Auburn's Obomanu Recalls 'The Drop'
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Ben Obomanu used to be curious about the goats of the sports world, the guys who had the game in their hands and failed. "Wow, I wonder how that guy feels," he'd ask himself. He doesn't have to ask anymore. Not since "The Drop," his own moment of infamy when a chance to beat Mississippi last season slipped through his hands in the end zone, turning his dream game into a nightmare.
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AUBURN, Ala. -- Arkansas made the first major upset of the college football season look easy.
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The television image to remember from Auburn Hills Friday night was not the flying beer cups or the thrown punches. Not the chaos of brainless bums disguised as fans, or unhinged vigilantes who a moment before were professional athletes.
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The Auburn Tigers survived another bruising showdown with LSU thanks to a stingy defense that wouldn't budge and a reversed call that went their way late in the game. Eric Brock deflected a pass near the goal line to stop one late drive and then made a game-saving tackle on the final play to preserve No. 3 Auburn's 7-3 win over sixth-ranked LSU on Saturday.
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The Auburn Tigers were basking in the preseason expectations and media attention. National title contenders? They were surely playing the part in 2003 &#151; until the season opened with back-to-back losses and the buzz turned ugly.
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Auburn University does not plan to forward information from an internal audit to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, a university spokesman said. The audit showed that a grade for a scholarship athlete was changed without the knowledge of the studentâs professor.
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It&#39;s the day before The Game. Everything that can be said about Auburn vs. Georgia has been said. And repeated. And repeated. So let&#39;s play a different game.
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LSU fell out of the top 10 Sunday while Auburn moved in, the result of a one-point game decided by a second-chance extra point. Defending BCS champion LSU dropped eight spots to No.
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ATLANTA -- Defensive lineman Wayne Dickens danced toward the Auburn fans in one corner of the Georgia Dome -- jubilant over the Tigers&#39; Southeastern Conference championship -- and appraised his team&#39;s bowl hopes.
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After two ugly losses and two lightweight wins, the Auburn Tigers finally had a chance to prove their mettle against Tennessee last season.
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New Orleans coach Jim Haslett downplayed an altercation between quarterback Aaron Brooks and defensive end Charles Grant that took place on the team plane back from Arizona.
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First it was the entire Auburn football team. Now it&#39;s the starting quarterback, the team and league MVP. It was bad enough that the Bowl Championship Series denied Auburn a spot in the Orange Bowl.
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Tennessee starting safety Brandon Johnson was suspended indefinitely because he fired a gun into the air near campus. Johnson, a junior from Tulsa, Okla.
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Brad Lester was once Auburn's starting tailback.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Alabama coach Mike Shula was fired after a 6-6 season that ended with three straight losses, including a defeat by state rival Auburn.
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Auburn's defense, at least, made a decent case for No. 1.
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Courtney Taylor and the Auburn Tigers aren't letting themselves get carried away by big ambitions.