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he paid me to say that bird............honest.

i notice bird and yellow fella are the same color. are they kin?

i want that double barrelled nerf gun so i can go bird hunting.............grins

it would be nothing to brag about i can assure you.............lol

thanx for blowing my skirt up bird....i was not wearing undies..........you know golf is better looking right?

here have a tissue. most people not completely stupid would understand all mass shootings would be included in my thoughts. i think ALL people are sacred. i think ALL people count. i do not look at deaths in color but in black and white. but you can get as pissy as you want you people are not doing a damn thing to make this country safer concerning guns. that blood is and will remain on your sides hands. you got what you want so own it scooter.................

know why this team is different? know why this team will be meaner? i have yet to see one player on the team this year sporting a man bun. you heard it here first. check me out later for more insights.............

they just had a rape or two in the last month or less and i believe they said assaults were up so i agree on the security thing. as for led lights they have come so far abd save a decent amount of money. and you can get bright ones now as well. used to be all 60 watts best i can remember. but then remember these is the same party that attacked a little girl for trying to save the world.

well he is a thief...................

it for a fact will be on the sec network. i posted an article on it a few days ago.

i agree. which one of us would smuggle in the vodka?

i thought something was kinda off but hell i stay high so i figured it was just me. this kind of surprises me that this could happen on one of Bruce's teams.

if you are a wuss just say so wed. but it is so nice of you to warn us. have you seen anything on frank thomas and his statue ceremony? i have found one sentence. one.

247sports.com Jason Caldwell's Monday morning quarterback column Jason Caldwell 4–5 minutes Important week for Auburn football There is a saying that ‘you never get a second chance to make a first impression.’ That’s true, but for Hugh Freeze and the Auburn Tigers, the first impression may not be nearly as important as the last impression of the spring this week. That starts at the quarterback position where T.J. Finley, Robby Ashford and Holden Geriner have all shown signs of getting the job done, but the inconsistency has continued to be an issue for the group as a whole. With four practices this week, including Saturday’s A-Day game, someone has a chance to go into the summer on a high note and perhaps give themselves a lead in a race that will last until week into August. It’s also an opportunity for some of the younger players to continue to push towards being in the playing rotation on both sides of the ball. Offensively, there are plenty of veterans across the board with transfers at every position, but true freshman Connor Lew has been really good since arriving on campus and is someone the coaches feel like will be ready to compete this fall. The same can be said for Keldric Faulk and Kayin Lee on defense for the Tigers. Faulk is undoubtedly going to have to play for this team because of a lack of depth at the jack linebacker position, but also because of his immense size and physical skills. With cornerback short on depth, Lee has taken advantage of his opportunities to this point and will have several more chances this week to continue that. Can anyone else take a big final push before spring is done? It’s time to find out. Roster makeover coming for Auburn hoops With the loss of Wendell Green Jr. on Sunday to go along with the departures of Yohan Traore and Chance Westry, Auburn already has four open spots that could be filled out of the transfer portal. The Tigers were already one under the limit of 13 after taking scholarship reductions. Throw in Zep Jasper being done with eligibility and that’s five spots. One of those will be used by incoming freshman guard Aden Holloway, giving Bruce Pearl and his staff four more roster spots available. There could be even more with K.D. Johnson, Allen Flanigan and Jaylin Williams all expected to make a decision on their future soon. While Stretch Akingbola has a year of eligibility remaining, he’s not expected to return for the 2023-24 season, which would open up another spot. Any way you slice it, Pearl’s next Auburn team is going to have a very different look with lots of new faces on campus. As it stands today, the Tigers will likely add at least two new faces at the guard position and potentially two more forward/center types to bolster the roster. Those numbers could grow even higher if another player or two from the current roster decides to move on. Welcome to the world of college athletics in 2023. Gorilla Ball Pt. 2 This season there have been 63 SEC games played through three weekends of league play. Of those, 25 games have featured at least one team scoring double figure runs. That’s an incredible number, but it shows you just how hard it is to pitch in this league right now where offenses get older and pitching staffs continue to get younger and younger. Covid has given offenses a chance to continue to build with transfers and experienced players that 10 years ago would have been playing minor league baseball. It doesn’t work that way on the mound because draftable guys are still going to be selected to begin pro careers and trying to get the fast track to the major leagues. Only Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee haven’t allowed 10 or more runs in an SEC game this season. Auburn has allowed three as have Arkansas, Georgia and Texas A&M. Mississippi State leads the way with six double-digit games allowed in nine total games. Here is the rundown of the teams that have allowed 10 or more runs in an SEC game this year through three weeks. Arkansas (3) Auburn (3) Florida (1) Georgia (3) LSU (1) Ole Miss (2) Mississippi State (6) Missouri (2) 5COMMENTS South Carolina (1) Texas A&M (3) ">247Sports

