Tuesday’s practice was an eventful one, at least for a few minutes during pass-rush drills. The fight between Ryan Pugh and Antonio Coleman—which expanded to include several other players, including OT Lee Ziemba—disrupted practice and gave everyone present a scare, as Coleman appeared to have sustained a serious injury. It was a false alarm, fortunately, but it was also—hopefully—a wakeup call to everyone concerned, including Ziemba, who I think may have intended to act as a peacemaker but actually escalated the fight and could have hurt Coleman, not for the first time. The fight was all but over when Ziemba jumped in, and it wasn’t until he became involved that Coleman fell over a water cooler and was at serious risk.

As I wrote in tomorrow’s paper, Ziemba’s intensity in games is a bonus for Auburn, but his intensity in practice seems over the top. It’s not “passion” or “grit” or “toughness” to be so out of control in practice that you’re fighting every other day with your teammates, who after all aren’t the enemy. I’m sure I’ll get plenty of comments and e-mails for being a weak-kneed pantywaist who never played college football, but facts are facts: Auburn’s other linemen aren’t regularly engaging in fistfights or post-whistle shenanigans with their teammates, and does anyone really think it’s because Tyronne Green or Sen’Derrick Marks or any of the rest are soft?

* In other news, your running quarterback completion totals (credit again to my good friend and colleague Jeffrey Lee of Auburnsports.com, who has carried most of the load in keeping track of these numbers): Kodi Burns has completed 200 of 303 passes in practice (not counting Saturday’s scrimmage). That’s a 66 percent average. Chris Todd, meanwhile, has completed 238 of 327 (72.8 percent). Both numbers are very good; while Burns’ percentage is obviously a bit behind Todd’s, his playmaking ability with his feet should not be discounted.

* Tuesday marked the return to practice of C Jason Bosley, who missed seven straight practices with a back injury. Bosley’s return is important for the offensive line, which needed Pugh back at right tackle. Pugh had been forced to play center with the first-team offense while Bosley was out. CB Harry Adams watched practice, but didn’t participate. He’s back from a bruised lung after being taken off the practice field in an ambulance on Sunday. (That’s hardly a ho-hum practice injury. Read it again: A bruised lung? Wow.)

* Tommy Tuberville said again today that he has no news on summer grades. That’s incredibly hard to believe, as most Auburn students received their grades in the middle of last week and the absolute last grades were posted Friday. Summer graduation was Saturday, and here were are on the following Tuesday and the head football coach claims not to have any information on his players’ grades. Weird, huh? CB Ryan Williams is the player whose grades are most anticipated...Tuberville said weeks ago that Williams was more or less cleared, but his status has been murky lately, and he’s participated sparingly in drills. Plus, he’s been off-limits to media interviews, usually a bad sign as far as eligibility goes.