The Auburn swimming and diving team welcomes Georgia to the James E. Martin Aquatic Center for a big Southeastern Conference meet today.

EUFAULA — Lee-Scott’s boys and girls basketball teams swept Lakeside on the road Thursday, with the girls pulling out a squeaker, 37-35, and the boys doubling up the Chiefs, 90-45.

Auburn’s not going to reinvent the wheel during the bye week.

From just about the time Reeltown’s young men can cradle a football, they are versed in some form of the wishbone offense.

Junior-college transfer Kenny Gabriel, a swingman with range, is out indefinitely after undergoing hernia surgery Tuesday, Auburn head basketball coach Jeff Lebo said Wednesday. A timetable for his return is unknown, but it looks like it’ll be later rather than sooner.

Tonight’s opponent for the Auburn women’s basketball team served as a happy homecoming and a jumpstart to a historic season when the two teams met this time last year.

TUSCALOOSA — In an Alabama senior class full of overachievers, one name kept coming up when classmates were asked who they thought was the Most Improved Player over the last four or five years.

The Auburn swimming and diving team signed 16 athletes to National Letters of Intent during the NCAA Early Signing Period, head coach Brett Hawke announced Wednesday.

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Loachapoka junior Tracy Brooks matched his season interception total in about a minute of game time in the fourth quarter of No. 5 Indians’ 18-12 win over No. 4 Maplesville last Friday night, helping advance Loachapoka to its fourth quarterfinal appearance in the past six seasons.

A lawsuit filed against Auburn running back Eric Smith on Tuesday alleges that two other Auburn football players were involved in the August incident that left an Auburn University student unconscious and bloodied. 

PHILADELPHIA — The Auburn women’s basketball team suffered its first setback of the season Tuesday as the Tigers fell, 66-52, to Temple at McGonigle Hall.

Loachapoka’s players are not being shielded from the future or the past this week.

TUSCALOOSA — Every football player dreams of playing on Sundays, but maybe not like this.

TUSCALOOSA — Freshman Tony Mitchell and junior college transfer Charvez Davis helped spark Alabama past Jackson State, 86-69, and give coach Anthony Grant his first victory at the school Tuesday night at Coleman Coliseum.

The reigning NCAA champion Auburn men’s swimming and diving team enter the 2009-10 season ranked No. 5 in the initial College Swimming Coaches Association of America poll.

TALLASSEE — The Tallassee wrestling team opened the 2009-10 season with a 39-31 win over Benjamin Russell on Tuesday.

Safeties coach Tommy Thigpen calls Auburn’s latest Mr. Do-It-All, Demond Washington, a “big-picture guy.”

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — For the second straight game, Auburn’s basketball team faced a mid-major opponent that was physically outmatched.

Lee-Scott’s boys basketball team went cold at the worst possible time in its home opener Monday night.