si.com Auburn football's biggest question in spring practice is obvious - but can it be solved? Lance Dawe 3–4 minutes Can Hugh Freeze and Philip Montgomery solve the Tigers' quarterback woes? With a new head coach at the helm, the Auburn Tigers are looking to reset their roster and make a statement in the SEC under first year head coach Hugh Freeze in 2023. One of the biggest question marks for the team is the quarterback position, with Robby Ashford, Holden Geriner and T.J. Finley vying for the starting spot. Barrett Sallee of CBS Sports recently wrote about one question every SEC team needs to answer during spring practice, and to nobody's surprise, Auburn's biggest question is quarterback. "Dual-threat weapon Robby Ashford got the majority of the snaps for the Tigers last season after veteran pro-style signal-caller T.J. Finley suffered an injury in Week 3," Sallee wrote about the Tigers' signal-callers. It's no secret that first-year coach Hugh Freeze went shopping in the transfer portal during the winter window, but it's up to the two former starters to impress him between now and the Tigers' spring game on April 7. Is Auburn's quarterback on campus? Ashford has some work to do as a passer, and it has been difficult for Finley to stay healthy throughout his career." It's been a process for Freeze, OC Philip Montgomery and the Tigers this spring, with Freeze publicly expressing his feelings on the QB room's lack of consistency - despite Geriner's recent successes individually. As mentioned earlier, some retooling has had to be done with the offense. A load of transfers were brought in, and when all is said and done, the Tigers still may bring in a portal quarterback. Auburn has a strong core on defense, with eight starters returning - however, they are tied for the third-fewest returning starters in the SEC with only 11, and only three on offense. Is that a bad thing? Maybe not. But it would certainly help to get the weapons around the quarterbacks (and the offensive line) right as the spring winds down. The question still remains - and it probably won't be answered until fall camp. Even then, will Freeze and his staff feel confident with the man behind center? rn's Pro

al.com Auburn's top-rated 2022 signee 'looks like a whole new guy' this spring Published: Apr. 01, 2023, 9:40 a.m. 5–6 minutes AUBURN, AL - March 01, 2023 - Auburn Linebacker Robert Woodyard Jr. (#17) during spring practice at the Woltosz Football Performance Center in Auburn, AL. Photo by Declan GreeneAuburn University Athletics The highest-rated signee in Auburn’s 2022 class is on track to be a regular contributor for the Tigers’ defense this fall after redshirting as a true freshman last season. Robert Woodyard Jr., who flipped from Alabama to Auburn during the early signing period in December 2021, contributed mostly on special teams while appearing in just four games last season. This spring, however, the former four-star in-state prospect has carved out a spot for himself in the Tigers’ core linebacker rotation. “He looks like a whole new guy from a couple months ago during the season at practice,” junior linebacker Cam Riley said. “…If you see Robert now, he looks like a whole new person.” Read more Auburn football: Trio of transfers has “absolutely improved” Auburn’s offensive line this spring “He’s a monster”: Auburn trying to temper expectations for freshman edge rusher Keldric Faulk Auburn’s wide receivers look to “change the narrative” this season Woodyard has been working mostly alongside Riley with Auburn’s second pairing at inside linebacker, while Ole Miss transfer Austin Keys and senior Wesley Steiner have been the first grouping in the rotation this spring. It’s a promising step forward for Woodyard after playing sparingly during his first season on the Plains, when he was relegated mostly to special teams work and earned the designation as defensive scout team player of the year. “He’s got a tremendous attitude,” linebackers coach Josh Aldridge said in February. “He’s always in the building, which is what everybody told me when I got here, that he was the guy that spent a lot of time in that facility. And so that so far has been really good. Pretty mature for a young kid.” Woodyard is the youngest player in a surprisingly experienced linebacker room for Auburn this spring. Despite losing leading tackle, team captain and four-year starter Owen Pappoe to the draft, Auburn returns Riley and Steiner from its primary rotation last season, as well a veteran Eugene Asante, while also bringing in a pair of transfers with SEC experience in Keys and LSU transfer DeMario Tolan. The 6-foot, 241-pound Woodyard signed with Auburn as the nation’s No. 141 overall prospect and a top-10 player in the state. A highly touted linebacker out of Mobile, Woodyard was committed to Alabama for a year and a half — since the summer before his junior year — but the Tigers’ former staff managed to flip him during the early signing period that cycle. He became the first player to flip from Alabama to Auburn since Opelika safety Stephen Roberts did so during the 2014 cycle. Though he was the highest-rated player in Auburn’s class, he spent part of the offseason before his freshman year recovering from a meniscus injury that cost him the final three games of his senior season at Williamson. Now fully healthy and with a year of learning experience under his belt, as well as a new coaching staff in the picture, Woodyard is positioned for a key role in the Tigers’ defense this season. Roberts said last week that he would like to be able to go three-deep at the two inside linebacker spots this fall, and he believes he currently has five linebackers who are game-ready. Woodyard is one of them. “He can strike,” Roberts said. “He can make tackles. He’s athletic. For him, it’s just being young, and you want to be able to see him be more vocal on the field with communication and getting everybody in the right spots, being able to help people out on the field. That’s some of the things we kind of expect from that position, so we kind of need him to take those growth steps forward.” While Woodyard still needs to develop from that standpoint, he at least has the ideal size to play the Mike position in Auburn’s defense and the kind of hard-hitting mentality required to be an effective linebacker in the SEC. “He’s a physical guy; he’s always around the ball,” Riley said. “He has a knack for the ball, like he wants to make every play He takes the time to actually learn the defense. He’s a new guy, man. I can’t believe it.” Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.

