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 […]
Nick Saban’s legacy has taken a hit in the last two weeks. His gifted quarterback passed for 418 yards playing on one good leg against LSU. Ordinarily, the heroic Tua Tagovailoa comeback story would be […]
Sometimes a win in sports has implications for years to come. Ed Orgeron is counting on the 46-41 thumping of Alabama to start a Tuscaloosa trend for LSU. It is always the conviction of long-suffering […]
On the afternoon of Oct. 27, Edward Jim Orgeron reached the pinnacle of his profession. The 58-year-old journeyman coach from the remote Cajun outpost of LaRose is maestro of the team ranked No. 1 in […]
The 2019 Heisman Trophy winner should be determined the week before Louisiana has its gubernatorial run-off between incumbent John Bel Edwards and challenger Eddie Rispone, two men with degrees from LSU. Seven days before Edwards […]
There was a time when the head football coaching post at West Point was more coveted than any other plum in the college game. From 1941-58, Earl “Red” Blaik lost a total of 33 games […]
Joe Burrow’s assault on the LSU record book is relentless. After four games, Burrow has surpassed last year’s total for touchdown passes with 17 and has 1,520 yards in the air. In a 14-game season […]
Twenty years ago, LSU was stumbling through its eighth losing season in eleven years. From 1989-99, the Tigers won 33 SEC games and lost 51. In the 21st Century, LSU is 105-47 in the SEC. […]
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