Jay Jacobs, Auburn University’s athletic director, was the featured speaker at the monthly Tuesday Talk event at the Auburn Chamber of Commerce Tuesday morning.

Joseph Harrison III, a poet with Alabama roots, will give a reading from his newly published collection, “Identify Theft,” Thursday at 5 p.m., at Auburn University’s Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. 

Gov. Bob Riley signed a law Monday that will send many troubled teens to community programs instead of locking them up in detention centers where they often learn bad habits that get them into worse trouble.
The law stops juvenile judges from sending children who have committed noncriminal offenses to the Department of Youth Services. Last year 77 percent of DYS admissions were low-risk juveniles with nonviolent offenses like running away and being truant from school, according to the Alabama Youth Justice Coalition.

Central’s Haley Wilson leads 6A girls after Day 1 with 2-under 70.

Auburn juniors Antonio Coleman and Sen’Derrick Marks have been named to the 2008 Bronko Nagurski Watch List, the Football Writers Association of America announced on Monday.

Four games remain in Auburn’s baseball season, which looks increasingly likely to end without a trip to the Southeastern Conference Tournament. The Tigers haven’t qualified for the SEC tourney in head coach Tom Slater’s four-year tenure.