By J.M. Comer

The War Eagle Reader offers a roundup of interesting news stories, questionable opinions and great comments from other team’s fans about the Auburn Tigers across the blogosphere.

Eagle shoots into the sun, photo by Charlie “Dad” Comer

News and Recruiting Roundup

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ESPN checks in on early Auburn recruit Raymond Cotton’s performance at the Elite 11 quarterback camp: “Cotton is a very intriguing player to watch. He might be the most raw of any quarterback here but also could have as much upside as anyone.” (ESPN.com, July 22)

Also check out Cotton’s evaluation on the ESPN 150 Watch List. (ESPN.com, July 22) There are 10 other early Auburn commitments on the 2009 list.

Fox Sports calls Sept. 20 “Nirvana for football fans” and looks at the Auburn-LSU game. (FoxSports.com, July 21)

The Gainesville Sun includes Tommy Tuberville in its list of “glamour coaches” and says he is best known for “Leading Auburn to an undefeated season in 2004 — and not having the opportunity to play for the national championship.” (The Gainesville Sun, July 21) I guess it is better than being known for this.

In sorta-Auburn-related news: LSU needs a “true” rival. Desperate, they try to coif one with Ole Miss called “The Magnolia Bowl.” (The Daily Reveille, July 22)

(In related LSU news: Their athletes? Not so bright. Don’t they have sociology classes down there?)

Let the Eagle Soar!

A collection of favorable comments and interesting articles from blogs and newspapers about the Tigers.

Three out of four HogBloggers predict Auburn to win the SEC West. (HogBloggers.net, July 22).

Dawg Sports picks “The Tony Franklin Experience” as #19 of “The Top 25 Things I’m Looking Forward to This Season in the SEC.” (Dawg Sports, July 22)

The War Eagle Reader offers a roundup of interesting news stories, questionable opinions and great comments from other team’s fans about the Auburn Tigers across the blogosphere.

News and Recruiting Roundup

An Auburn football player from the early ’80s receives Purple Heart medal for receiving injuries in an Iraqi operation called … get this … Operation All-American Tiger. (The Lincoln Journal, July 17)

RB Tre Smith will get his first start tonight for the CFL’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats. (National Post, July 17)

The story of an Auburn walk-on, offensive lineman Andrew Parmer from Georgia, who wanted to be a Tiger (his parents are both alums) and got the invite (The Daily Citizen, July 16)

The Packers’ rookie CB Pat Lee says last year’s upset of Florida is “The Game I’ll Never Forget.” (Packers.com, July 17)

The Plainsman looks at Auburn’s two toughest games this year. (The Auburn Plainsman, July 17)

Another Plainsman, Guy Rhodes, editor of The Tuskegee News, reminisces about a trip to New York in 1968 to receive the Pacemaker Award for The Auburn Plainsman and visiting Yankee Stadium (I know, I know — its not football related, but its a good story) (The Tuskegee News, July 17)

Let the Eagle Soar!

A collection of favorable comments and interesting articles from blogs and newspapers about the Tigers.

The Wizard of Odds takes a look at Auburn’s 2008 poster schedule (Wiz o’ Odds, July 17)

The Elephant’s Empty Bleat!

Tide Nation is talking loud and sayin’ nothing.

A blog whose team lost to the ULM Warhawks in 2007 makes fun of Auburn scheduling the Furman Paladins in 2009. (Roll Bama Roll, July 17)

The War Eagle Reader offers a roundup of interesting news stories, questionable opinions and great comments from other team’s fans about the Auburn Tigers across the blogosphere.

News and Recruiting Roundup

Troy’s coach says Auburn made the right move when they stole away Offensive Coordinator Troy Franking. How’s this for an endorsement? “When Tony left, we promoted the guy who was closest we could come to Tony without it being Tony.” The Trojans’ new coordinator is 27-year-old Neal Brown, who played for Franklin at Kentucky and coached under him at Troy. (Montgomery Advertiser, July 16)

Paul Rhodes says he will be ready for the Iron Bowl — in his “heart and soul”: (Eufaula Tribune, July 16)

Sean Conway, a center from Nashville, gushes about Auburn’s football camp (PrepTennessee.com, July 16)

Q&A with Auburn’s early recruit from Lassiter, Ga., tight end Philip Lutzenkirchen (The Atlanta Journal Constitution, July 16).

What?!?! Georgia QB Matt Stafford could be a football camp counselor for Faith Academy QB Raymond Cotton, an early Auburn committment, at ESPN’s RISE Elite 11 quarterback camp? How will that work? (al.com, July 16)

Shug Jordan comes in at #5 in this list of “15 Great Coaching Quotes” (BleacherReport.com, July 16)

Recruit #20 is an all-state QB that plays three sports from Franklin County, Miss. Welcome aboard the USS War Eagle, Jamie Collins! How about this nugget of info from the newspaper: The Franklin County Bulldogs won the 3A Championship in 2006, beating Nettleton 23-13. Collins accounted for three touchdowns in the game, and also picked off three passes. Wowweee! (The Natchez Democrat, July 16)

“Whatever happened to James Daniel,” the offensive linemen coach at Auburn University under Pat Dye from 1981-92? (The Enterprise Ledger, July 15)

“Aided by the absence of Gator-slaying Auburn on its schedule, Florida will get through October undefeated,” says SI’s Austin Murphy. I just love that Auburn is known for slaying Gators in the national press. My gator-hatin’ heart swells with pride. (CNN/SI, July 16)

Auburn comes in at #23 in the Disassociated Press Poll (DPP) on Rivals. Maybe you can make more sense of this poll than I. (Rivals.com, July 16)

A hit from an Auburn Tiger during the 1997 SEC Championship Game is still affecting Peyton Manning? (Knoxville News Sentinel, July 16)

Tigers Roar!