auburnwire.usatoday.com New faces have strengthened offensive line throughout spring practice Daniel Locke ~2 minutes A-Day is one week away and there is a renewed sense of energy and purpose surrounding the Auburn Tigers Football Program. New head football coach Hugh Freeze has wasted no time improving areas of need for the team. The offensive line has consistently been a weakness for Auburn since 2017. Freeze wasted no time improving the position since his arrival in Auburn. Buy Tigers Tickets An article from AL.com written by Tom Green highlighted the improvement made to the position. Phillip Montgomery, the former head coach of Tulsa who Freeze hired to fill the offensive coordinator role, has high expectations for the group. “Offensive line, I think, has been a real positive surprise throughout the spring,” offensive coordinator Philip Montgomery said. “I think the guys that we’ve been able to add to that room have made an impact.” The Tigers landed three offensive linemen in the transfer portal. Avery Jones from ECU, Dillon Wade from Tulsa, and Gunner Britton from Western Kentucky. Auburn also brought in Connor Lew, a four-star recruit from Acworth, Georgia. Lew is the No. 20 ranked interior offensive lineman in the 2023 recruiting class according to 247Sports. The Tiger’s biggest offensive line grab in the 2023 recruiting class was Clay Wedin, the No. 37 ranked interior offensive lineman in the 2023 recruiting class according to 247Sports. With an improved offensive line, Auburn’s offense will be able to make a lot more happen this season.

