Well, of course the names of Auburn men are among the Apollo Program Management staff bios in NASA's official moon mission press kit released to media members 10 days before the launch... ALL WE DO IS GINN. Happy 50th launch-a-versary! Related: Auburn grad in line for Apollo 11 flight wanted ‘War Eagle’ to be first words spoken on the moon. … [Read more...] about The Auburn men of the Apollo 11 press kit
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When Bo went over the top, an Auburn man drank an Old Milwaukee on national TV
Click play and pay attention to the guy who thinks nothing in life could be better than downing a cold brew with his buds after a hard day’s crabbin’. If you were at Auburn in the early 70s, you knew him as Mike Wilson, 1973-74 SGA Vice President, a Spade, Most Outstanding Lambda Chi Alpha undergraduate in the nation in 1973-74, the works. (And he happened to be in Dr. … [Read more...] about When Bo went over the top, an Auburn man drank an Old Milwaukee on national TV
Auburn gymnast whose gruesome injury went viral still plans to walk down the aisle in two months
Nope, the most talked about Auburn sporting moment of the past week wasn't the legalization of double dribbling—it was the double dislocations. She may not have technically broken her legs as first reported. But senior Auburn gymnast Sam Cerio did break the internet. The gruesome footage is everywhere. Overseas. Over other seas. We're actually up to New Jersey DJ … [Read more...] about Auburn gymnast whose gruesome injury went viral still plans to walk down the aisle in two months
The British are coming (to an Auburn football game)
In 1990, Denise Ford swore she'd never return to America. That's how much she hated George Strait and Clint Black and Reba and the Elvis Presley Automobile Museum and pretty much everything else she heard and saw in Tennessee. "I felt like I was in the 1950s." She was with her parents on holiday. Her dad was considering taking a job in the states. The trip lasted three … [Read more...] about The British are coming (to an Auburn football game)
The Fall and Rise of Pat Dye’s Pants
It was Saturday, Dec. 8, 2007, the millionth day of a 100-year, shadow-of-death drought that the Associated Press voted the state of Alabama’s top news story that year, bigger than that horrible tornado in Enterprise, bigger than the governor going to federal prison for bribery. Nearly 2 million residents were living under water restrictions, including folks in Tallapoosa … [Read more...] about The Fall and Rise of Pat Dye’s Pants