EDSBS.com was dead in the water Wednesday. Idle hands are LSUFreek’s workshop. Spencer Hall’s perfectly astute description: Not that Gus Malzahn doesn’t already look enough like an amnestied, brilliant, and slightly terrifying Nazi rocket scientist quietly working in the hills surrounding Huntsville, but yes: give him Nick Saban’s hair, and he now has a fully [...]

The USFL chapter in Jim Fyffe’s memoir-ish “Touchdown Auburn!” starts off with a mea culpa of sorts: “I saved Paul Finebaum’s life.” Related: Jim Fyffe’s tombstone. … Keep Reading: * Watch Pat Dye lick sugar off a football * Best Auburn majorette name ever? * Cam Newton on a Segway * The Thing That Ate [...]

All Elvis was doing was thanking people, thanking them very much. All Jim Fyffe was doing was telling people that Auburn had scored a touchdown. On paper, it was the most unoriginal sports catchphrase ever. On the airwaves, it was magic. (Thanks, jackass golfing Bama fan!) Fyffe died 10 years ago today. He once said [...]

The biggest sign that this Toomer’s Oakss trading card is, in fact, a legitimate, officially licensed, actual real thing isn’t the “Auburn” instead of the “Toomer’s,” (’cause that’s important) it’s that someone has already bid it up to $61. And there are still five days left. The eBay description reads: You are bidding on a [...]

It’s getting harder to “remember Dunkirk” after David Housel’s speech at the final rolling of the Toomer’s Oaks, which is fast becoming his most memorable, at least if our search term analytics are any indication (they usually are). A day hasn’t passed since that it’s-OK-to-call-it-epic day that someone hasn’t come to TWER searching for a [...]

In a recent column titled “Panthers going somewhere with Ron Rivera, Cam Newton,” Panthers.com writer Max Henson took a statistical scalpel to an NFL.com column by Adam Schein titled “Carolina Panthers going nowhere with Ron Rivera, Cam Newton.” Henson’s mention of Peyton Manning in his dissection and dismantling of Schein’s critique of Cam Newton inspired [...]

“We’ve begun production on our 2013 NCAA halftime commercial, which will air this August,” Auburn University announced via its Twitter account this afternoon. “Recognize anyone?” There in the middle, right where The War Eagle Reader said last week he would be. At least one of the men behind the camera for this year’s commercial is [...]

I mean, if five-star linebackers are coming to play for you because you’re the only team whose school can help them fulfill their dreams of becoming pilots, then yeah, this video of Kris Frost learning to fly could be some fresh win/wind beneath the wings of the efforts to save Auburn’s aviation program. (Richard Simmons [...]

Yesterday, Tigers Unlimited members who renewed their football season tickets got a phone call from the guy some said they’d never hear from again. “Cam (Newton) and I were discussing how awesome it was for 83,000 plus to attend A-Day and then celebrate at Toomer’s Corner,” says Tim Jackson, Auburn’s Executive Associate Athletic Director. “Cam [...]

UPDATE: AU professor says ‘anyone’ could have caught Tre Mason’s squirrel. It’s the kind of tweet you can only dream of spotting from an Auburn running back: “Catch squirrels to test your speed!” That was Tre Mason late Monday afternoon, seemingly solidifying Auburn’s latest greatest claim to fame—Squirrel Catcher U.—like Onterio McCalebb and Bo before [...]