Battie brings 'speed and quickness' to Auburn offense Jason Caldwell 3–4 minutes AUBURN, Alabama—Late in the 2022 season, coach Philip Montgomery’s Tulsa Golden Hurricane had a matchup with a South Florida team that had already seen its coach fired during the year and was running on fumes. While the Bulls were really struggling, that didn’t mean they didn’t have some things for Tulsa to worry about heading into the game. The main thing on the minds of the defensive coaches was trying to stop Brian Battie. “He was the guy we needed to stop, for sure,” Montgomery said. “Because he’s electric with the ball in his hands.” Tulsa won the game 48-42, but they didn’t come close to stopping Battie. Carrying the ball 18 times for 169 yards and a touchdown, Battie also added a two-point conversion for South Florida in the loss. Making the move to Auburn to work as the offensive coordinator for the Tigers, Montgomery knew right away that Battie was a guy he wanted to work with as soon as the speedy running back entered the portal. Now that he’s on campus, the diminutive back has shown exactly why he was so tough to tame. “The thing about Brian, and he’s got really good speed, but the thing that you notice when you’re around him or even as as person that played against him, he is very, very difficult to tackle,” Montgomery said. “And he does a great job of setting up blocks, being patient. “He can really stop and start and create some spacing for himself. And then, I’m just telling you, he hides behind things and then all of a sudden you see him just pop out and good things are happening. Really impressed with what he’s been able to do so far.” A 1,000-yard rusher for a bad South Florida team, Battie was often the focus for the opposing defense but he still managed to make plays. It’s something that teammate Damari Alston has seen already this spring out of Battie and he knows the reason why. “He definitely adds some speed and quickness,” Alston said. “He's a really quick guy. He can obviously take kicks back as well. I just feel like he adds that speed and that quickness that we need in the room.” 17COMMENTS Now with Battie in his offense and getting a chance to coach him instead of against him, Montgomery said he’s excited to see what he can bring to this offense as the Tigers get ready for the 2023 season. “When you get him out in space and all of a sudden he’s this and he’s got that shake to him, he can get you off balance,” Montgomery said. “And if you notice, if you go back and truly watch his tapes, he doesn’t take many just straight-on hard hits. He’s a guy that just understands how to maneuver himself and find ways to stay positive and finish forward.” ">247Sports

Auburn unveiling a Frank Thomas statue april 8th this is all i have on this. there was no link not story.

i am going to wait on responding to this any further. my blood pressure is running 150 over a 100 so i need to be a little more careful until i get this adjusted. for a 67 year old fatman that is a scary number.this is the fourth day it has been high. trust me i love going toe to toe with you guys but not at the expense of my health.

you certainly did not care when trump was prez. i wanted too throw that zinger in there to match yours you shot my way. i will admit you finally got off the trump band wagon and saw the light but that does not mean it no longer needs to be discussed.

