Auburn’s Sledgehammer hits the beaches of ‘The Pacific’ tonight

HBO’s “The Pacific” premieres tonight. The series details the experience of America’s Marines during the Pacific theater of World War II. One of the main characters is E.B. Sledge, author of the incredible book “With the Old Breed,” native of Mobile, and an Auburn man.

Lebo out

You could see it coming this week as rumors swirled and swirled and swirled and Jay Jacobs did precisely nothing to quell them, but now it’s more-or-less official: Jeff Lebo has been fired as Auburn’s men’s head basketball coach.

Coaching Staff Report Card: the head coach

After the splintered horrors of 2008–with its rifts behind the quarterback situation, the open disgust from the players with the offensive coordinator (and the losing), the well-documented conflict between the offensive staff and that same coordinator–perhaps Gene Chizik’s greatest accomplishment was persuading the Auburn program to rally to the flag he’d planted.

Auburn Pro Day: a recap

Sign No. 1,931 that the thirst for college football coverage in the state of Alabama knows no bounds: yesterday’s Auburn Pro Day was a big deal. Every writer on the Auburn beat was there, Tweeting and writing and snapping photos and shooting video.
Nevermind that it amounts to nothing more than “departed Auburn players go through drills.”

Hoops Report, the regular season post-mortem (Men’s edition)

There was a blueprint for an Auburn NIT bid: sweep the remaining home games, win one road game, and win two SEC tournament games. The first part went according to plan. The third part we’ll get to in a moment. They had four different chances at fulfilling the second part. After last Saturday’s loss to Alabama, though, they finished the season having whiffed on all four.