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Newspapers, AP described Bama’s 1961 national championship as its first
We know that, once upon a Tide, folks at Alabama thought that Auburn had them beat on the national title race by four whole years. But what about papers other than the Crimson-White? Did Joe Reporter covering Wherever, USA think that Bama’s 1961 national championship was its very first? And not 1925 or 1926 or 1930 or […]
In 1989, Pat Dye was all about Auburn playing UAB if the Blazers fielded a football team; Alabama’s Bill Curry said never
Never. Never, ever. Alabama would never play UAB in football, because UAB should never ever even have a football team, former Crimson Tide coach Bill Curry shouted from the Capstone’s gilded rooftop in 1989—”We have a team in the University system and I’m the coach”— when the Blazers first dared dream of gridiron glory. So […]
Culture
Auburn student stars in national Hooters commercials
Thankfully for Laiken Baumgartner, the title of Miss Hooters International seems to have come with some job security.
Childhood cancer survivor declares for Auburn on the ‘TODAY’ show
The virus thought it could keep Auburn signs from showing up on the TODAY show plaza. The virus was wrong. Flanked by her parents, homemade Auburn sign in hand, New Jersey teenager Emily Calabro, whose battle against a rare form of brain cancer has received no small degree of attention over the years — she’d […]
Auburn psychology grad model turned international model Gilda Joelle Osborn stars in new Tyler Farr music video
It was supposed to be her year. “I laughed the other day thinking about that article,” she says. Yes, despite ringing in 2020 with a big Lilly Pulitzer job, a Daily Mail post on her perfect skin, and Maxim describing her as a “dreamy mix of beauty and brains” in the magazine’s final What a Beautiful […]