With the naming of the court at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center a tribute to the greatest men’s basketball coach in LSU history, the overdue recognition of Dale Brown should be followed by a salute […]
Pete Maravich, the greatest LSU sports icon of them all, lost his life 33 Januarys ago at a church gymnasium a few miles from the Rose Bowl. Pete was gone at 40 while playing basketball […]
SEC purists responded to the news of Texas and Oklahoma petitioning to join the conference with a response better reserved for news that Alabama and Auburn were defecting to the ACC. It was a blockbuster […]
LSU athletic director Scott Woodward has solidified his standing as the go-to-guy when a university is inclined to showcase a shiny new coach. Woodward is a relentless treasure seeker in his mission to find marquee coaches. Woodward’s latest […]
When LSU President and Chancellor-Elect William Tate was born in 1961, there were no African American athletes at the state’s flagship university where no person of color enrolled as an undergraduate until 1953. Tate was […]
Nick Saban was hired as LSU football coach 21 years ago for the then-astronomical sum of $6 million for five years. It was reported in some places that Saban was becoming the highest paid coach […]
Ten years ago this month, former LSU football star Greg LaFleur was fired as Southern University athletics director after charges of solicitation were levied against him as he was attending the NCAA Final Four in […]
Paul Demi Mainieri could be described as the Rodney Dangerfield of LSU coaches. Like the famed comic, who lamented that he never got any respect, the Tigers’ underappreciated coach has been unfairly compared to a […]
On the night of Jan. 13, 2020, LSU football ruled the world as the conquerors departed New Orleans with a 15-0 record that culminated with a 42-25 rout of 14-1 Clemson. The Louisiana Tigers captured […]
Fifty two weeks removed from a 37-10 blowout of No. 5 Georgia to win the 2019 SEC championship, LSU coach Ed Orgeron experienced the indignity of Alabama’s Nick Saban avenging last year’s five-point defeat to […]
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