Charles McClendon directed LSU teams to post-season victories over undefeated teams vying for national honors three times in six years in the 1960s. His Tigers whipped unbeaten Texas 13-0 in the 1963 Cotton Bowl, snapped […]
Joe Burrow and the national champion LSU team will be saluted for generations as the last great college team before the COVID-19 age. The Tigers of 2019 are celebrated every night in an empty, but […]
The Golden Age of LSU football shimmers through every hamlet and crevice of Louisiana as the 21st season of the 21st century seeks to survive Covid-19. In two decades of the new millennium, LSU has […]
Come November, Nick Saban is scheduled to return to Tiger Stadium for the eighth time (once with the Miami Dolphins and seven times at Alabama) since his abrupt departure from LSU 15 years ago. The […]
The Houston Astros are hunkering down for spring training in a Florida resort town known for hurricanes, and recent turbulence is tantamount to an asteroid falling on the fortunes of the American League champs. As […]
Fifty years after he ascended to the pinnacle of the NCAA basketball career scoring chart, Peter Press Maravich is suspiciously absent from his university’s athletic Hall of Fame. As former Chancellor Mike Martin once lamented […]
When Kobe Bryant was born to Joe and Sharia Bryant on Aug. 23, 1978, another Bryant had 20 years behind him at Alabama as the most successful football coach of the 20th Century. Paul Bryant […]
LSU embraced a new decade with its most convincing victory in a national football championship game. Mighty Clemson, the defending national titlist with a 29-game winning streak, was dispatched in a purple haze of missiles […]
The last time LSU won the SEC championship for basketball and football in the same calendar year was the year of Huey Long’s assassination. Eighty-four autumns ago, the Kingfish was killed after being shot at […]
The legend of Joe Burrow grows by each superlative performance from the passing master from Athens. The LSU quarterback hails from a historic city in Ohio, but Burrow resembles a Greek God from ancient Athens […]
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