T’Sharvan Bell, in many ways, served as a second coming of Josh Bynes this season for the Tigers. Dreadlocks flying, smile flashing, Bell was a vocal leader to his teammates and always one of the first to congratulate after a big hit. He was one of the most experienced pieces on a defense that sorely [...]
Frankie Sullivan’s not all the way back from the ACL tear that cost him all but six games last season. But the junior guard’s shot, at least, is starting to look the way it did before the injury. Sullivan hit five 3-pointers and poured in 22 points Monday night, as Auburn downed Kennesaw State, 68-55, [...]
If Auburn’s season opener was any indication, the Tigers can look to a number of different sources for scoring this year. Three Auburn players scored in double figures in the Tigers’ 77-43 win over Mercer on Friday — Tyrese Tanner (14), Blanche Alverson and Hasina Muhammad (12 each) — and two more — Jassany Williams [...]
Your average football fan would look at Auburn’s homecoming matchup with Samford this weekend and see an easy win for the Tigers. After watching his team’s 45-7 dismantling at the hands of Georgia on Saturday, Gene Chizik is not your average football fan. “If you saw us play yesterday,” the Auburn head coach said, “we’re [...]
Junior cornerback T’Sharvan Bell is out for the rest of the year with a knee injury he suffered in the third quarter against Georgia, head coach Gene Chizik said Sunday. Bell, who started the first 10 games for the Tigers, will have surgery on his left knee later this week, Chizik said. The junior went [...]
Auburn put in its best offensive performance under Tony Barbee in its season opener against McNeese State on Friday night, shooting 53.2 percent from the field and scoring 80 points in regulation for the first time in the second-year coach’s tenure. It was an encouraging sign for a team that struggled mightily on offense last [...]
ATHENS, Ga. — This wasn’t the No. 1 team in the country. This wasn’t a national title contender with a suffocating defense and a habit of making decent teams look foolish. This was Georgia, which — while it sits atop the SEC East — hadn’t beaten either of the ranked teams it had played on [...]
ATHENS, Ga. – Twelve plays, 70 yards, touchdown. Six plays, 77 yards, touchdown. Six plays, 40 yards, touchdown. And just like that it was over — Georgia 21, Auburn 7 — a little less than 20 minutes into the 115th meeting of the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry. Georgia scored on three of its first four [...]
ATHENS, Ga. – Mike Dyer took a handoff on Auburn’s first play of the second half against Georgia on Saturday and ran 17 yards for a first down. It was more than just an auspicious beginning to the final 30 minutes for a feature back that struggled to 4 yards on six carries in the [...]
Trooper Taylor didn’t really want to get in Nick Fairley’s way. He just felt he had to. “It’s like going into the pen with a tiger,” Taylor said. “You really don’t want to go in there and grab him, but you know if somebody doesn’t, you have to save him. “I tried to calm him [...]
