Jim Pyburn’s recent passing has us waxing second-handedly nostalgic for the Auburn ballers of the ’50s, of which there are many. A few weeks back, we documented the Dread Pirate Roberts-ish details of Zeke Smith’s nickname. But we’re dedicating this space simply to four nifty photos of Joe Childress, just for the hell of it. [...]

If you start and play them at exactly same time, you can see The Matrix.

Here’s 3 minutes and 45 seconds of 2010′s second most efficient passer running the football. Try not to groan. H/T @JHokanson … Keep Reading: * Rare candids of Pat Sullivan at the 1971 Heisman banquet * My first meeting with Dean Foy * Pompadours on the Plains: the 50s revival at Auburn * Bear Bryant’s [...]

On this Memorial Day weekend, please to enjoy Grantland Rice being all Grantland Rice.

I drove down Glenn Ave, into the sunset, and cried.

Your intrepid Wishbone columnists take opposite sides on the issue, and decided this week to engage in a Crossfire-style debate over the good and the bad of the possible addition of Russell Wilson to the Tigers’ roster.

The Spring of Dye continues with an autograph card, recently rediscovered and submitted by TWER reader Steven Porter, from Auburn’s 1987 Fan Day [click to enlarge]. The stain around Eric Ramsey’s signature (just below Coach Dye’s photo) appeared by itself on September 27, 1991. Porter, who was 11 in 1987, says on crisp Autumn days [...]

In case you missed it, Wednesday was a busy day for Auburn athletics across the board, with fans welcoming new players, saying goodbye to others, and everything in between—not to mention the SEC baseball tournament action in Hoover. Here now are a few odds and ends (with links, thoughts, and quotes) from just an average [...]

The assurance that “no crystal footballs were harmed in the making of these videos” is getting more and more… poignant… with each new episode of The Crystal Capers [watch the first one here]. But damn if it isn’t exhilarating watching Eli Jolley, the Youth North American Bridge Champion, son of “our” “own” Dr. Jolley, and [...]

Cam Newton hasn’t forgotten Wright’s Mill Road Elementary School. In April, the No. 1 draft pick participated in a 30 minute conference call with the four Wright’s Mill Road students he mentored each week last fall. “I gathered [the boys] in my office and he asked them how their grades were doing, how their behavior [...]