickness and he's strong. So we want to have him on the move, want to have him doing different things to highlight his strengths.” Especially with Jeffrey M'ba having transferred after spring ball, Nasili-Kite looks to have a decent hold on the starting spot at defensive end, where fellow transfers like Elijah McAllister (Vanderbilt) and Stephen Sings V (Liberty) can also contribute, along with true freshman Keldric Faulk. WHAT THEY SAID “Mosiah Nasili-Ki — I thought he improved, probably, the most from practice 1 to last week on the D-line as any. He was disruptive and plays the game extremely passionately and hard. He definitely caught my eye.” — Freeze WHAT SAY YOU? What do you think of Nasili-Kite’s spot in our Most Valuable Tigers rankings? Too high? Too low? Just right? Share your thoughts on the Bodda Getta message board, on Twitter or on Facebook.

auburnwire.usatoday.com Auburn Tigers Snapshot Profile: No. 9 Eugene Asante JD McCarthy 5–6 minutes Going into the 2023 football season, Auburn Wire will be looking at each scholarship player listed on the Tigers’ roster. Over the preseason, each profile will cover where the player is from, how recruiting websites rated them coming out of high school, and what role they will play for Hugh Freeze in his first season on the Plains. Buy Tigers Tickets Up next is veteran linebacker Eugene Asante who is entering his second season on the Plains after spending the first three seasons of his career at North Carolina. Preseason Player Profile Hometown: Alexandria, Virginia Height: 6-1 Weight: 222 Previous School: North Carolina (2019-21) Class in 2023: Junior 247Sports Composite Ranking Four-Star / No. 9 in Virginia / No. 20 LB Career Stats Year G Tackles TFLs Sacks PDs FFs 2019 (UNC) 13 12 0 0 0 0 2020 (UNC) 12 27 0.5 0 0 1 2021 (UNC) 12 23 0.5 0 1 0 2022 4 1 0 0 0 0 PFF Grades Year Defense Tackling Run Defense Pass Rush Coverage 2019 69.8 74.3 81.7 53.8 59.5 2020 73.0 52.7 83.0 55.4 62.3 2021 41.2 64.5 46.5 65.3 37.4 2022 65.0 74.3 61.2 – 61.3 Depth Chart Overview Asante is coming off a disappointing first season on the Plains where he appeared in just four games after transferring in from North Carolina. He is now a member of a talented but crowded linebacker room that also features Lary Nixon III and Cam Riley at the Will spot. Nixon and Riley are competing for the starting job with Riley being a returning veteran and Nixon bringing plenty of experience and production from his time at North Texas. These three will give Auburn plenty of depth and flexibility at the position, Asante has flashed as a good coverage linebacker while Riley has looked strong as a pass rusher. Eugene Asante’s Photo Gallery AUBURN, AL - 2023.03.01 - Spring Practice AUBURN, AL - March 01, 2023 - Auburn Linebacker Eugene Asante (#9) during spring practice at… AUBURN, AL - March 01, 2023 - Auburn Linebacker Eugene Asante (#9) during spring practice at the Woltosz Football Performance Center in Auburn, AL. Photo by Declan Greene AUBURN, AL - 2023.03.24 - Spring Practice AUBURN, AL - March 24, 2023 - Auburn Linebacker Eugene Asante (#9) during spring practice at… AUBURN, AL - March 24, 2023 - Auburn Linebacker Eugene Asante (#9) during spring practice at the Woltosz Football Performance Center in Auburn, AL. Photo by Austin Perryman NCAA Football: Auburn Spring Game Apr 8, 2023; Auburn, AL, USA; Auburn Tigers running back Sean Jackson (44) carries as linebacker… Apr 8, 2023; Auburn, AL, USA; Auburn Tigers running back Sean Jackson (44) carries as linebacker Eugense Asante (9) makes the tackle during the annual Auburn Spring Game at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Mandatory Credit: John Reed-USA TODAY Sports Missouri v Auburn AUBURN, ALABAMA - SEPTEMBER 24: Linebacker Eugene Asante #9 of the Auburn Tigers chases after the… AUBURN, ALABAMA - SEPTEMBER 24: Linebacker Eugene Asante #9 of the Auburn Tigers chases after the loose ball as running back Nathaniel Peat #8 of the Missouri Tigers fumbles during the overtime period at Jordan-Hare Stadium on September 24, 2022 in Auburn, Alabama. (Photo by Michael Chang/Getty Images) NCAA Football: Orange Bowl-Texas A&M vs North Carolina Jan 2, 2021; Miami Gardens, FL, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels linebacker Eugene Asante (7) goes… Jan 2, 2021; Miami Gardens, FL, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels linebacker Eugene Asante (7) goes after Texas A&M Aggies quarterback Kellen Mond (11) during the first half at Hard Rock Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports NCAA Football: North Carolina at Georgia Tech Oct 5, 2019; Atlanta, GA, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels linebacker Eugene Asante (24) celebrates after… Oct 5, 2019; Atlanta, GA, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels linebacker Eugene Asante (24) celebrates after a victory