AUBURN — There are so many things on everyone’s minds right now, Auburn athletics director Allen Greene said, that it’s difficult to focus on a topic that dominated the conversation just weeks ago — the return of sports.

Pat Dye and Auburn made for the perfect coach-school marriage.

We really should stop referring to the annual Alabama-Auburn football game as the "Iron Bowl."

AUBURN — Pat Dye, the legendary football coach who led Auburn's football program to great heights in the 1980s, died Monday, according to multiple reports. He was 80 years old.

AUBURN — On Friday, Chandler Wooten tweeted that he was going to continue speaking out. "If you don't like it or you're offended/ & or uncomfortable," he wrote, "please unfollow me NOW !"

AUBURN — Big Kat Bryant thought 2019 was going to be his year.

Auburn landed its potential quarterback of the future when four-star dual-threat Dematrius Davis committed May 17. On Wednesday, it landed a guy who knows how to block for him.

My hometown paper, the Louisville Courier-Journal, just polled readers on which four figures belong on Kentucky’s sports “Rushmore.” Not surprisingly, Muhammad Ali, Secretariat, Adolph Rupp and Denny Crum led voting.

AUBURN — Cam Newton is still looking for a new home in the NFL, but his younger brother, Caylin Newton, has found his in college.

AUBURN — Legendary Auburn football coach Pat Dye recently tested positive for COVID-19 and has since been hospitalized due to ongoing kidney problems, according to an email sent to members of the Toccoa United Methodist Church in Toccoa, Ga.

AUBURN — Redshirt freshman Auburn football player Jashawn Sheffield has been suspended indefinitely following a pair of arrests in Georgia, a team spokesman confirmed to the Montgomery Advertiser.

AUBURN — For a while, it seemed as though Auburn might have gotten off to a slow start recruiting its 2021 class.

AUBURN — Two of the most powerful figures in Auburn University's administration — president Jay Gogue and athletics director Allen Greene — released video updates last week. Their messages were quite different.

AUBURN — Being the head coach of a college football program means talking to reporters. Like, a lot.

AUBURN — It’s still too early to say whether the 2020 college football season will be played as scheduled, given the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. But it is not too early to be talking about games as many as 16 years down the road.

AUBURN — Having six former players selected in this past weekend's NFL draft doesn’t seem like a lot when compared to reigning national champion LSU, which sent a record 14 to the next level, or cross-state rival Alabama, which produced another nine draft picks. Clemson, Georgia and Florida each finished with seven.

AUBURN — One of the reasons Marlon Davidson decided to return to Auburn for his senior season, simply put, was money.

The Southeastern Conference is where the big boys play.

AUBURN — Derrick Brown has had a lot of “first since” moments over the past few months.

AUBURN — The NFL draft is going to look different than usual this year.

AUBURN — If you're an Auburn or Alabama football fan, you surely remember the sequence that took place at the end of the first half during November's Iron Bowl at Jordan-Hare Stadium.

AUBURN — The first words Nick Brahms spoke Thursday afternoon sounded like they came from a malfunctioning robot you might see in a TV show or movie — slow, drawn out, a little glitchy.

AUBURN — Jalen Green will not be teammates with Sharife Cooper or Devan Cambridge next season.

AUBURN — Gus Malzahn and his coaching staff have never had much trouble luring talented players to the Plains.

AUBURN — April is the month that will go a long way toward deciding whether next year's Auburn men's basketball team is young and inexperienced with plenty of upside — or potentially the team to beat in the SEC.

AUBURN — Looking back on it now, Bo Nix is glad he spent so much time in Chad Morris’ office during the first few weeks after the former Arkansas head coach joined Auburn’s staff.

Powering through pushups, sit-ups and bodyweight squats in his family’s Oxford yard, his pocket-sized speaker blaring musical fuel, is not how K.J. Britt imagined spending his spring.

AUBURN — The most-talked about move Gus Malzahn made this offseason was to hire longtime friend and former Arkansas head coach Chad Morris to be Auburn’s offensive coordinator, and for good reason — Malzahn handed him the keys to the offense.

AUBURN — If you’re looking for ways to stay in shape during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ryan Russell might be able to help.

Bryce Brown’s favorite games to play in this past season were the ones against NBA players.

AUBURN — Kirk Herbstreit, Dabo Swinney and others are welcome to have as strong an opinion about how the COVID-19 pandemic could affect the 2020 college football season.

AUBURN — Gus Malzahn, the $49-million head coach of a Power 5 program in the SEC, had time to sit on the couch with his wife, Kristi, this past week and watch all seven episodes of “Tiger King” on Netflix.

It may still be a while before the state's premier college football teams are able to get on the field and practice, but that no longer means they can't start preparing for the 2020 season.

AUBURN — The Auburn equipment room is supposed to be bustling at this time of year. Football players need to get fitted for helmets and pads. Staff need to take inventory and get everything ready for the next season.

AUBURN — A player of Jalen Green’s caliber probably would not have even considered playing basketball for Auburn five years ago.

AUBURN — Isaac Okoro did not arrive at Auburn as a surefire one-and-done NBA prospect.

AUBURN — There is no shortage of people trying to figure out what might have happened in this year’s NCAA tournament, had it not been canceled or postponed like every other sporting event in the country and around the world.

AUBURN — Bruce Pearl would rather be at an NCAA tournament site this weekend.

College football will be back, though the particulars remain a wait-and-see topic for Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey.

AUBURN — This is normally the time of year when Gus Malzahn would be hyper-focused on football.

The NCAA won't be releasing brackets for its annual men's and women's basketball tournaments.

Southeastern Conference athletics are on hold and may not return for some time.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In light of widespread concern about the COVID-19 pandemic, the Southeastern Conference has taken the unprecedented step to suspend all on- and off-campus recruiting across all its sports through March 30, league commissioner Greg Sankey announced Thursday.

For Alabama head coach Nate Oats, the COVID-19 coronavirus scare provided an opportunity to joke about avoiding his regular media responsibilities and recommending stock options in hand sanitizer.

AUBURN — The first time Prince Tega Wanogho ran a 40-yard dash, he did it in high-top sneakers.

AUBURN — Gus Malzahn spent a lot of time Friday morning speaking to Matt Patricia of the Detroit Lions and Joe Judge of the New York Giants, who were the only NFL head coaches in attendance at Auburn’s Pro Day.

Samir Doughty turned his back to the basket, both arms outstretched with three fingers showing on each hand, and tapped his right bicep three times.

AUBURN — Nick Coe snuck up behind Derrick Brown and poked him in the back, just to mess with him a little bit. He joked with Marlon Davidson during a break. He took the same practice field he had spent the past four years playing on next to his two former teammates, who he considers brothers after they arrived on the Plains in the same 2016 recruiting class. He caught up with his former coaches.