The Toomer’s Corner eagle statues will return to their perches sometime Thursday and will be officially unveiled Friday at 10 a.m. as part of A-Day weekend festivities, according to a source with The Lathan Company, the Mobile-based historic preservation company in charge of the statues’ restoration. In November, the marble statues were removed and sent to Washington D.C. for cleaning [...]

They appeared over the winter—two vertical fissures only on the southwest side of the Toomer’s Corner oak closest to College Street. They look like the marks left on a tree if it’s struck by lightning, except they don’t—lightning tracks start at the top of the tree and end at the bottom. The fissures on the [...]

The bronze statues of Auburn’s Three Heismen have all been delivered to their permanent home outside the east entrance of Jordan-Hare Stadium. The statues will be covered and kept under 24-hour police guard until they’re unveiled Saturday before Auburn’s A-Day game. The bronze statues of Auburn’s Three Heismen have all been delivered to their permanent [...]

On Friday the bust of John Heisman was installed outside Jordan-Hare. Today it was a statue of one of Auburn’s Heisman Trophy winners. But which one? Pat Sullivan seems a likely guess. The statue is currently covered with a blue tarp that appears to conceal the outline of quarterback’s throwing motion; the statues were designed [...]

The statues honoring Auburn’s three Heisman Trophy winners, Pat Sullivan, Bo Jackson, and Cam Newton will be installed some time next week according to Cassie Arner, Auburn’s assistant athletic director for public relations. But how will Auburn keep the statues under wraps until they’re unveiled a few hours before next Saturday’s annual A-Day game? By [...]

Around 1:20, he even gets in on a tackle. And no one bats an eye.

Talk about oral history—last week, former Auburn wide receiver Prechae Rodriguez hauled in the game-winning touchdown as time expired in the Tampa Bay Storm’s first ever win over the Jacksonville Sharks, and if we see the logo we think we see in this photo snapped just after he did, he may not have changed mouth [...]

Toomer’s Corner will soon be opening a branch in Cullman, ba dum chhh. But no, seriously—they won’t be related by blood or anything like the regularly rolled oak planted last year on Capitol Hill, but the Toomer’s Oaks will likely soon have a new namesake of sorts in north Alabama thanks to Cullman’s Rotary Club [...]

This is not the greatest defense in the world, this is just a tribute. We’ll always remember the greatest D in the world (2004). This is just a tribute.

The Three Heismen won’t be the only former Auburn football greats honored A-Day weekend. Former All-American defensive back Carlos Rogers and Bill Cody, a star linebacker for Auburn in the 1960s, will be inducted into the Tiger Trail during a ceremony at Auburn Arena on Friday, April 13… you know, the Tiger Trail, the granite [...]