TieTry.com, a business built off the Netflix model, is the brainchild of 2003 Auburn graduates Scott Tindle and David Powers. It allows subscribers the opportunity to “borrow” ties just as Netflix allows users to borrow movies.

Courtney Porter, a 2009 Auburn graduate, will compete in the 2012 Miss America Pageant tomorrow night. Twenty years ago (more or less), Auburn had another another alumna hoping to hear “There she is…”—Wendy Neuendorf. In 2006, Neuendorf  (now Wendy Neuendorf McDougal) was interviewed by the Decatur Daily for a story on the direction of the [...]

Sure, it was during the weird, late 90′s reign of the WCW—anything past WrestleMania VI is beneath me—but fewer things better confirm that Auburn indeed exists outside our hearts and minds than hearing “Aubuuurn University” bellowed over a sea of mulleted NWO disciples. So thank you, Pro Football Hall of Fame finalist, Kevin Greene… thank [...]

The guy with the long blond hair walked on and played two seasons at Auburn. He was drafted by the Birmingham Stallions (remember them?) and then went on to a huge career in the NFL. Now Kevin Greene can say he had a Hall of Fame caliber career. Greene is still tied for second on the [...]

Regarding Auburn’s eclectic, esoteric mascot culture, we now test the talons of our historical expertise on “the Auburn Tiger”—that’s how Pam Smith’s husband proudly referred to her when I called to make sure I had the right person. And I did. And though that title doesn’t accompany her name in the 1971 Glomerata, that’s what she looks like in the photo, lying on the field in front of the cheerleaders in a plush, hooded tiger-striped jumpsuit.

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.

Auburn hats are becoming almost common place in “extreme job-related, boy-don’t-these-folks-talk-funny reality shows.”

What time is it? If you ask Zac Etheridge, he’d tell you it’s time to “Keep Moving 4ward.”

Montgomery native Octavia Spencer, who graduated from Auburn in 1994, was recently nominated for Best Supporting Actress by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG Awards) for her critically acclaimed performance as a maid in Civil Rights-era Mississippi in the 2011 film “The Help.” Today she got the same treatment from the Hollywood Foreign Press (Golden Globes)—an [...]

She had us at Reuben.