your statement is just not true mikey. Unlawful entries along U.S.-Mexico border plummeted in January after expansion of migrant expulsions Camilo Montoya-Galvez February 2, 2023 / 10:26 AM / CBS News The number of migrants apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol after illegally crossing the southern border dropped by roughly 40% in January, when the Biden administration announced a revamped strategy to discourage unlawful crossings, according to preliminary government data obtained by CBS News. Border Patrol agents recorded approximately 130,000 apprehensions of migrants who entered the U.S. between official ports of entry along the border with Mexico, compared to the near-record 221,000 apprehensions in December, the internal preliminary figures show. The number of Border Patrol apprehensions in November and October totaled 207,396 and 204,874, respectively. The statistics indicate that January saw the lowest levels of illegal migration along the U.S.-Mexico border since President Biden's first full month in office in February 2021. The figures do not include migrants and asylum-seekers processed at official border crossings. Senior U.S. officials said the sharp drop in illegal entries last month stemmed from the Biden administration's expansion of a strategy it launched last year to reduce the number of Venezuelans entering U.S. border custody. In early January, the administration announced it would use a pandemic-related authority known as Title 42 to swiftly expel Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Venezuelans to Mexico without allowing them to seek asylum if they attempted to cross into the U.S. without legal permission. Before the announcement, Mexico generally only accepted Title 42 returns of its citizens and migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and, after October 2022, Venezuela. The repressive governments in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, which are sanctioned by the U.S., have for their part severely limited or rejected U.S. deportations of their citizens. Officials simultaneously announced that the U.S. would allow up to 30,000 migrants from these four countries to fly into the U.S. on a monthly basis if Americans agreed to sponsor their arrival. The administration is also allowing a limited number of migrants in northern Mexico to request a humanitarian exemption to Title 42 at ports of entry through a mobile app. Migrants wait at the U.S.-Mexico border on Jan. 8, 2023, in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Christian Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images While migrant arrivals along the U.S. southern border have historically dipped in January due to a holiday season lull and colder temperatures, the drop over the past few weeks has been most pronounced among migrants from countries whose citizens are subject to the new procedures, government statistics show. The daily average of Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Venezuelans crossing the southern border illegally has dropped below 200, down over 90% from a peak of 3,367 in December, according to the government data. It's unclear, however, whether the downward trend will continue in the coming months. The Biden administration has itself conceded that the policies announced last month are stopgap measures prompted by Congress' failure to reform U.S. immigration laws since the 1990s. The strategy's deterrence component relies on a pandemic order the Biden administration tried to end last spring and that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials have said they no longer can justify on public health grounds. The CDC's move to terminate Title 42 in May 2022 was halted after Republican state officials convinced a federal judge in Louisiana to block the termination on technical grounds. Title 42 was again set to end in late December, but the Supreme Court, at the request of the Republican-led states, suspended a lower court ruling that had declared the policy illegal. Those cases could be rendered moot on May 11, when the Biden administration is expected to terminate the national public health emergency over COVID-19. The CDC said in its Title 42 order that the expulsions would be halted if the health emergency was lifted. On Wednesday, a bipartisan group of senators reintroduced a bill that would prolong Title 42 for at least two months after the emergency declaration expires and require the Department of Homeland Security to submit a plan to Congress on how it will manage migration after the expulsions are halted. Biden administration officials said they have been preparing for Title 42's end for the past year, including by expanding a process known as expedited removal that allows U.S. border officials to rapidly deport migrants who don't ask for asylum or who fail to establish credible fear of persecution. The administration is also planning to publish a regulation that would generally disqualify migrants from asylum if they do not ask for protection in third countries on their way to the U.S. Those subject to the policy could be deported without a court hearing. Mr. Biden's strategy is also under legal jeopardy. Twenty states led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit last month seeking to halt the sponsorship program for migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela. The states argued the policy is an illegal expansion of the parole authority, the law the Biden administration is using to allow those arriving under the program to live and work legally in the U.S. on a temporary basis. The Biden administration has said the lawsuit, if successful, would fuel more illegal border crossings since Mexico made its decision to accept migrants returned by the U.S. contingent on the U.S. fulfilling its pledge to take in 30,000 migrants each month via the sponsorship program. "These expanded border enforcement measures are working," Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said last week. "It is incomprehensible that some states who stand to benefit from these highly effective enforcement measures are seeking to block them and cause more irregular migration at our southern border." President Biden walks along the U.S.-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 8, 2023. JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images In addition to the constant criticism from Republican lawmakers who have accused Mr. Biden of not fully enforcing U.S. immigration laws, his administration has recently faced pushback from some Democratic allies angry with the policies that limit access to the asylum system. The proposal to disqualify migrants from asylum in particular has garnered strong opposition from progressive advocates and dozens of Democrats in Congress, who have noted the policy is similar to a regulation the Trump administration enacted in 2019 before it was struck down in federal court. Andrea Flores, who was a National Security Council official until late 2021, criticized the reliance on Trump-era measures to manage migration. "Any border management policy that relies on a short-term public health authority is not a sustainable solution to mass migration," said Flores, who now serves as chief counsel to Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey. "A single weather or political event could happen next month, Title 42 could disappear, and the whole situation could change in an instant." But the Biden administration has argued the measures are needed to address the unprecedented migration crisis the U.S. government and local communities along the southern border have faced over the past year. In fiscal year 2022, federal officials along the southern border stopped migrants over 2.3 million times, a record high. While Title 42 was used to carry out over 1 million expulsions during that period, hundreds of thousands of migrants were allowed to stay in the country and submit asylum requests before an overwhelmed court system. The humanitarian crisis along the U.S. southern border is part of a mass displacement event in the Western Hemisphere that has seen millions of people uprooted from their homes by poverty, hunger, violence and authoritarian rule. Over the past year, hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans have journeyed to the U.S. border, fleeing economic instability and political repression in their homelands. Thousands of Haitians have also sought to reach the U.S. in hopes of escaping the political turmoil and gang violence plaguing the destitute Caribbean nation. Camilo Montoya-Galvez Camilo Montoya-Galvez is the immigration reporter at CBS News. Based in Washington, he covers immigration policy and politics. Twitter Thanks for reading CBS NEWS.

they do not care. my personal opinion is if you want to play with military grade weapons you should have to join the military. life is sacred until it comes to gun control and then all of a sudden it is not. because you cannot stand for the rule of law that gets people killed daily life is not sacred anymore. ask our school kids who are scared to go to school now. and those gun drills will traumatize children for years to come. i still remember the fear i was taught during the cuba thing and the cold war learning how to crawl under a desk and covering up. and you gun fanatics can save your time because i will not change my mind. hell forget russia or china we are our own worst nightmare and it sucks. it is like a third world country now. you can get killed shopping or praying or going to school among other situations. but feel free to answer if you must. but you will not change my mind. our children are sacred and we have thrown them to the wolves................