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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 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
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
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
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
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
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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