So popular has Tiger Pause: Tracking Auburn in Pop Culture become even Bama fans feel obligated to cough and jerk their heads toward Auburn hoodies (thank you, Matthew Phillips). This particular Auburn hoodie is being regularly worn by David Jaffe, a video game developer who seems to have garnered a bit of cult following by [...]

What we know for sure is that it brought out the cameras. And hallelujah, the one belonging to Cecil Bridges had some Kodachrome in it. And if there’s anything that can give you a feel of what rolling wires and lines and anything but trees might be like, it’s these never before seen COLOR photos—the only we know of—of real people living just like we live: blue blue jeans, orange spray paint, taste the rainbow, kiss the dragon.

An Auburn gymnastics meet is something different from most things you’ve seen in sports. There isn’t a ball, a bat, a club, or a racquet. There are hand grips and chalk powder. Stripe-suited referees are replaced by judges seated at a scoring table. Gone is the green of a playing field or the reflective shine [...]

Auburn folk are forestry pros from way back, right? So why in the world did the dudes who planted the trees—and surely their prominent placement implies that their planters intended them to live long and prosper as objects of at least some reverence—decide on live oaks, a species whose less than ideal relationship with Auburn’s [...]

And it don’t stop for Octavia Spencer.

The only thing I could think about at the committee meeting last week: what’s going to happen to them if / when they’re removed? So I asked. Hmm. Good question. Brief discussion. Maybe some sort of monument? Put it on display somewhere? Not sure. Now a new idea about what to do with the Toomer’s [...]

I’ll be holding the Auburn Network studios hostage yet again tonight (Occupy Hubbard), this time brandishing the sweet sounds of Auburn yesteryear. My only demand? Your undivided, delicious attention. And a pizza. Tune in to The Drive on 106.5 FM or www.ESPNAU.com at 5 pm (or start an hour earlier if you want the best [...]

If you plant them, they will roll—in 3-5 years. But plant what?

The recommendation that one or more large trees replace the Toomer’s Oaks, and for a temporary solution to be developed and implemented in order to continue the tradition of rolling Toomer’s Corner, was approved by Auburn University president Dr. Jay Gogue earlier this week. The recommendation was delivered to Gogue by the Committee to Determine [...]

Ed. note: When the most prolific and articulate Auburn blogger on the internet takes his talents to CBS Sports and his 9 to 5 to a new baby, it’s going to leave a void—not only for The War Eagle Reader, but for the Auburn internet entire. “Asked and Answered” is our new, quickfire attempt to [...]