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March 20, 2010
10 AU players to keep an eye on this spring
AUBURN — Jobs aren’t necessarily won during spring football, but a strong first impression certainly doesn’t hurt.
March 19, 2010
Tubby Smith says AU hasn’t offered
AUBURN — If Tubby Smith is, in fact, interested in the Auburn job and on the verge of taking it, he’ll have to go back on his word and disappoint plenty of Minnesota fans on his way back to the South.
March 15, 2010
Phil Paramore: No doubt who’s calling the shots at Auburn
There should now be no debating who is calling the shots at the Auburn athletics department. His name is Jay Jacobs
March 12, 2010
Johnson column: Chuck Person should get first call
Most Auburn supporters wanted Jeff Lebo to succeed — to at least have a chance of making it into the new Auburn Arena as the Tigers’ basketball coach.
Auburn begins search for new basketball coach
AUBURN — For moments, when he contemplated the future of Auburn’s basketball program, Jay Jacobs pretended that the big, new, $92.5 million arena sitting outside his window was a mirage.
March 11, 2010
Szvetitz column: Lebo mum on future
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — If you haven’t heard by now, don’t expect Jeff Lebo to let you in on what’s going on.
Chuck Person would listen if college coaching job came open
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Just going by his resume, Chuck Person appears to have a pigeon-holed future as an NBA coach or executive.
Auburn falls to Florida in SEC Tournament
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — On a similar makeshift podium last year in the bowels of the Tampa St. Pete Times Forum, Jeff Lebo stumped for his team’s candidacy as an at-large NCAA Tournament team with the gusto of a politician.
March 10, 2010
Odds stacked against Auburn, Lebo
AUBURN — The numbers are stacked against Auburn and coach Jeff Lebo heading not only into today’s SEC Tournament, but into the future.
March 09, 2010
AU football players strut their stuff for scouts
AUBURN — Walt McFadden and Antonio Coleman came to Auburn’s Pro Day with two different sources for personal redemption.
March 03, 2010
Tigers make it a happy ending
AUBURN — Wally Tinker, game ball in hand, strolled past the free-throw line and stopped about 7 feet from the hoop outside the paint. With the remaining 9,927 fans cheering as loudly as they had all night in Auburn’s 89-80 upset victory Wednesday over Mississippi State, the former Tiger wasted little time before sending a high-arching shot toward the hoop, stationed right around the same place he hit the first basket in Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum.
March 02, 2010
Curtain call for Beard-Eaves
As much as coaches, players and pretty much everyone else in the Auburn athletic department have talked excitedly about the new Auburn Arena, it likely doesn’t even sniff the buzz that took over the campus 42 years ago. Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum certainly isn’t “The Barn.”
Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum timeline
January 11, 1969 — Auburn men defeat LSU and Pete Maravich, 90-71, in the first game ever played at Memorial Coliseum. A crowd of 11,166 is in attendance for the arena’s’ opener. Maravich scored 46 points, the most ever by an opponent in Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum history.
March 01, 2010
Auburn notes: Big Cat Weekend II set
When LaDarius Owens arrived on campus with a bevy of other highly touted prospects for the infamous Big Cat Weekend, he didn’t know exactly what to expect.
February 27, 2010
Auburn cruises past LSU
AUBURN — It hasn’t been the season anyone at Auburn longed for, but the Tigers certainly can’t be accused of giving their 41-year-old arena a lousy curtain call.
February 26, 2010
Ross could be key against LSU
AUBURN — When Auburn and LSU last met, coach Jeff Lebo was scrambling to find someone, anyone, who could guard LSU’s Tasmin Mitchell and prevent him from breaking some sort of scoring record at the Tigers’ expense.
February 24, 2010
Auburn QB Rollison to transfer
AUBURN — In his first official interview as an Auburn Tiger, freshman quarterback Tyrik Rollison said he felt like Auburn would be a “second home” to him.
February 23, 2010
Auburn visits Ole Miss tonight
AUBURN — Auburn’s three guards, all of whom would never be mistaken for forwards or centers, went through a world of problems the last time they matched up with Ole Miss’ two 6-foot-5 guards.
February 22, 2010
Chizik, Auburn ready for second spring practice
AUBURN — At this point last year, Gene Chizik might not have been able to spare a part of his afternoon to answer questions.
February 19, 2010
Auburn relying on bench players
AUBURN — Two of Auburn’s top scorers were on the bench because of fouls at the end of Thursday’s loss at Florida, but that’s not why two bench players saw the most action they had seen all conference season and another picked up more than he’d seen in the past month.
February 17, 2010
Hargrove steps up for Auburn
AUBURN — The solution, if there is one, to remedying Auburn’s offensive struggles during crunch time might require a little bit of less from one senior, and a little bit of more from another.
February 12, 2010
Varnado poses tough test for Auburn
AUBURN — For as prolific as Jarvis Varnado is at blocking shots, where it seems like opposing teams keep a safe distance away from the Mississippi State forward, he does have a weakness as Auburn center Brendon Knox sees it.
February 10, 2010
AU’s Savage happily returning for Year 6
AUBURN — The three defensive backs came to Auburn together, all redshirted their first seasons together and spent the bulk of their respective careers living under the same roof — together.
Auburn gets win over Georgia
AUBURN — Auburn found out Wednesday that wins come a whole lot easier if you never give up the lead.
February 09, 2010
Tigers looks for a little magic
AUBURN — Quick Change, a tandem of magicians who change layers of clothing in the blink of an eye behind an array of banners, glitter and confetti, will take center stage halftime at tonight’s Auburn-Georgia game at Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum.
February 07, 2010
VIDEO: Gabe Gross
Former Northview and Auburn standout Gabe Gross was on hand at the Wiregrass High School Home Run Derby Saturday.
February 05, 2010
Auburn faces tough road test
Auburn is right back at the rock-bottom mark it hit last season before it went on a tear to finish second place in the SEC West, and, unlike the year before, it had to win a game to reach its current 2-5 conference record.
February 04, 2010
Auburn’s Savage granted extra year
AUBURN — The NCAA gave oft-injured Auburn cornerback Aairon Savage one more shot at redemption Thursday.
February 03, 2010
AU wraps up highly-regarded recruiting class
AUBURN — By late June, more than eight months before Wednesday’s National Signing Day, Auburn fans were already toilet-papering trees, a spur-of-the-moment, controversial event that propelled hopes of rejuvenating a program mired in a recruiting standstill.
Auburn football signees list
2010 AUBURN FOOTBALL SIGNEES
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