Well, the final preparations are done, and with the NFL season set to kick off in about a week, the final roster spots are being filled. We’ll keep you posted on your favorite Tide players regarding who goes where, who gets cut, and who is taking their game to the next level in football’s premiere [...]
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Chizik’s Energy Vampire
With yesterday’s and today’s revelations that the NCAA is not only still investigating Auburn’s widely-alledged illegal recruitment of Cam Newton, but that the governing organization may actually know who the bagman is, it’s a valid point that the Chizik household may need to clean the guest bedroom. Looks like they have company. (Follow me on [...]
AU holding the bag as Newtons sail on
The scariest thing about doing business with a piece of garbage like Cecil Newton is the waiting game. It’s not a matter of if he’ll open his mouth and say too much, but a matter of when. And as the investigation Auburn fans said was over rambles on, as spoken from the lips of the [...]
Best coach in the country?
You’re alone, Jay. In the endless flow of Lee County propaganda, does anyone actually believe the blather trickling from the Auburn Athletic Director’s mouth in the press conference announcing Chizik’s new deal? Apparently Florida didn’t. When the Gators recently needed a new coach, where did they turn? To alumnus Gene Chizik, fresh off of a [...]
Onterio McCalebb arrested
Another Auburn football player has been arrested; this time it’s Auburn running back Onterio McCalebb. If you’re keeping score at home, this is number six since the end of the 2010 season, that we know of. Today, according to CBSSports.com, McCalebb was picked up on May 14th, for driving an “unregistered vehicle.” The second half [...]
A glimpse at Coach Goodwin’s trash can
According to the words of his former player, Homewood High School’s (Birmingham, AL) Coach Doug Goodwin is a piece of work. Brent Calloway’s recent interview with Tidesports.com paints a grim picture of a man teetering on the edge of odd if not childish behavior. From the interview: “Like the week of signing day I had [...]
Where Jeff Lee’s ideas come from
While people are laughing at AuburnSports.com “writer” Jeffrey Lee for his recent actions on an Alabama radio station, the question has to be asked. Where does he get his information from? Lee has a longstanding and unapologetic love for Auburn football, and an apparent subsequent loathing for its rivals. Hardly a “journalist”, his site’s hand [...]
Auburn’s new billboard
It’s been said before that perception is reality. If that is indeed the case, then from sea to shining sea, the “reality” is that Auburn is the dirtiest program in all of college football. Because, nationally, overwhelmingly, that is the perception. Nobody buys that Cam Newton turned down six digits to come to Auburn for [...]
Smoke in Lee County: NCAA vs. Street Agents
Might want to find your place of safety; there are more storm clouds on the horizon. The NCAA has a mess on its hands, trying to regulate, monitor or outright get rid of the use of “street agents” used in college football recruiting. News broke yesterday that the University of Oregon is under the NCAA’s [...]
SHOCK: Smith arrested and no one reported it
For years we have beaten the drum here that there is a double standard with the media in our state. Here, friends, is yet another example. Charles Goldberg is reporting today, FINALLY….a WEEK LATER…that Auburn running back Eric Smith was arrested for third degree domestic violence. Yesterday Auburn officials announced he had been dismissed from [...]
UT, who’s staring down the barrell now?
Well, well, well. Almost nine years ago to the day, our friends from East Tennessee were sipping moonshine, throwing hoot’n’nannies and kissing each other on the mouths in celebration of “the evil empire” in Tuscaloosa being brought to their knees by the NCAA. My, my, my, my, my. How times have changed. Now it’s the [...]
Oh yeah…Bama beats UT in Knoxville, again
Knoxville, TN – Caught amid the Cyrus Kouandjio news, the University of Alabama basketball team took down the Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville Saturday night. The win marks the second time Bama has humbled the Vols on their turf in the past four months. The Tide slapped the Volunteers 41-10 in football on October 23rd in [...]
Another Auburn star bolts for the NFL…in secret
The Birmingham News is reporting that Auburn junior Darvin Adams is bolting for the NFL draft. Adams was Auburn’s leading receiver the last two seasons, with 60 catches in 2009 and 52 in 2010. The DJ Hall look-alike joins fellow Tigers Cameron Jerrell Newton and Nick Fairley in electing to forego their senior seasons to [...]
State Media Accountability: Charles Goldberg
Charles Goldberg, the Auburn flunky…errr…Auburn beat writer for the Birmingham News is at it again. The Auburn apologist this time has published what looks like a press release direct from the Auburn athletic department in defense of Cecil Newton being at the Auburn-Oregon game last Monday night. The NCAA made their feelings clear in regard [...]
Auburn, your god hath foresaken thee
Barely a year after stepping on campus, the object of worship for the Awbuhn Fambly has left the building. Cameron Jerrell Newton has declared he will enter the NFL draft. The man at the center of the pay-for-play investigation is leaving the pasture for greener pastures, where the green doesn’t come in hundreds of thousands [...]