against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at Bobby Dodd Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Cornelious Brown IV, Eugene Asante Georgia State quarterback Cornelious Brown IV (4) looks to pass against North Carolina linebacker Eugene Asante… Georgia State quarterback Cornelious Brown IV (4) looks to pass against North Carolina linebacker Eugene Asante (7) during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Chapel Hill, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Chris Seward) NCAA Football: North Carolina at Duke Nov 7, 2020; Durham, North Carolina, USA; Duke Blue Devils running back Jordan Waters (7) goes… Nov 7, 2020; Durham, North Carolina, USA; Duke Blue Devils running back Jordan Waters (7) goes in for a touchdown past North Carolina Tar Heels linebacker Eugene Asante (7) during the second half at Wallace Wade Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports

yahoo.com A nine win season for Auburn is ‘within reach’ says one expert Taylor Jones 2–3 minutes Hugh Freeze has revamped the culture of Auburn football in just a short time, which is why many Tiger fans feel that their team will experience a serious upswing this season. In a recent episode of The Hard Count, On3’s JD PicKell forecasted a 6-6 record for the Tigers in year one under Freeze but lays out a plan for Auburn to completely blow past the prediction. One way that Auburn can exceed expectations is to find new ways to stop the run on defense. “The talent level is there, but my concern is that talent level being improved is great, but you still have a defense that allowed over 180 yards rushing game last year,” PicKell said. “You can’t do that in the SEC and expect to be successful; you just can’t do it.” PicKell also mentions quarterback play when discussing the possibilities of Auburn clawing its way to nine wins. How quickly can Payton Thorne adjust to Hugh Freeze’s scheme? Will he have plenty of talented targets to choose from? “Now, if Payton Thorne does ball out, the other thing that’s probably true about Auburn this coming season is you have a big dog at wide receiver step up,” PicKell said. “Whether it is Camden Brown, (or) Nick Mardner. Like whoever it is, that would have to be true. I think it goes hand in hand with Payton Thorne excelling and excelling quickly in this offense.” Check out PicKell’s breakdown of Auburn’s schedule here: More Football! In-state safety Rydarrius Morgan puts Auburn in top 6 Auburn Tigers Snapshot Profile: No. 9 Eugene Asante Where Auburn lands in Athlon Sports preseason SEC QB rankings Contact/Follow us @TheAuburnWire on Twitter, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Auburn news, notes, and opinion. You can also follow Taylor on Twitter @TaylorJones__ Story originally appeared on Auburn Wire

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Republicans Are Torching Democracy to Deny Women Abortions One year after Dobbs, GOP lawmakers in Ohio — and across the U.S. — are frantically trying to keep voters from weighing in on abortion Protesters react after the announcement to the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022 Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Kierre Morgan has had an abortion, but it was the abortion she didn’t have that transformed her into an activist. She was 17 and in denial, at first, about being pregnant at all. Under Ohio law, she needed permission to terminate her pregnancy, and — after considering whether she could use a fake ID — she finally had a conversation with her adoptive parents. They overruled her decision. “Their options were: I could have my daughter, and they would raise her, which was a big ‘No.’ …An absolute ‘No.’ Or I could have her and raise her — which I did. There was no other option.” Her daughter is 29 now, and Morgan calls her her best friend (“I don’t know if she would say I’m her best friend,” she adds, laughing), but she would not wish the life they were forced to navigate on anyone. There were times she didn’t have enough money for food. They slept in homeless shelters and “in motels where there was prostitution outside the door, and there was blood inside the motel room,” she recalls. “You just look at it and you say: ‘This is what I wanted to prevent. I did not want my child to go through this.’” Morgan’s experience struggling to survive after being unexpectedly saddled with a dependent is not the exception for women who find themselves in that situation; rather, it is the rule. For years afterward, a famous ten-year study showed, women who were denied abortions were less likely to be able to afford food, housing, or transportation than those who accessed abortion care. They had lower credit scores, carried more debt, and were more likely to experience bankruptcy and eviction, among other lasting ripple effects. Her own experience hardened Morgan’s resolve to do all she can