Arkansas State

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Tennessee State

LSU (24-6, 2-5) was looking to get back on track after being swept by Tennessee in Baton Rouge last weekend. Against Ole Miss, the Tigers had eight hits, but stranded five runners in scoring position. LSU pitcher Ali Kilponen (8-3) gave up nine hits and five runs, only three of...

LSU softball team drops its fourth conference game in a row with a loss at Ole Miss

Indiana State

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Some unforgettable images the Utah Utes will carry with them into their suddenly present postseason:. • LSU forward LaDazhia Williams, deftly spinning to the basket or popping out for soft midrange jumpers, like a latter-day Seimone Augustus. • Alexis Morris, sinking the four most clutch free...

Scott Rabalais: This is how LSU slid into the Elite Eight — clutch play, pink feathers

South Carolina State

LSU has ridden the talents of All-American Angel Reese to its best season in 15 years, but it took a pair of seniors to help push the Tigers into the Elite Eight. Alexis Morris made four free throws in the last 10 seconds, and LaDazhia Williams stepped up with Reese in foul trouble with a season-high 24 points as the Tigers danced into the Elite Eight with a 66-63 victory Friday at Bon Secours Arena in Greenville, South Carolina.

LSU women survive late rally by Utah to earn first Elite Eight berth since 2008

LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey did not disappoint with her ensemble for Friday's Sweet Sixteen battle against Utah in Greenville, South Carolina. Mulkey, who is in her second season at LSU, has developed quite the reputation in Baton Rouge for her selection of outfits on gameday, and it appears she topped herself in South Carolina on Friday.

Kim Mulkey arrived for LSU-Utah in the Sweet Sixteen wearing quite the flashy outfit

Lafayette, LA

Lutcher, LA

If you do, don’t mention it to the Lutcher or Port Allen girls powerlifting teams. Both teams proved heavy lifting is still their thing at the LHSAA state powerlifting championships. Lutcher claimed its 16th straight title by winning Division II on the third day of the meet held Friday...

Girls rule: Lutcher, Port Allen dominate once again at LHSAA powerlifting meet

WHO: Arkansas (19-2, 3-0) at LSU (19-2, 2-1) WHEN: Noon Friday. RADIO: WDGL-FM, 98.1 (Baton Rouge); WWL-AM, 870 (New Orleans); KLWB-FM, 103.7 (Lafayette) RANKINGS: LSU is No. 1 by Collegiate Baseball. Arkansas is No. 3. PROBABLE STARTERS: LSU — RHP Paul Skenes (5-0, 0.59 ERA); Arkansas —LHP Hunter Hollan (4-0,...

How to watch, listen to Arkansas at LSU on Friday

Utah State

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Back in 1988, Danny Manning put the Kansas Jayhawks on his back and carried them to the NCAA championship. It was a team that became known by the 1950s doo-wop-sounding nickname of “Danny and the Miracles.”. It’s 2023, and we’re getting a similar vibe from...

Scott Rabalais: Can Angel Reese carry the LSU Tigers from the Sweet 16 to the Final Four?

Iowa State

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Angel Reese is not a finalist for the Naismith or Wade national player of the year awards. And Kim Mulkey isn’t happy about it. Reese, LSU’s All-American forward, lost out to South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston, Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, Villanova’s Maddy Siegrist and Elizabeth Kitley of Virginia Tech for the Naismith Award. Boston, Clark, Siegrist and Indiana’s Mackenzie Holmes are finalists for the Wade Trophy.

NCAA notebook: LSU star Angel Reese snubbed for two more player of the year awards

GREENVILLE, S.C. — LSU coach Kim Mulkey has earned at least $126,000 in contract incentives so far during the Tigers’ Sweet 16 run and stands to earn much more if her team can continue to advance. Mulkey earned a $28,000 bonus for an NCAA tournament appearance, $30,000 for...

Check out LSU coach Kim Mulkey's list of NCAA tournament-related contract incentives

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Miami’s Cavinder twins, Haley and Hanna, are the Olivia Dunnes of women’s college basketball. The twins, who are playing for the Hurricanes in Friday’s first Greenville 2 regional semifinal against Villanova, have over 4 million social media followers. By comparison Dunne, the LSU gymnast, has 7.3 million followers on TikTok and 3.7 million on Instagram.

Miami basketball's Cavinder twins on LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne; 'She's the queen of NIL'

Few players across the nation have a better mix of size and skill than Utah’s Alissa Pili. The 6-foot-2 junior forward from Anchorage, Alaska, is an efficient high-volume scorer and an adept passer. In Utah’s two NCAA tournament games, Pili averaged 30.5 points, 9.0 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game, shooting 66% from the floor and 83% from the free-throw line.

The LSU women will have to defend this Utah star. Here's how they played a similar opponent

LSU's Angel Reese snubbed for two player of the year awards. Kim Mulkey isn't happy.

