It took almost three years, but ol’ Harvey Updyke proved the only thing he’s ever been capable of proving, that spirit goes beyond a football game, that a place is more than a jersey, and heart is more than a scoreboard. Saturday was the big day, the last roll of the old Toomer’s Corner oaks. [...]
“Decades of Dominance: Auburn Football in the Modern Era” is written by your TWER friends Van Allen Plexico and John Ringer. They write columns. They record podcasts. They write books. They’re here, now, in 311 pages (including appendices and references) to convince those that have forgotten, not realized or would like to conveniently misremember just [...]
Aubie was testifying at trials. J&M was holding suggestive “dry T-shirt sales.” Signs on the Haley Center were threatening to nuke Iran until they glowed. Times were different. In 1979, looks like you had to get your Momma’s Love—at least so-called—elsewhere. But you could get plenty of tongue, liverworst or corned beef from a young [...]
“Lazy and bored,” Parker Owen found inspiration in old bicycle designs. The Alabama School of Math and Science student turned that into an idea for human prosthetics. That’s some Saturday night. On a quest for mobility, Owen found a way he could help out some of the people he’ll meet on an upcoming mission trip [...]
Dear New Auburn Men, War Eagle and congratulations on your decision to enroll at Auburn University. Football is an important reason why you’re coming to Auburn. Football will occupy a lot of your time. Football isn’t the most important reason you’re coming here. You’re coming here because you’ve become convinced that Auburn is a great [...]
You Don’t Know Bo. But you do, because he’s Auburn. There are allusions here to the mythos of Bo. We’re all a part of the mythos of Bo by now. After all of these years Bo is Auburn is us. And so is this documentary, in a way. You’re going to watch it, all of it, frame [...]
You know who’s smart? Jonathan Hood, a doctoral student in Auburn’s computer science and software engineering program. (He’s totally in your computer. And maybe your WiFi.) He’s also taken thriftiness to an art form, which has earned the attention of Yahoo! and Business Insider ( He has this thing, you see, for shopping for rebates, and [...]
We’re not saying we believe every leprechaun story. We’re not saying we believe there’s gold here — settle down and mind your own yard, Dan Mullen. And we’re not saying this is an omen or a sign or a prediction of any sort. We don’t want to Sheridan* this up and get into a foolhardy series of prognostications**. We [...]
The U.S. men slid out of the medal count in the team gymnastics competition, but imagine if the Tigers had sent these guys … to St. Louis … to the 1904 games. These men represent the height of flexibility and agility at Auburn at the turn of the century. Take that Danell Leyva and your [...]
Aubie bragged about the university’s medals after the 2008 Olympics. Why not? People who bleed orange and blue won more bling than many of the countries nations that showed up in Beijing, tying Spain and Canada at 14th among nations with 18 trips to the podium. And though Aubie’s petition to have the fight song [...]
