I’ve been to Arkansas once. Or rather, I have been through Arkansas once. I drove through a corner of it during a cross country trip that started in Alabama and ended in Hawaii (full disclosure: I didn’t drive the last leg). Arkansas is pleasant enough, if you don’t stop while traversing it’s highways from state […]
Auburn Softball rules
You will have to forgive me, but what follows is social commentary. I know, we get preached at enough from all corners, but in this you will have to indulge me. Auburn University (my alma mater) has a softball team. It’s had one for almost 20 years. And to be perfectly frank, I have not […]
Silent Cheers: An Auburn fan copes with press box professionalism
I am an Auburn Fan. If you have read any of my previous pieces (articles? blogs? posts? What do you call these things, anyway? “Pieces” makes them sound like works of art. Which, of course, they are. I am way too humble to point out this obvious fact, yet there it is. But I digress…), […]
Damn you, Auburn
Damn you, Auburn. Damn you for making me care. Damn you for being irresistible. Damn you for making me fall in love with you. Not your football team, but you. All of you. Your campus, your city, your academics, your history, your townspeople and your culture. Damn you for being as close to perfect as […]
Jamie Hampton wears Auburn shirts, advances to French Open’s Round of 16
A list of the dispatched: 25th ranked Lucie Safarova from the Czech Republic 150th ranked Anna Karoline Schmiedlova from Slovakia 7th ranked (and one time Wimbledon champ) Petra Kvitova from the Czech Republic And who did the dispatching? Auburn’s own Jamie Hampton. The 2008 AHS graduate is taking Roland Garros by storm, part of the […]