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This week, a few members of the LSU football team had the opportunity to try out an innovate helmet that features battery-powered air-conditioning units.

Most people didn’t know the name Angel Reese before the NCAA women’s basketball championship in April, but it’s become clear why the LSU star forward is now looked at as a phenom who is still approaching the top of her game. A native of Randallstown, Md., she...

Already one of the top NIL athletes in all of college sports, much less in Baton Rouge, LSU women’s basketball star Angel Reese is also rapidly becoming a social media superstar.

Tigers make the cut as McKinley locks in on making his college decision, will battle elite group of programs.

The biggest news out of the SEC spring meetings in Destin, Florida, came on Thursday when the league announced it would be eliminating divisions but keeping an eight-game schedule when it expands to 16 teams in 2024. However, that announcement overshadowed another news item that may be of interest to...

BATON ROUGE – LSU football will play Texas A&M in 2024, according to The Advocate. The SEC announced on Thursday at the 2023 SEC Spring Meetings in Destin, Florida, that the conference would have a temporary eight-game schedule with Texas and Oklahoma coming into the league next year. With that schedule, the Tigers will not face three year-to-year permanent opponents, which would have been Texas A&M, Ole Miss and Alabama if the conference had decided to implement a nine-game schedule.

The memories started coming back to two longtime coaches. Unfortunate injuries. Sudden adjustments. Doubles into the gap. Clutch pitching. All the small decisions they made while trying to win. Paul Mainieri and Pat Casey coached thousands of games during their respective careers at LSU and Oregon State. And in the...

The North Bossier Lunch Group met for its monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 31. Guest speaker at the meeting was Emily Ward, Captain of LSU’s recent Women’s Basketball National Championship team. Ward discussed LSU’s recent Women’s Basketball National Championship victory and her time at LSU. When...

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - Sam Houston finds themselves back in regional play for the first time since 2017 when they advanced to supers after beating Texas Tech. Play of the NCAA Regional begins Friday afternoon between LSU and Tulane at 2:00 followed by the Bearkats and the Beavers at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. First pitch is slated for 7 p.m.

NEW ORLEANS — The Tulane baseball team is headed to the Baton Rouge Regional, the NCAA selection committee announced this morning. The Green Wave (19-40), the regional's No. 4 seed, will take on the top seed, LSU, at 2 p.m. in a game that will be carried by ESPNU. The Tigers are the No. 5 national seed.

I played football for a bad high school team. I’ll spare you the glory days sob story on how we should have been better and say that we went 2-8 my senior year. I’m at peace with it like any well-adjusted 30-year-old should be, but there are some things that I look back on with the additional context of not being a clueless 18-year-old, and this is one of them.

With a few months until the season is underway, now is the time for the greatest minds in the sport to make their predictions on what will happen in 2023. One of those great minds is ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit. As a member of the wildly popular College Gameday show, he often gives his opinion on the ...

LSU inked linebacker Whit Weeks out of Watkinsville (Ga.) Oconee County, bringing in one of the nation's top linebackers. The post Get to know a 2023 LSU signee: Whit Weeks appeared first on On3.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — When 6-foot-6, 247-pound right-hander Paul Skenes steps on the mound at LSU’s Alex Box Stadium — as he will this weekend in the NCAA baseball tournament — sellout crowds 13,000 strong buzz with anticipation of 100 mph fastballs and strikeouts galore. Taking in that scene from center field is Dylan Crews, who might be even more coveted by Major League Baseball teams than his fire-balling teammate. Crews, hitting .420 and named the SEC player of the year, is the consensus top prospect in this year’s MLB amateur draft, which will be held in Las Vegas from July 9-11. Next is Skenes (10-2), who leads the nation with 167 strikeouts and was named SEC pitcher of the year. If they are the first two drafted, it will be the first time the top two picks came from the same college baseball team. Crews embraces the hype.

In a new book, “Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU,” LSU professor Robert “Bob” Mann documents the intense relationship between former Gov. and U.S. Sen. Huey P. Long and the university he helped build into its modern form.

In eighth grade, Thatcher Hurd wanted to be like University of Arizona catcher César Salazar. And for three years at Acalanes High School, outside of San Francisco, Hurd worked at becoming that catcher, finally getting his shot to show his dream school what he was capable of at an Arizona camp one summer when he went with his friend, now Arizona catcher Tommy Splaine.

BATON ROUGE – LSU will start the NCAA Baseball Tournament play at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional at 2 p.m. Friday when they face Tulane in Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field. The No. 5 National Seed marks LSU’s first appearance among the Top 8 seeds since 2017, when...

LSU assistant coach Bob Starkey shares about his West Virginia coaching roots after winning national championship and visiting the White House.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Seniors Thelma Davies and Jackson Martingayle were both named to the 2023 SEC Community Service Team, the league office announced on Thursday afternoon. The SEC Community Service Team is a yearly team released by the conference in a continuing effort to recognize the accomplishments of student-athletes beyond the field of competition. All league-sponsored sports have had a Community Service Team since 2004, with at-large teams for men’s and women’s sports being chosen from 1999-2003.

On Friday, Tulane and LSU will meet for the 318th time on the baseball diamond. The 309 regular-season meetings certainly have drawn great interest through the years, but it is those eight postseason battles that have taken the rivalry to another level in the last four decades. Just how intertwined...