It may not be a Spread Sheets (yet), but Magruder has returned, and brought the fire with him.

Tenth in WBE’s season preview series. Previously, the offense: QBs, RBs, the OL, and WRs. The defense: the DL, LBs. The special teams. Also: expectations, and the SEC. THE CAST The Starters: CBs Neiko Thorpe (6’2″, 186, Jr.), Demond Washington (5’9″, 182, Sr.); S’s Zac Etheridge (6’0″, 213, Sr.), Aairon Savage (5’11″, 200, Sr.) The [...]

The lifestyle to which our boys wanted to grow accustomed depends on it.

Ninth in WBE’s season preview series. Previously, the offense: QBs, RBs, the OL, and WRs. The defense: the DL, LBs. Also: expectations, and the SEC. THE CAST The Starters: PK/KS Wes Byrum (6’2″, 216, Sr.); P Ryan Shoemaker (6’0″, 177, Sr.); KR Demond Washington (5’9″, 182, Sr.), Onterio McCalebb (5’10″, 171, So.); PR Quindarius Carr [...]

A week-by-week preview of Auburn’s 2010 opponents. But since you can find straightforward overviews in a half-dozen magazines and a ton of places across the web, these are a little more … disposable. Light. Cheese-puffy. Previously: Arkansas St., Mississippi St., Clemson, South Carolina, UL-Monroe, Kentucky, Arkansas, LSU, Ole Miss. Presenting: Georgia! (I was going to [...]

First in a season-long series of football verse from TWER poet lAUreate Amorak Huey.

Eighth in WBE’s season preview series. Previously, the offense: the QBs, the RBs, the OL, and the WRs. Defense: the DL. Also: expectations, and the SEC. THE CAST The Starters: LLB Craig Stevens (6’4″, 229, Sr.), MLB Josh Bynes (6’2″, 235, Sr.), RLB Daren Bates (5’11″, 203, So.) The Backups: Jonathan Evans (5’11″, 230, So.), [...]

Hey, remember this series? No. 5 was Deangelo Benton, No. 4 the safety contingent. As a playwright wrote once: attention must be paid. Must be. The first picture is of senior center Ryan Pugh. The second, senior left tackle Lee Ziemba. Between them, they have started 59 straight games. They have won All-Freshman honors, All-SEC [...]

Andrew Gribble just posted Auburn’s depth chart under the heading “Auburn releases depth chart, doesn’t surprise anyone with anything,” and while that’s a slight exaggeration, it ain’t that far off, either. If you and I had sat down and drawn out what we expected Auburn’s two-deep to look like, we wouldn’t have been more than [...]

Seventh in WBE’s season preview series. Previously, the offense: the QBs, the RBs, the OL, and the WRs. Also: expectations, and the SEC. THE CAST The Starters: DEs Antoine Carter (6’4″, 256, Sr.) at “quick” and Michael Goggans (6’3″, 261, Sr.) at “power”; DTs Mike Blanc (6’4″, 297, Sr.), Zach Clayton (6’3″, 296, Sr.) and/or [...]