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The Works, gameplanning for GamePlan-style
June 05, 2009 by
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Gone, but their spirit shall live on.I take that back. I'd said not long ago that I expected to skip purchasing ESPN's GamePlan pay-per-view package this year, since despite it being one of mankind's better inventions--ranking somewhere between the George Foreman Lean Mean...
2009 Cheese Puff Previews: Louisiana Tech
June 04, 2009 by
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Back by popular demand blogger fiat, it's your No. 1 most favorite tolerated series of near-substanceless, air-injected preview puffery. As always, it should in no way be mistaken for actual preseason football nutrition, but hopefully you find the series unaccountably tasty and...
Google surveys the signees, double-shot: Robert Cooper, Josh Jackson
June 04, 2009 by
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Because someone needs to do the work of plugging in a given Auburn signee's name into Google and synthesizing the tidbits of information that trickle out. Previous entries in this series here.At a glance, there's not much to connect Robert Cooper and Josh Jackson: Cooper is...
The Works, keepin' it spicy-style
June 03, 2009 by
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For absolutely no reason ... ... other than that I finally got around to acquiring Baby's First iPod, went through every CD in my possession for "OK, what's going to fit?" purposes, and realized that this song--which I listened to approximately 1,947 times in the...
In need of repair
June 03, 2009 by
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The NCAA's "secondary violation" system.Following Stage 1 ("Hey! Big Cat Weekend!") and Stage 2 ("Hey! Secondary violations!"), we've now entered Stage 3 of the Big Cat Weekend fallout: "Hey! Those violations don't mean a damn thing!"...
Krootin' talk
June 02, 2009 by
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Not much in the way of actual developments since the weekend, I guess, but there's enough chatter out there to put together a post, so here we go ...Where no Auburn coach has gone before. Writing as much as I have about Chizik and Co.'s recruiting efforts the last few weeks...
Are you experienced?
June 02, 2009 by
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Having never been the proactive, think-ahead, organized type, I don't have my copy of Phil Steele waiting in my mailbox, unfortunately. So as one of the rabble that will have to wait until it pops up on newsstands in a week or so, I'm currently having to make do with Steele...
The Works, awwwwwww!-style
June 01, 2009 by
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Cuter than baby pygmy jerboas. I'm not the biggest fan of the day-by-day "Only X days to football season!" countdowns that start popping up in the college football bloggitysphere, but Wire Road and Shug is on to something with their Auburn-by-the-jersey-numbers theme...
Here kitty kitty
June 01, 2009 by
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Just for the title. And because Art Brut are kind of my heroes. Mostly-OK-but-sort-of NSFW? Art Brut - Good WeekendIt's not often Auburn stories go from zero to earth-shaking as quickly as "Big Cat Weekend." Friday at mid-day: nothin'. And then by Sunday afternoon...
Progress, of a sort
May 29, 2009 by
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If you're a plugged-in SEC football fan, you've probably heard the news that the league has used their spring meetings to agree on a somewhat startling piece of NCAA legislation: a Signing Day cap of no more than 30 28 (see update below) letters-of-intent. Even if the NCAA...
The Works, much ado about nothing-style
May 29, 2009 by
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Not a scene that's going to change anytime soon.Not breaking out the kazoos just yet. So Bobby Lowder has retired from his post as Colonial's Bank's "Chairman, Director, CEO and President and Eternal Glorious Dictator-for-Life of the People's Republic of Colonialia...
Two random musings on the Auburn quarterbacking situation
May 28, 2009 by
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1. Commenter Marcus's recent, uh, comment revealing that Brandon Cox was a bona fide recruiting stud once upon a time--check it, we're talking a top-10 position ranking, four stars, offers from Saban's LSU and Spurrier's Florida--got me to thinking about our former...
Compare and contrast
May 28, 2009 by
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As everyone up to and including the bacteria on the Jovian ice moon Europa knows, Mike Slive went down to Destin and this week's offseason SEC meetings planning to knock some football coaches' heads for their months of public sniping. And knock heads he did, because as hilarious...
The Works, tit for tats-style
May 27, 2009 by
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"ALABAMA BRED." That's totally the tattoo I'm getting in giant script across my stomach, just as soon as I save up the cash again after getting that potato tattoo I've wanted since grade school*. Can't take credit for the idea, though, since it belongs to...
Auburn players are on the World Wide Web!
May 27, 2009 by
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We're going to take a brief look today at the Highlights and Drawbacks of three different Auburn player fan sites! The more popular the Internet becomes, the more common player fan sites like these will become, so this is only the beginning!Player: Kodi BurnsSite URL: www.kodiburns...
Should-be Must-see SEC
May 26, 2009 by
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The JCCW has never been above outright thievery borrowing someone else's good idea and bending it to my own illicit wholesome purposes. So when I read (and enjoyed) this post from the Senator the 10 2009 SEC games he wants to see the most, I knew I was going to have to take a stab...
The Works, Danger would be my middle name if it wasn't already War Eagle-style
May 26, 2009 by
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War Eagle, Sara Elisabeth Burson. TWER breaks a long silence with an awesome tale from Twitter. Check the screenshot: This being TWER, there's more where that came from: background info on the tweet pictured above, some personal recollections of that girl you've probably heard...
Hunter Ansley is a man with a woman's first name for a last name
May 26, 2009 by
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So the topic for this week's CFN mini-roundtable is "Lane Kiffin, Gene Chizik, or Dan Mullen ... which one will make the greatest immediate impact on the SEC?"Not surprisingly, most of the responses are "Kiffin," but "Hunter Ansley, Publisher, DraftZoo...
No reprieve
May 25, 2009 by
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The Auburn baseball team gets the same treatment from the NCAA selection committee, predictably, as the men's hoops team. Unlike in hoops, though, I doubt there's going to be that much griping when we're talking about a team that couldn't squeeze into the field at Hoover...
Round the First
April 21, 2008 by
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I wouldn't say I was giving up, exactly. But by the end of Thursday night, I was wondering, somewhat seriously, if the NCAA Tournament I knew and loved was gone.The NCAA tournament I grew up with and loved was a place where the Coppin St.'s and Valparaiso's of the world...
BB liveblog: VCU at Akron
April 21, 2008 by
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Greetings and welcome to the First It Might be Annual JCCW Bracket Busters Saturday Liveblog. Sound the kazoos! I've got my "Basketball kicks ass!" Bally shirt on, a pot of coffee at the ready, and I'm going to be here all freaking day, covering the single biggest...
A few final points of interest ...
April 19, 2008 by
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First, a questionable-quality but nonetheless enjoyable reminder of why I'm not worried about Butler traveling to the 'Ham: Now, a few items to touch on as the clock ticks closer to noon tomorrow:The Rotfang Conspiracy? I don't think anyone who's read this blog '...
Championship Week diaries: Day 1
March 29, 2008 by
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OK, so I'm going to try and write something about every title game, every day, of Championship Week. This is probably going to last until Tuesday, so enjoy it while you can. But for now...Overall impressions--Three tourneys decided yesterday, three total blowouts. The closest of...
Championship Week diaries: Days 3 / 4
March 17, 2008 by
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Real Life and his 1,001 paper-cut cruelties demanded a brief JCCW CW diary lapse, but that doesn't mean we're not still been watching obsessively and, ta da, we're back. The seven of you who signed up for this particular ride must be thrilled.Like that baby shampoo: No...
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