James Harris believes the unusual training methods his coach prescribes for him are part of what has made him one of the best track athletes in the country.

Auburn High’s girls soccer team lost a number of valuable seniors from last year’s team, one that helped extend the Tigers’ streak of Final Four appearances to eight.

Beauregard’s Kyle Brown, who unleashed his 6-foot-3, 250-pound frame on nine home run balls in the Hornets’ run to the state quarterfinals last year, hit about as many over the course of a couple of hours in the Wiregrass High School Home Run Derby on Saturday.

Jerraud Powers probably wishes he could redo his first conversation with Indianapolis Colts president Bill Polian.

Auburn’s recruiting machine kept on chugging Saturday, and, in this instance, threw a kink in Alabama’s.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Courtney Fortson scored 8 of his game-high 24 points in overtime to go along with 10 rebounds and seven assists to lead Arkansas to an 82-79 victory over Auburn in Bud Walton Arena on Saturday.

Only a Kierra Scott 3-point play with 1:32 left in the third quarter saved Auburn High from producing a goose egg for the whole 8 minutes in the Class 6A-Area 8 title game Saturday night.

Trailing by 5 points heading into halftime of their Class 5A-Area 6 championship game against Booker T. Washington, the Beauregard girls needed a spark.

The reputation Alli Smalley established over the first two years of her Auburn career has defenses feeling like they have her figured out.

With about 95 seconds to go in his 189-pound consolation match, Auburn High’s Spencer Ramsey trailed Opelika’s Mitchell Mowery by 5 points, and he had just seen an encouraging attack turn into an escape point for the Bulldog wrestler.

OXFORD, Miss. — Down 23 points in the second half, Ole Miss appeared finished, headed for its third straight loss.

The No. 5/8 Auburn swimming and diving team defeated Division III power Emory at the James E. Martin Aquatics Center on Saturday to close out the regular season.

There was only one team in the country which signed more players than Auburn on National Signing Day, and only one other that cracked 30.

Auburn is right back at the rock-bottom mark it hit last season before it went on a tear to finish second place in the SEC West, and, unlike the year before, it had to win a game to reach its current 2-5 conference record.

PHENIX CITY — The third-ranked team in the state found new and exciting ways to end its season from the free-throw line in the first round of the Class 6A-Area 7 tournament Friday night.

Auburn High head coach Frank Tolbert wouldn’t say what he told his team at halftime.

CAMP HILL — Faced with an unexpected tie heading into the fourth quarter Friday, Loachapoka pulled an ace from under its sleeve.

LAFAYETTE — Beulah missed its first shot at a sub-regional playoff berth in six years by less than a second.

MONTGOMERY — Pike Liberal Arts handed Lee-Scott just its fifth loss of the season. It just so happened that it was in the biggest game of the season thus far.

There are no timeouts for psyches.