A collection of questionable comments from other blogs about the Auburn Tigers.

Hey Auburn fans! Need something to motivate you to put a fist through the drywall? Well, try this product! (Georgia Sports Blog, July 15)

LSU’s Tiger Weekly says Auburn will end the season with a 10-2 record, finishing second in the West (TigerWeekly.com, July 16)

[thanks to Jimbo!]

By J.M. Comer

The War Eagle Reader offers a roundup of interesting stories, questionable opinions and great comments from other team’s fans about the Auburn Tigers across the blogosphere. Also included is a roundup of news stories of interest for your afternoon reading and dissection.

Let the Eagle Soar!

A collection of favorable comments and interesting articles from blogs and newspapers about the Tigers.

Ben Tate comes in at 21 in Gatorsports.com’s (The Gainesville Sun) countdown of the SEC’s 25 top players. (Gatorsports, July 4)

Columnist Wally Hall says “Include Tuberville’s Tigers in BCS title talk.” (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, July 15)

Auburn’s Sen’Derrick Marks will write a weekly column for Sporting News Today this fall. (Columbia Tribune, July 9)

Picture me Rollin takes a look at Bama’s loss to Auburn in 1997, coming at #5 in his list of “The Worst of Times.” (Picture me Rollin, July 15).

Tigers Roar!

A collection of questionable comments from blogs and newspapers about the Auburn Tigers.

ALERT! ALERT! RAAAAWWWRRRR! RAAAAAWWWRRR! Pat Dye comes in as #2 as “Enemy of the Orange” (Syracuse) in Post-Standard columnist Brent “The Axeman” Axe’s list. He actually calls Pat Dye “a tool.” Sounds like the Axeman has an axe to grind. Somehow, I doubt Pat Dye loses any sleep over any Orange hatred. (Syracuse.com, July 11)

The Elephants’ Empty Bleat!

Tide Nation is talking loud and sayin’ nothing.

The Capstone Report has fun with prefixes and makes a sad attempt at coining the phrase “Aubsessed” and insults other Bama blogs by calling them “lesser.” Can we join in the fun too? We sure did “AU-bliterate” your team the past six years. We’ll be happy to “AU-blige” you with a seventh beating this year. (Capstone Report, July 15) …

… then CR tries to claim the “selling out all our tickets first” battle with Auburn. It’s just pathetic really. (Capstone Report, July 15)

BamaFootball4Life lets loose the lame jokes. (BF4L, July 11)

The War Eagle Reader offers a roundup of interesting stories, questionable opinions and great comments from other team’s fans about the Auburn Tigers across the blogosphere. Also included is a roundup of news stories of interest for your afternoon reading and dissection.

News and Recruiting Roundup

Tide, Tigers battle for Georgia LB (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 14)

Mobile Press-Register releases its Elite 18 football recruits — five players are early Auburn commitments (Press-Register, July 14)

Preview of the West Virginia vs. Auburn game by W.Va. newspaper (Charleston Gazette, July 14)

Opinion: Looking into the eyes of Paul Rhoads (Cullman Times, July 12)

Let the Eagle Soar!

A collection of favorable comments and interesting articles from other blogs about the Tigers.

An undefeated 2008 for the Tigers? (Real Football 365, July 14)

A look at the West Virginia vs. Auburn game (Sunday Morning Quarterback, July 12)

Auburn will be the #1 “Biggest Surprise Team of 2008″ (Bleacher Report, July 11)

“Five Reasons Florida Won’t Win the National Championship.” #5 reason is Auburn will beat them in the SEC championship game. (Bleacher Report, July 11)

Tigers Roar!

A collection of questionable comments from other blogs about the Auburn Tigers

Picks Miss. St. upsetting Auburn (Bleacher Report, July 12)

Loser With Socks says Auburn will lose 5 games in 2008 (LWS, July 11)

The hoses! The hoses! Video clip of 1986 Auburn vs. Georgia game postgame hose down (Georgia Sports Blog, July 11)

“Nothings smells worse than a wet dawg.”

The Elephants’ Empty Bleat!

Tide Nation is talking loud and sayin’ nothing.

Nothing really interesting or worth noting on Tide blogs so far this week. We’ll keep a nose to the ground.

… and then there are blog friends.

Yesterday, as The War Eagle Reader slipped quietly over 100,000 hits, Jerry Hinnen, proprietor of The Joe Cribbs Car Wash, blessed us with $20.00, our very first donation toward the must-win procurement of Pat Dye’s pants.

God only knows what The Sacred Trou will eventually fetch (from us!), but we are now just $80 away from “the red zone” of The Blue Jeans Ball.

As much as I would want to horde them for / glue them on myself, I would be more than willing to make The Pants a time-share heirloom among the blAUgosphere and the brethren at large: if every Auburn blogger, and every interested (Auburn) person, could find in it his heart to give as Jerry gave, we will wear The Pants.

Thanks, Jerry - you’re the pants.

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And there’s activation problems too! Just like Nick!

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