When he walked at graduation William H. Holley, like many before and since, shook the hand of the university’s president, Dr. Bradford Knapp. At that time the president lived in Cater Hall. The governor was Bibb Graves. Know those names? The oaks at Toomer’s hadn’t been planted yet. Toomer’s Drugs was still competing with Homer [...]

How many Auburn grads does it take to save what the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates to be at least 26,000 lives?

If you’re an Auburn fan and love it, you’ll probably love it more. If you hate it, you’ll probably have to tolerate it now, or at least hate it a little less. Either way, you’ll probably never listen to it the same way again… unless of course you already knew that the undisputed heavyweight champion of Christmas novelty songs was recorded by an Auburn Man.

For a few weeks in early 2008, there was but one goddess of the Auburn internet. She was an Auburn student named Jessica Trainham. And she was a cheerleader.

For the Atlanta Falcons.

The success of Dale’s Pale Ale (the New York Times called it the Top American Pale Ale) comes as little surprise—the recipe was perfected in the bathtub of a trailer off Wire Road.

No matter how well Apparel Production Design major Haley Ann does in school, her college claim to fame won’t have anything to do with how well she made or designed clothes but how well she took them off. Or at least her tank top. Or at least most of it. At Chewacla State Park. In the dark. It was fun.

Wonder Woman is an Auburn fan. So is Joan from Mad Men. And Dr. Girlfriend from the Venture Brothers… which is all old news to any orange and blue clad photo-oppers who’ve happened to attend the Chick-Fil-A Kick Off Classic in the last few years. Each Labor Day weekend, the game shares downtown Atlanta with Dragon*Con, the world’s largest sci-fi / fantasy convention, and one of the biggest events on cosplay extraordinaire Katie George’s calendar.

They walk through a screen door and there he is, calm and unmoving, holding a paperback copy of William Faulkner’s “Three Famous Short Novels”, one of the fingers on his right hand holding a spot near the halfway point. Without looking up he places the book on a table adjacent to his rocking chair.
“Y’all come on around here and get what you need. Hell, you’re late.”

Terry Rodriguez: local artist, aspiring city councilwoman, Auburn’s first nude model… or so we’d heard. When we ran into Terry at one of the recent Toomer’s cellobrations (hence the background music), we decided it was time to whip out the Flip and sleuth for the truth. … Keep Reading: * That time Green Day played [...]

Name your son Crimson, Tyde, or Bear and people will automatically think he’s a redneck.
Name your son Auburn, and people will automatically think he’s putting on airs, at least if he’s an actor.
“They thought I’d made up some pretentious stage name,” laughs Auburn Brit Whittle. “I was like, no, that really is my real name.”