Barrett Trotter was good enough in Auburn’s Chick-fil-A Bowl win over Virginia for AUltered Ego to have this ready for us in the 4th quarter. (Best part? That’s Chizik’s real hair.) Happy New Year’s, everyone. It’s great to be an Auburn Tiger. … Keep Reading: * LeBron James starts SuperCamming fad * The Bo Jackson of [...]

The Good Guys: There’s a big difference between finishing a season 8-5 and finishing it 7-6. I don’t even have to tell you what a boost the Outback Bowl victory over Northwestern at the end of 2009 was in propelling the Tigers to a national championship run in 2010. Now Auburn enters the Chick-fil-A Bowl [...]

Just when Times Square has you maybe once again kind of entertaining the idea that the pop-culture pressure cooker of dot com consciousness might have already achieved for Cam Newton in 2011 a greater celebrity than Bo Jackson’s in 1990, you’re reminded of the iconic “Ball Player” photo King Konging half of a Los Angeles [...]

This is a photo of a boy named Parker, the young lad in the Auburn hat who was given a football by Cam Newton during the Carolina Panthers’ Christmas Eve route of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and it is worth every word ever said about Cam Newton by every Auburn fan ever. Thank you, Parker, [...]

Born in the glorious wake of his touchdown dive against South Carolina last year (Victory the First), Cam Newton’s signature celebration—a mimed transformation from Clark Kent to Superman—isn’t just being ripped off by lesser gods of college football this year, it’s being appropriated by NBA All-Stars. Last night, after the game-winning bucket against the Charlotte [...]

Gene Chizik turned 50 today and celebrated with his closest critics. … Keep Reading: * The Bo Jackson of Bo Jackson collections * Auburn vet saves Lady Hoggers * The 1973 Delta Chi Miss Hot Pants pageant * Bjork wrote a song about Auburn’s “Hey Day” * Crazy Auburn mural at Firehouse subs * Auburn [...]

Auburn’s revamped 2012 conference schedule accomodating the addition of Texas A&M and Missouri into the SEC was released today. Auburn dropped its road game at Florida next season in order to play the Aggies at home. Here’s a look via the Dec. 6, 1990 isse of The Auburn Plainsman at how we processed news of the last [...]

Giant Cam Newton returned to Times Square yesterday. Photos of the Blessed Individual’s photo shoot for ESPN The Magazine’s NEXT issue were splashed across ABC’s SuperSign, the display serving as an announcement that Newton made the cover of the perennial This Person Is About To Change The Game concept issue. It was the first time [...]

… and Cam might make it yet.

David Painter has turned his 1,200 square ft. basement into a veritable Bo Jackson museum. His collection has been featured in various newspapers. It’s been featured in Sports Collectors’ Digest. When Auburn’s athletic museum needed pieces for a display to commemorate Bo’s induction into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1998, they called Painter.