Sometimes ‘Auburn Family’ just makes sense. Sometimes, no matter what journalism school or conventional writing etiquette tells you, you just have to come out and say it. Sometimes there isn’t any other way to describe it. This weekend was one of those times. The Auburn Family rolled the trees at Toomer’s Corner for the final […]
All Auburn, AubOrange
Close to home
Auburn changed over the course of this past week. I saw it happen with my own eyes. I feel like I was here for it almost every step of the way. I wasn’t here when it all started, though. I was out of town at our family’s farm in middle-of-nowhere Alabama for a reunion. Like […]
QUIET STRENGTH: Chizik guides a family
The photo has been passed along and shared through social media. Featured on blogs and message boards. Displayed on the front page of the Auburn athletics official website. It’s drawn appreciation and instilled admiration. It has actually uplifted spirits. It’s of Auburn head football coach Gene Chizik, standing at a podium, preparing to speak to the […]
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When I first came to Auburn, I wasn’t a journalism major. Writing wasn’t a part of the plan. Auburn — this university, this town — always was. In high school, the only schools I even applied to were Auburn and, just in case, Southern Union. I had seen too much of Auburn, too much of […]
The Aesthetics of Auburn Athletics, 2011
After weeks of discussing how Auburn has looked on-the-field, we now take the time to appreciate and critique how they looked off-the-field — unless, of course, we’re talking about the field. In what is sure to once again raise discussion and incite a couple of riots in the comments below, we’ll take a close look […]