The Auburn-Opelika Tourism started accepting photo entries for its sixth annual Summer Photo Contest on Thursday.
SEC leaders on Thursday agreed on temporary scheduling measures that will drop divisions for the 2024 football season as Texas and Oklahoma join the league.
The Opelika Rage Room at 1510 Second Ave. will allow guests to break things in a controlled environment. Expected to open in early July, the entertainment venue will also include a splatter room where you can throw around neon paint.
The Auburn men’s basketball team will open its season with a familiar foe in a new place, as the school announced Thursday that the team will play Nov. 7 against Baylor in a neutral-site game in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Historically Black colleges and universities, which had seen giving from foundations decline in recent decades, lately are benefiting from an increase in gifts, particularly from corporations and corporate foundations.
A man was killed Wednesday night in a Valley shooting near Verandas Apartments on Sydney Street, authorities said.
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A total of 21 grillers will heat up downtown Opelika on Saturday and serve up their best burgers in the Burger Wars competition on North Railroad Street.
"I think there's some things that can be done and will be done by the Division I Baseball Committee," Cohen, the chair of this year's tournament selection committee, said Monday.
“Hopefully the best is yet to come,” Butch Thompson said Thursday. “There’s still a lot of boxes we haven’t checked.”
The Loachapoka Community Park that has been at the center of heated debates will undergo construction come mid-July, according to the Lee County Commission.
The Auburn forward announced in April that he'd enter the NBA Draft while maintaining his eligibility.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Concluding a record-setting season with one of the top honors in collegiate softball, Auburn’s Maddie Penta was selected a First Team All-American by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association, the organization announced Wednesday.
Former Tuskegee All-American and 11-year pro Drayton Florence is part of the SIAC’s Hall of Fame class of 2023, the conference announced on Wednesday.
The Tigers' season-opener against UMass kicks off at 2 p.m. CST and will be televised on ESPN. Their trip to Cal will kick off at 9:30 p.m. CST.
A Tallapoosa County Grand Jury has indicted five of the six Dadeville mass shooting suspects on a total of 145 counts.
A portion of Pepperell Parkway will be closed in the coming days while the Spire Natural Gas Company works on the gas line in the area, according to the City of Opelika.
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It was announced Tuesday afternoon that GolfSuites, a family-oriented entertainment venue, will open its fourth location in Opelika.
Flanigan's father, former Auburn assistant Wes Flanigan, is on Chris Beard's staff at Ole Miss.
The community has been invited to the Family Fun Day event at Covington Park on June 17, which has the theme: “Stop the violence. Save our children.”
A new pancake house that serves breakfast, brunch and lunch opened Tuesday morning in downtown Auburn.
The Auburn-Opelika community took some time out of their day on Monday to honor and mourn the people in the U.S. military who lost their lives serving the country.
Broome was Auburn's team leader points (14.2) and rebounds (8.4) per game last season. He also led the Tigers with 78 blocked shots.
Jamie Popwell, the founder of Flags for Vets, gifted flags on Memorial Day to the family of Opelika fallen solider Stephen “Dusty” Hiller.
The program announced Monday, three hours removed from the field for its regional being selected, that tickets for the weekend had sold out.
President Biden was joined by first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Harris’ husband, Douglas Emhoff, for the 155th National Memorial Day Observance.
It’ll be Southern Miss, Samford and Penn coming to the Plains for this year’s Auburn Regional, which is scheduled to begin June 2.
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The game times and network coverage for several Auburn and Alabama football games for the upcoming season were announced Wednesday, including the kickoff for Hugh Freeze‘s coaching debut and one of the latest starting times for an Auburn game.
A month highlighted by gambling-related firings and potential NCAA infractions in college sports motivated the Southeastern Conference to put extra emphasis on the issue at this week’s spring meetings. Commissioner Greg Sankey called on U.S. Integrity, a company that works with professional sports leagues and college conferences including the SEC to monitor events for gambling improprieties, to give multiple presentations to SEC coaches and administrators. With information a commodity more than ever before, talk of an injury report comes up among football coaches. But Sankey says that's unlikely and that more sophisticated ideas need to be explored.
Alabama guard Mark Sears is returning for the 2023-24 basketball season after withdrawing from the NBA Draft.
Alabama coach Nick Saban says college football is not a business that operates like the NFL and warned that without more uniform rules on player compensation only the biggest spenders will compete for championships. Saban met with reporters as the Southeastern Conference began their annual spring meetings on the Florida Gulf Coast. Two years since the NCAA lifted its ban on college athletes earning money for name, image and likeness, there are still no detailed, national NIL regulations. Saban said NIL is turning into pay-for-play, which makes it harder to create a level playing field.
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