Sports

The Iron Beam: Auburn Gymnastics will try to snap 103-meet losing streak against Bama tonight

An Auburn gymnastics meet is something different from most things you’ve seen in sports. There...

Why were live oaks planted at Toomer’s Corner? Old letters may provide clues

Auburn folk are forestry pros from way back, right? So why in the world did...

Toomer’s Oaks might be turned into souvenirs

The only thing I could think about at the committee meeting last week: what’s going...

It’s Pronounced Jordan gets the Shug Jordan of intros, rolls Toomer’s history

I’ll be holding the Auburn Network studios hostage yet again tonight (Occupy Hubbard), this time...

Arts / Culture

Accolades continue for Auburn grad Octavia Spencer with Essence Magazine’s “Breakthrough Award”

And it don't stop for Octavia Spencer....

Remembering the McLean Deluxe, ‘The Burger That Made Auburn Famous’

1991 wasn't the best of years Auburn fans. Our first losing season in a decade...

Auburn alum Octavia Spencer receives Oscar nomination

Our chances of landing that TWER interview grow slimmer by the day....

Atkins continues the Aces: Auburn football player turned mystery writer nominated for Edgar Allan Poe Award

We're still holding out hope for an Otis Mounds historical crime series....

Columns

The Iron Beam: Auburn Gymnastics will try to snap 103-meet losing streak against Bama tonight

An Auburn gymnastics meet is something different from most things you’ve seen...

Got 13? Tracing the roots of Harvey Updyke’s supposed plea deal

It’s a standard rule with a standard concept of “professional respect.”  When...

Sorting Dyer from the mire

How will the No-Whistle Missile down in Auburn memory?...

The Wishbone: Dis-co-ordinated and Disoriented!

Arkansas State?  Really?  Arkansas State?   Call us naïve, but we always assumed...

John Heisman’s letter to Auburn students, 1899

There is one thing related to the Heisman Trophy that Alabama will...

People

Accolades continue for Auburn grad Octavia Spencer with Essence Magazine’s “Breakthrough Award”

And it don't stop for Octavia Spencer....

Auburn alum Octavia Spencer receives Oscar nomination

Our chances of landing that TWER interview grow slimmer by the day....

Former Auburn track teammates helping charities raise funds via sports gambling

Two former Auburn track and fielders are betting that folks will really...

Stop motion LEGO video marriage proposal to Auburn grad goes viral

It took several days and 2,600 photos—and at least one orange and...

Can an Auburn fox help Cox rock JOX?

Cox Media Group’s 97.3 The Zone might not be able to get...

Death from (All The) Above: Auburn flag flies in window of American chopper in Afghanistan

Apparently, if you’re trying to get your terror on in the mountains...

’74 Auburn grad reinvents herself with docu-tourism

Lisa Weldon, ’74, decided last year she needed something different in her...

Village

Never-before-seen COLOR photos of Toomer’s Corner after Punt, Bama, Punt

What we know for sure is that it brought out the cameras....

Toomer’s recommendation approved by Gogue

The recommendation that one or more large trees replace the Toomer’s Oaks,...

Future of “CAM” graffiti on War Eagle wall downtown yet to be determined

Sure, Cam Newton left his footprints all over Auburn (and every one...

Wire system could be considered for temporary solution to rolling Toomer’s Corner

Maybe some wires or something. Maybe....

Toomer’s committee to recommend replanting trees—and a temporary rolling solution—to Gogue

The Committee to Determine the Future of Rolling Toomer’s Corner signaled today...

Vintage

Never-before-seen COLOR photos of Toomer’s Corner after Punt, Bama, Punt

What we know for sure is that it brought out the cameras. And hallelujah, the...

Why were live oaks planted at Toomer’s Corner? Old letters may provide clues

Auburn folk are forestry pros from way back, right? So why in the world did the dudes who planted the...

Remembering the McLean Deluxe, ‘The Burger That Made Auburn Famous’

1991 wasn't the best of years Auburn fans. Our first losing season in a decade was in the works; a...

That’s a TIGER of a Shug mural

At least a molecule of every future tear I cry will be born of the knowledge that THAT wasn't made...

MORE early photos of Toomer’s Corner being rolled in 1972

That Auburn fans will eventually be rolling not trees at Toomer's Corner but an "attractive intersection structure" made specifically for...

The Auburn Tiger (at the Birmingham Zoo)

Ah, the '50s, when if Alabamians wanted to root for a winning team, they had to root for Auburn... when...

Trophy reveals different outcome of 1988 Sugar Bowl?

Maybe this is common knowledge—if it is, don’t tell us—but apparently feel-good semantics ruled the pre-overtime era of college football,...

‘My wife was the Auburn Tiger’: The pre-Aubie antics of a forgotten Auburn mascot

Regarding Auburn's eclectic, esoteric mascot culture, we now test the talons of our historical expertise on "the Auburn Tiger"—that's how...

New Years Day marks 59th anniversary of Hank Williams’ death. Not that anyone on The Plainsman staff in 1953 cares.

58 years ago, there was a tear in The Plainsman's chardonnay....

Color Me Gladd (1951): Auburn meets Vanderbilt in golden Gator Bowl eternity

Auburn could have lost the 1955 Gator Bowl to Vanderbilt 1,955 to nothing and I'd still have happy tears watching...

Auburn women’s cross country team inspires 1981 American fitness goals

In January 1981, six Auburn coeds were the face of American fitness....

When Eric Ramsey cried racism, Mike Pelton cried foul

Eric Ramsey was causing controversy even before coming forward about his pay-for-play relationship with Auburn boosters....

The 1973 Delta Chi Miss Hot Pants pageant

When The Legendary Beverly Bradford (TLBB) dumped the Auburn Plainsman's weekly Loveliest of the Plains feature, her first act of...

Baby We Were Born to War Eagle: Springsteen in Auburn, May 13, 1976

Per the '77 Glom, only 1,500 students bought one of the 4,700 tickets put on sale for what turned out...

Bjork Damn Eagle II: Bjork ravishes an Auburn cup, and other new waves of secondhand nostalgia for the 1988 Sugarcubes concert on the Plains

Thanks to the first story, we manged to get in touch with and interview the person who hung out with...

John Heisman’s letter to Auburn students, 1899

There is one thing related to the Heisman Trophy that Alabama will never have, can never have. Sure, Auburn remains...

The 1942 Glomerata on Dec. 7, 1941

Here's the day that lives in infamy as it appears in the 1942 Glomerata....

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