Now they’re really all in
Despite enough circumstantial evidence to make even the most objective observer amazed, last Saturday Auburn University spoke loud and clear by playing the clearly ineligible Cam Newton: “Weeeeeeeeee!” Winning is fun, and Auburn is enjoying their most successful season in years. The problem is, what lies just beyond the instant gratification they are opting for [...]
Capstone Saturdays: It Didn’t Happen
Keep those heads buried, Auburn. Keep ‘em buried. USC did too. There are dark days ahead for Auburn University.
Tennessee’s Phil Fulmer wants a job
Former Tennessee Volunteer coach Phil Fulmer was begging for a job Saturday. He called out Lane Kiffin and by imputation current Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton on television. One thing we know about Fulmer is that he knows how to campaign for a job. He stabbed former Tennessee coach Johnny Majors in the back to [...]
“Welcome Coach” t-shirts
Fridays this fall a new t-shirt design will be featured on capstonereport.com for that Saturday’s game, and the following Monday you can order the shirt with the score included. We figure since you come here for college football smack, you ought to have a t-shirt to go along with it. This week’s shirt commemorates the [...]
ITK: A legend returns to Bryant-Denny
This Saturday, Bryant-Denny Stadium will host two legendary coaches, and one in the making. Joe Paterno will likely make his final visit to Tuscaloosa, at least as a coach, as he brings his #14 Nittany Lions to the house that Bear built. Fittingly, the contest will take place on Bryant’s birthday. Also in attendance will [...]
ITK: Cam reality, thoughts on the first weekend
With the first college football weekend of 2010 now in the books, what do we know? 2009 was just the beginning. This notion was offered by Saban at a BCS championship party last January, but it really was true. There’s a lot of football to play, and yes, a football can take some funny bounces, [...]
The Bham News drops another edition
We at Capstone Report strongly encourage you to consider your choices when it comes to where you get your news…specifically, your sports news…in our fair state. If you enjoy reading that a football program who has yet to play a game, led by a coach who is a perennial loser somehow holds all the cards [...]
Pinocchi-Chiz
Remember when Chiz said Abarn was taking back the state? So do three in-state Abarn QB’s that just got displaced by a juco Georgia peach. Maybe he meant they were taking “back ups” from the state… I guess lying is okay in the Ahwbun Fambly? Think other in-state kids will catch on to the game? [...]
Capstone Saturdays: Abarn relieved ODK is okay
Abarn fans expressed relief Saturday that the Foy-ODK Trophy was accounted for and “okay.” “We hadn’t seen it in a couple of years and didn’t know if it was just missing or what,” said Lloyd Bromingham, a long-time Abarn fan and graduate. “But I seen it with mine own eyes today. I feel better.” Other [...]
Capstone Saturdays: Bama Basketball
This Saturday as the Tide hosts the Tiggers, the men’s basketball season mercifully comes to an end in Tuscaloosa. Sure, there’s the SEC tournament to look forward to next week, but for all intents and purposes it ends tomorrow. After all, does anyone expect this team to make a run next week? Though basketball seemingly [...]
Clowns of the Alabama Media: Scarbinsky
Editorial Cartoon: Clowns of the Alabama Media series: Scarbinsky I am beginning a new series simply entitled, “Clowns of the Alabama Media.” Oh, there are so many. Check back weekly for new installments this spring. Today, we honor Birmingham News columnist Kevin Scarbinsky. Some call him a Finebaum wanna be, others a shock writer, others [...]
Capstone Saturdays: Fire When Ready, Aight?
Editorial Cartoon: Fire When Ready, Aight? I continue to be utterly amazed by the job Nick Saban has done and continues to do at Alabama. When you stop and think about what he’s accomplished in just three short years, it is staggering. First, there was the change of perception. Momentum and buzz stepped off the [...]
Capstone Saturdays: ODK Missing From Beard Eaves
Editorial Cartoon: ODK Missing From Beard Eaves Circulating reports yesterday had the Foy-ODK Sportsmanship Trophy missing from Beard Eaves Memorial Coliseum for the second consecutive year. The trophy, awarded to the winner of the annual Iron Bowl clash between the University of Alabama and Abarn University, is presented at halftime at each university’s home basketball [...]
Auburn’s Gus Malzahn not going anywhere anytime soon
Auburn’s offensive coordinator, Gus Malzahn, is an offensive guru. Need proof? Just ask any kool-aid slurping Auburn fan who still worships at his feet. Poll any barn dweller and they would gladly shed Auburn Head Coach Gene Chizik before letting Malzahn go. In fact, when Camgate was still in session, one fan I had a [...]