OK, so I was wrong. Auburn’s most important game of the season wasn’t two weeks ago against Ole Miss. It’s Saturday against Georgia. In Athens. Yes, beating the Rebels was a must for the Tigers if they wanted to finish the dreaded month of October with a winning record after playing three top-10 teams on [...]
Eltoro Freeman waited his turn, splitting starts with Adam Herring at outside linebacker over the first seven weeks in 2009 before recording 12 stops against LSU in October and taking over the spot for good. Or so he thought. Freeman got injured against Georgia, was replaced by Jonathan Evans, and recorded only one tackle in [...]
It’s up to Auburn’s players to tell coach Tony Barbee when they need to come out. If you’re out there, Barbee reasons, you’re expected to give as much as you can for as long as you can and — once you feel yourself start to slip — it’s up to you to motion to the [...]
The Auburn women’s basketball team has spent the past two years trying to live up to the 2008-09 team, the one that won the SEC regular season title and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Tigers went 30-4 that year. They’ve gone 31-32 since. “It’s been hard. It’s hard on you [...]
Trovon Reed didn’t want to say it was frustrating sitting out three games with a shoulder injury after missing his entire true freshman year — save for two snaps — with knee issues. But, after searching around for adjectives and other ways to describe his mindset sitting out the middle portion of Auburn’s slate, Reed [...]
When you play with someone throughout high school, you get a feeling for his tendencies. What he does well, what he could stand to work on. And, more importantly, what can get under his skin. Auburn defensive tackle Gabe Wright has a whole file on Georgia running back Isaiah Crowell — his high-school teammate at [...]
Philip Lutzenkirchen found some open real estate in the flat, reached his right hand out and speared the football like his glove was covered in Krazy Glue. He turned upfield and switched the ball to his left hand effortlessly, sneaking it just inside the pylon for a 4-yard touchdown catch before Ole Miss’ Damien Jackson [...]
Karen Hoppa can confidently say her Auburn soccer team is playing its best ball of the season at just the right time. It’s kind of a new feeling for her. “It’s great when your team can peak at the right time,” Hoppa said. “And we have not done that in past years. The last three [...]
Cornerback T’Sharvan Bell’s been through the Georgia-alabama gauntlet in each of the past two years. The junior has coined a phrase to help explain just what playing two of Auburn’s most bitter rivals in quick succession means to the younger players on the team. “I like to call them ‘club rockers,’” Bell said. “When it’s [...]
Auburn was idle last week, but still gained ground in the BCS. The Tigers (6-3, 4-2 SEC) moved up two spots to No. 20 in the BCS standings Sunday, matching their highest point of the season after starting at No. 20, dropping to No. 23 after the LSU loss and moving up to No. 22 [...]
