For some, it's an old sweaty hat. For others, it's a ritual before every game. But for nearly all athletes, superstitions are standard.It's strange, really.
Before my enrollment at Auburn, the South was mysterious, uncharted territory for this city girl.
Though the Tigers may not have defeated the Tide in the last Iron Bowl battle, they did manage to top their rivals in another way: Revenue.Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal unveiled their Top 10 College Sports revenue list last week.
After battling an inoperable brain tumor since December 2008, legendary swim coach Richard Quick died Wednesday, June 10 at the age of 66.Quick, a six-time United States Olympic Coach, spent six seasons with Auburn, leading the men's team to a National Championship in 2009.
Four Auburn baseball players will be continuing their baseball careers in the Big Leagues.Joseph Sanders, Scott Shuman, Paul Burnside and Taylor Thompson were picked in days two and three of the MLB draft last week.Sanders, drafted in the 5th round, is going to the Colorado Rockies.
After battling an inoperable brain tumor since December 2008, legendary swim coach Richard Quick passed away last night at the age of 66.Quick, a six-time United States Olympic Coach, spent six seasons with Auburn, leading the men's team to a National Championship in 2009.
Auburn tennis players have not advanced past the quarterfinals at the NCAA Men's Doubles Tournament in seven years.However, the duo of Alexey Tsyrenov and Tim Puetz moved forward to the semifinals, only to fall 6-4, 6-2 to John-Patrick Smith and Davey Sandgren of the University of Tennessee Sunday.Tsyrenov and Puetz were ranked 10th by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association entering the competition and defeated teams from the University of Southern California and the University of Georgia before losing to the third-ranked Smith and Sandgren."We didn't play well in the beginning," Puetz said.
