This is your brain on Auburn Basketball.
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 [...]
It’s a standard rule with a standard concept of “professional respect.” When one of the so-called “big boys” runs an article, and a smaller outlet provides good information that contradicts, the “big boy” at least acknowledges it. Not when the “big boy” is ESPN, apparently. Let’s trace this one. First, Friday evening, Mark Schlabach of [...]
Arkansas State? Really? Arkansas State? Call us naïve, but we always assumed that when Gus Malzahn left Auburn it would be in a platinum-plated Learjet to become the head coach at a top-shelf BCS-type school. The situation that has developed this week is a little tougher for us to handle, and for multiple reasons –not [...]
There is one thing related to the Heisman Trophy that Alabama will never have, can never have. Sure, Auburn remains the only school where John Heisman coached football to have a player win the Heisman Trophy. We know this. We brag about it in media guides. We put it on T-shirts. But I’m talking more than trivia. I’m talking about something physically and emotionally tangible. I’m talking about a letter.
For the Auburn Tigers, the 1980s did not end on Dec. 2 or even Dec. 31, 1989. No, for Auburn football, the decade of the Eighties actually ended on a slick field in Tampa, Florida on January 1, 1990, vs. the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Hall of Fame Bowl
Let’s sit down and watch the game—for the first time in two decades, for some of us—and talk about it.
Dr. John Carvalho did not ask them about the Erin Andrews-Auburn boyfriend thing. It’s called journalism.