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Last week, EDSBS suggested a roll-able, robot Jimmy Rane could fill the celebratory void at Toomer’s Corner.  The Committee to Determine the Future of Rolling Toomer’s Corner would have welcomed the idea. In fact, included in the sample of suggestions printed in the report recently released by the committee, amid genuine horror at the prospect [...]

An Auburn gymnastics meet is something different from most things you’ve seen in sports. There isn’t a ball, a bat, a club, or a racquet. There are hand grips and chalk powder. Stripe-suited referees are replaced by judges seated at a scoring table. Gone is the green of a playing field or the reflective shine [...]

Auburn folk are forestry pros from way back, right? So why in the world did the dudes who planted the trees—and surely their prominent placement implies that their planters intended them to live long and prosper as objects of at least some reverence—decide on live oaks, a species whose less than ideal relationship with Auburn’s [...]

The only thing I could think about at the committee meeting last week: what’s going to happen to them if / when they’re removed? So I asked. Hmm. Good question. Brief discussion. Maybe some sort of monument? Put it on display somewhere? Not sure. Now a new idea about what to do with the Toomer’s [...]

I’ll be holding the Auburn Network studios hostage yet again tonight (Occupy Hubbard), this time brandishing the sweet sounds of Auburn yesteryear. My only demand? Your undivided, delicious attention. And a pizza. Tune in to The Drive on 106.5 FM or www.ESPNAU.com at 5 pm (or start an hour earlier if you want the best [...]

If you plant them, they will roll—in 3-5 years. But plant what?

The recommendation that one or more large trees replace the Toomer’s Oaks, and for a temporary solution to be developed and implemented in order to continue the tradition of rolling Toomer’s Corner, was approved by Auburn University president Dr. Jay Gogue earlier this week. The recommendation was delivered to Gogue by the Committee to Determine [...]

Ed. note: When the most prolific and articulate Auburn blogger on the internet takes his talents to CBS Sports and his 9 to 5 to a new baby, it’s going to leave a void—not only for The War Eagle Reader, but for the Auburn internet entire. “Asked and Answered” is our new, quickfire attempt to [...]

God obviously knew something was wrong—what do you mean the Blessed Individual didn’t make the Pro Bowl his rookie year?—so last night he sent the New York Giants to the Super Bowl. That means that Cam Newton will (almost certainly) be taking Eli Manning’s place on the NFC squad on Jan. 29 in Hawaii. In [...]