Steven Pearl makes a mean chili, but not quite as mean as his father After failing to qualify for the finals of Auburn's faculty chili cookoff, Steven Pearl, head of Auburn's basketball squad, turned the heat off the stove and watched the last of the bubbles pop in his spicy chili dish. Bruce Pearl, meanwhile approached the judges booth filled with expletives. "My son won seventeen basketball games and has been cooking chili under my guidance for over a decade, motherfuckers,