Carencro, LA

CARENCRO - It's time for local track and field programs to start getting focused on the season's stretch run, and today's Parish Meet at Carencro will help that vision get sharper. Carencro and Teurlings Catholic figure to set the pace in boys' competition, while perennial favorite Lafayette High is likely...

Local track powers Carencro, Teurlings, Lafayette chase parish crowns

Louisiana State

In a sign of confidence in downtown Baton Rouge and Louisiana’s petroleum sector, Dallas-based Placid Refining Company announced Thursday it will move its headquarters to Fourth Street as part of a $66 million project that will include upgrades to its Port Allen refinery. The company expects the relocation and...

Why this petroleum company is moving its headquarters from Texas to downtown Baton Rouge

Scott, LA

The town of Scott, just to the west of Lafayette was born as a railroad town. According to records, the railroad that runs through Scott was built between 1870 and 1880 using convict labor. Some of the land for the railroad was obtained from Dominique Cayret. J.B. Scott, then the...

How Scott became known as 'Where the West begins'

With the bounty of spring, the Big River Economic and Agricultural Development Alliance is set to begin operating four weekly markets in different areas of Baton Rouge. Starting Tuesday, April 11, the Red Stick Farmers Market will host a group of farmers and food artisans from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. every Tuesday at the Main Library on Goodwood Blvd.

BREADA reopening fresh produce markets to gear up for the bounty of a Louisiana spring

Florida State

A Florida man traveling with his family back home from Oklahoma went missing Wednesday after he began feeling unwell and checked into a downtown hotel with his family, a Baton Rouge Police spokesperson said. Jody Bert, 44, had dropped his family off at a downtown hotel, and went to park,...

Florida man missing from downtown Baton Rouge after checking into hotel with family, police say

Georgia State

Update: Police identified the arrested woman as Tiffany Ann Guidry. One of the women wanted for questioning in the death of a Georgia man who died of a drug overdose while on a business trip to Baton Rouge last month has been arrested, police said Friday. Authorities on Thursday issued...

Woman arrested in connection with Nathan Millard case, Baton Rouge police say

Thibodaux, LA

A Thibodaux man irate that he hadn't yet received a check in the mail hummed a rock at U.S. postal worker Thursday and injured her arm, Assumption Parish sheriff's deputies said. Deputies arrested Ronald Washington Jr., 27, after the postal worker reported the encounter near Labadieville, deputies said in a...

Louisiana man chases, throws rock at a postal worker over a missing check, deputies say

A mobile home park in Lafayette has sold for $3.8 million last month, records show. Stanley Communities, led by Lafayette partners Kris Hodges and Michael Hyatt, bought the 14.48-acre, 109-space Oak Park Estates, 1717 Eraste Landry Road, for from the Kelley family, land records show. The group now owns 20 properties, 14 of which are in Acadiana.

Stanley Communities buys mobile home park in Lafayette for $3.8 million

5 p.m. - 8 p.m. Chris Leblanc. 7:30 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. Tommy Castro & The Painkillers. 2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Sam Hogan & The Rhythm Ramblers. 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. OMT Band featuring Floyd Patterson. 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Gregg Martinez featuring TK Hulin and Johnny...

Baton Rouge Blues Festival announces lineup for April 21-23 downtown event

The attorneys for Ian Howard, who is accused of fatally shooting a Lafayette Police officer and injuring three other people, are worried his ability to assist his defense is deteriorating after months of treatment. Howard's attorneys, Elliot Brown and Richard Bourke with the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center, raised their concerns...

Ian Howard's ability to assist defense deteriorating, his attorneys said in court

Two people were injured in separate shootings two hours apart in Baton Rouge on Thursday morning, officials say. At 7:25 a.m., Emergency Medical Services brought one person to the hospital from a shooting in the 2800 block of Lorraine Street, EMS spokesperson Brad Harris said. At 9:30 a.m., EMS brought...

Two wounded in shootings within two hours in Baton Rouge on Thursday morning, officials say

Matthew Fortenberry loved basketball, and earlier this month his school team had won a championship. His Glen Oaks Park Elementary School team was supposed to be honored at Wednesday’s Metro Council meeting. Instead, his parents and Baton Rouge leaders stood in the council chambers to announce a funeral expense...

An 11-year-old's funeral fund and a Baton Rouge father's plea: 'Something's got to change'

Lafayette’s City Council this week handed over its months-long investigation of Mayor-President Josh Guillory to the Louisiana legislative auditor’s office. No findings have been disclosed yet as the probe moves forward. Within weeks of Guillory’s return from rehab last summer and amid a story about a construction equipment...

Lafayette City Council passes Josh Guillory investigation to legislative auditor

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He's a Jaguar: Top local quarterback keeps close to home by signing with Southern

Scotlandville High School quarterback C’Zavian “Zae” Teasett is known for a surprising elusiveness. Teasett offered another huge surprise Wednesday when he signed with the school down...

He's a Jaguar: Top local quarterback keeps close to home by signing with Southern

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