Melvin "Mel" Rosen served as head track coach for the Auburn Tigers for 28 years and has had one of the most outstanding careers of any Auburn coach.After completing his master's degree in physical education at the University of Iowa in 1951, he joined the U.S.
Starting Sunday, spring intramural sports began closing up for the end of the semester, just like spring classes.Except it's not tests and projects due for the end of intramural sports, but the final soccer and softball playoffs.With names like "Cheezeballs," "Drug Dealer" and "Abusement Park," teams fight for the chance to become intramural champions at Auburn.After the regular season of five or six games, teams are ranked and placed into an initial four-team bracket.The playoff system depends on which league and category a team belongs to, and a team's record is not all that counts in the playoffs.Referees assign a point value to each team's sportsmanship during each game, on a scale of one to five.At the end of the regular season, the average of this sportsmanship score is coupled with a team's win-loss record to see if they made it to the playoffs.The sportsmanship points average is also used as a tiebreaker for teams that end the regular season with the same record.The last round of the playoffs will be held tonight.Winning teams receive T-shirts and a trophy, not to mention bragging rights.Brett North, senior in civil engineering, is the captain of the undefeated softball team "Cheezeballs."Without regular practice, North said the thing he likes about softball is the competition, that he can compete in a way he hasn't since high school.Another softball team that made the playoffs are the "Toon Squad," which is mostly made up of members of Lakeview Baptist Church.Nathan Douthit is a member of "Toon Squad" and said the most important thing for him is the chance to spread the gospel after the game."The most important thing for us is telling people about Jesus," Douthit said.Fraternities are consistently well-represented in softball playoffs.
The NCAA Women's Golf Championship Committee announced Monday that the No. 3 Auburn Tigers women's golf team will play as the No.
Corey Johnson is an average high school sophomore from Scottsboro. He works at the local McDonald's, is the broadcast director for his yearbook staff and is excited about getting his driver's license this summer.But Johnson has one not-so-typical hobby: "brickfilming," or making stop-motion movies using Legos.Johnson made the three and a half hour drive to Auburn because one of his films made it to the final round of the 2010 Jay Sanders Film Festival last Thursday.To his surprise, he won the first place prize of $500 for his film "Wellsburg, Parts I, II and III," described in the festival brochure as a "classic tale of lost love, told with Legos."Johnson originally made the movie as a summer project."Wellsburg" is a silent film about love and loss, set in the early 20th century and inspired by the movie "Titanic."The film was commended by the judges for its originality and technical prowess, putting it a leg above other films submitted by students from the Baltimore School of Fine Arts and high schools from New York and Texas."It's just beautiful techniques," said Michael Young, CEO of Michael Young Media and judge of the festival.
Benjamin Willoughby had never ridden a bull before Saturday, when he saddled and strapped up to ride in front of hundreds of spectators at the 2010 Alpha Psi Rodeo.A freshman in building science, Willoughby is a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and has been going to the Rodeo since he was a junior in high school.\0xAD\0xADHe hung on to the bull for about three seconds before being thrown, but considers it one of the most exciting experiences of his life."It was a huge adrenaline rush," Willoughby said, "probably one of the biggest adrenaline rushes I've ever had."Everybody who's anybody hears about the Alpha Psi Rodeo, according to Willoughby, and this year's rodeo was definitely a big event, hosting more than 15,000 people, a large crowd for a first-time bull rider."It was like Christmas morning, waiting for rodeo," Willoughby said.
Picket signs bearing "vote stupid out of Washington" and "conservatism built America" dotted the courtyard across from the Lee County Courthouse Saturday during the East Alabama Tea Party.The event was held by the East Alabama Patriots, a political organization that believes in the constitutional values of limited government, personal responsibility and individual freedom.The rally began with the national anthem and Pledge of Allegiance and consisted of a series of speeches from notable members of the Tea Party movement.Caroline Wren, senior in economics and president of the Auburn College Republicans, spoke to the crowd saying American freedoms are being attacked."We're fighting against the best organized and most capable enemy of freedom that has ever existed in America," Wren said.
The Auburn Tigers baseball team closed off their series against the No. 14 South Carolina Gamecocks Sunday at Plainsman Park with a refreshing 10-6 victory after two consecutive losses to start the series.Auburn's win ended South Carolina's 13-game winning streak, making Auburn's record 17-7 overall and 4-2 against SEC competition, and leaving the Gamecocks with an overall record of 19-5 and 5-1 in the SEC.
The players on the Auburn Tennis Club team were not recruited via limousine and they don't have scholarships to play, but they are going to the national championships this year.
The No. 8 Auburn Men's Golf team finished at the top of the leader board at the 2010 Schenkel E-Z Go Invitational with a team score of 862.
Natural disasters are unfortunately an inherent part of life on this planet.Jan. 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Feb.
