Today starts the new football season, and probably a new era with Auburn football with Gene Chizick as head coach. I have spoken to Gene several time over the off season and he is always cool as a cucumber,
I wish him all the best as he starts what has to be one of the most [...]
This past Saturday we went to the annual A-Day game here in Auburn. For those unfamiliar with what we (and Bama folks) call an A-Day game, it is when between 40,000-90,000 people come to their respective stadium to see their team play each other. More like a glorified open Spring practice, but one because it [...]
Auburn ended their home basketball season on an up note beating #11 ranked LSU 69-53. This ended a season that started off looking like all the others over the last 10 years and now looks like a possible NCAA bid. They will head to Tampa for the SEC Tournament and then hopefully on to the [...]
I love walking around in the heart of Auburn sports on campus. For the basketball game today we parked in the Jordan Hare Stadium parking lot, as many do, and I shot this photo as we walked by the stadium. Directly across the parking lot is the new $92.5 million Auburn Basketball Arena being built [...]
Auburn went back to the conference play today and we went to see the 1:00 pm start in Auburn against Vanderbilt. Perhaps a game Auburn should have won but in the end Auburn came up short. It was all offense on both sides today with no one playing a tight defense. As always Deb and [...]
Today we went to see the #6 Auburn Tigers vs #10 Tennessee Vols basketball game, which drew an all time record crowd of 12,067 fans. This was the largest crowd to see a basketball game in Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum ever in its current configuration. Listed as a maximum as a 10,500 feet arena, it [...]
What a great game Auburn played today. It was a total domination by Auburn and Alabama never really got going at all. Where was this team when they played the Florida Gators last week? They hit 3-pointers, free throws, played a great defense and actually stepped it up on offense. Mark Gottfried (see photo below) [...]
The game was much better than I would guess many expected, but Auburn had a chance to win the game at the end with 15 seconds to go on the 14 yard line with 3 plays to punch it in and just couldn’t do it (see AP story). No help from the refs in this [...]
It is still Friday at the moment, so I didn’t miss my Friday feet post, just came later in the day this time. Tonight Deb and I went to the opening game of the 2008-2009 basketball season here in Auburn. It was a long day and it was nice to sit down for a few [...]
This week Auburn seemed to be lucky to squeak out a win over an unranked 1-2 Tennessee team, but a win is a win. The remaining games are not going to get much easier, and next week what would seem like an easy game now seems to be a tough conference game against an undefeated [...]