to ensure that others don’t end up in the same circumstances. These days, that means volunteering with the coalition of groups campaigning to give Ohio voters the chance to weigh in on abortion laws in their state. But Republican lawmakers, like Morgan’s parents all those years ago, have decided it doesn’t matter what Ohioans may want for their own futures — they’re in a position of power, and they plan to use it. In a bid to doom a ballot measure that would enshrine the right to an abortion in the state constitution, those lawmakers have called a special election in August in hopes that they can change the rules while most voters aren’t paying attention. And they’re not alone. For decades, anti-abortion activists agitating for the end of Roe demanded the court return the issue of abortion “to the people.” But exactly one year after the Supreme Court issued its infamous ruling nullifying constitutional right to an abortion, Republicans across the country — including in many reliably conservative states — are confronting the fact that majorities of votes are not backing their extreme anti-abortion agenda. Instead of changing their policies to better reflect their constituents views, they’re working to make it harder for voters to express them. “It was always a ruse,” says Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, which works to advance ballot measures on a variety of issues in states around the country. “When anti-abortion activists said ‘we want to return this to the people,’ that was never true. And we are now witnessing how not true it was because they are now very explicitly saying, ‘Well, actually, we don’t care about reflecting the views of the American people in the policies that govern access to abortion. What we are interested in, as a shrinking minority, is to impose our views on everyone, and ignore the fact that we live in a democracy.’” When Dobbs was handed down exactly one year ago, an existing Ohio law banning abortion after 6 weeks gestation went into effect. Immediately, advocates for reproductive rights began laying the groundwork for a campaign that would get the issue before voters. (The ban is currently enjoined while a legal challenge works its way through the court system.) Surveys show supporters of reproductive rights have a good shot winning at the ballot box: A recent poll found that 59 percent of registered voters in Ohio would support an amendment enshrining the right to an abortion in the state’s constitution. The stakes of such a vote are high: A national research project led by the Society of Family Planning found that there were 24,290 fewer legal abortions in the U.S. between July 2022 and March 2023. In Ohio alone, there were 5,050 fewer abortions than there would have been if the practice were still legal. Ohio was home, too, to one of the most devastating examples of the cruelty such bans engender: the case of a 10 year-old-rape victim who was forced to travel to neighboring Indiana for medical care. Instead of dedicating their efforts to rallying their ideological allies to defeat the ballot measure, Ohio Republicans are working to prevent the vote from being held at all — and if it is held, making it harder for supporters of abortion rights to win. GOP lawmakers — who banned August special elections in December 2022, citing their exorbitant cost and low turnout — scheduled, barely five months later, an August special election that, if successful, will double the number of counties canvassers would need to collect signatures in in order to get on the ballot. It would, even more gallingly, raise the threshold they must win by from 50 percent to 60 percent of voters. If passed in August, “Issue 1” would make it extremely difficult for citizens in Ohio to propose new amendments to the state’s constitution at any point in the future. Publicly, officials have denied that election on Issue 1 is about abortion. “That’s not what this kind of a change should ever be about,” Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose said when asked last year. But before a friendly crowd at a Republican Party event in May, LaRose dropped the pretense: “It’s 100% about keeping a radical pro-abortion amendment out of our constitution,” he told attendees. Holding a special election in August, he added, is “one of the ways we can make sure they aren’t successful.” (At the same event, LaRose said he is planning to run for U.S. Senate this summer.) Hall, of the Fairness Project, has worked on contentious ballot measures to increase the minimum wage, expand Medicaid, or decriminalize marijuana. She’s used to adversaries who oppose their efforts claiming, for example, that they’re just trying to keep out-of-state money from influencing their elections. “It is the nakedness of what they are doing that is new,” Hall says. “They are saying: ‘We know that voters disagree with us on this issue, and rather than us changing how we govern to be more in line with the people who we are elected to represent, we are going to change the rules of governance itself to make sure that we don’t have to listen to our constituents.’ That is new, that is wild, that is that should freak everyone out — regardless of how you feel about abortion — because it means that we have let our elected representatives get completely untethered from the fundamental role that they are elected to fulfill, which is to represent our views. They are saying in black and white in print, in no uncertain terms: ‘We are not going to listen to you.’” But it’s not just Ohio. In North Dakota — which like Missouri has a total ban on abortion — Republicans introduced a bill in February that would impose a raft of new rules on citizens working to get a citizen-led measure on the ballot. In Oklahoma, Republicans proposed a law that would allow constitutional amendments to appear on the ballot only in odd-numbered years — ensuring they could never coincide with high-turnout general elections. The list goes on: Idaho Republicans floated a bill that would double the number of districts in which signatures would need to be collected — a provision the state Supreme Court already struck down once, declaring it “an unconstitutional infringement on the peoples’ right to legislate independent of the legislature.” A similar proposal would double the required number of signatures to get a ballot measure before voters in Arizona. In Florida, which already requires a 60 percent supermajority to amend the constitution, Republicans put forth a proposal this year that would raise that number to almost 67 percent. In Missouri, Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey spent two months refusing to fulfill the obligations of his office by blocking the approval of language for a 2024 ballot initiative that would expand abortion access in the state. (Bailey challenged the state auditor’s estimate of the taxpayer burden, claiming that legalizing abortion would cost the state $51 billion dollars. A judge blasted his strategy as “preposterous” and ordered Bailey to approve the language earlier this week.) According to the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, 84 measures that would change or weaken the ballot initiative process have been introduced in 19 states this year. The vast majority — 79 of those — were filed by lawmakers, not citizens. Republicans willful disregard for citizens’ desires is even more striking in states that have recently voted against abortion restrictions, like Kansas, where voters of both parties turned out in large numbers to defeat anti-abortion amendment in August, and where, this legislative session, the Republican majority has responded by passing a battery of new restrictions, including a law that requires abortion providers to falsely advise patients that the abortion pill can be reversed. In Kentucky, where a majority of voters defeated an anti-abortion constitutional amendment last November, Republicans introduced five new abortion restrictions this session. In Wisconsin, where a Supreme Court race this spring became a referendum on the state’s 1849 total ban on abortion, Republicans tried offering a carrot, rather than a stick: instead of repealing the ban, they proposed legislation they hope make it seem less cruel, including an offer of tax breaks for embryos. “One of the reasons I think ballot initiatives have been so successful is that they kind of allow you to cut through partisan identities and see what people actually think. But at the moment, I think the way that politicians are getting away with a lot of this stuff is because partisanship runs so deep — they can do pretty much anything if they don’t have a (D) next to their name,” says Mary Zeigler, professor at UC Davis School of Law, and an expert on the history of abortion politics. “What Ohio Republicans are asking voters to do is to just cede power in general — in the name, obviously, of allowing them to ignore the will of the people on abortion, but it would be about more than abortion. If they went for this, it would make it harder for Ohioans to weigh in about anything.” For Hall, there is, at least, a small silver lining to the attention that Republicans have attracted through their outrageous antics in Ohio. “It is very hard to get voters’ attention and the media’s attention on what seemed like small esoteric changes to how our democracy functions,” she says. “It’s a very devious strategy from our opponents, and one that is not closely watched in almost any case — other than what we’re witnessing right now in Ohio.” “I hope,” she adds, “that Ohio marks the turning of the tide.”

so again the right spews their hate and the crazies come out of the woodwork and kill folks. words matter and the right should be ashamed for a lot of this mess.