Former LSU pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis was named the winner of the 2020 World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year award on Saturday morning. Duplantis, who is 21 years old, becomes the youngest winner of […]
LSU’s women’s cross country team matched its second-highest finish during Friday’s Southeastern Conference cross country championships with a fifth-place finish at the University Club. Led by the 12th place finish of junior Katy-Ann McDonald, the Tigers […]
Finally, after about 7½ months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the LSU athletic department laid off at least eight employees Thursday and mandated a 5 percent salary decrease in 2021 for staff earning more than $80,000. […]
LSU sophomore cross country runner Julia Palin was dead set against her mother’s wishes. The suggestion of having to email former LSU cross country coach Mark Rinker for an opportunity to run for the Tigers […]
In this year’s COVID-shortened cross country schedule, teams also face a disjointed postseason in hopes of reaching the NCAA Championships which have been moved to next March. Schools such as LSU had the opportunity of […]
After a summer’s worth of training where hot temperatures and suffocating humidity were generally prevalent, LSU’s Davis Bove embraced a surprise of sorts. LSU’s cross country teams conducted their season-opening competition at the University Club […]
Former LSU pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis broke Sergey Bubka’s 26-year-old outdoor world record on Thursday, clearing 20 feet, 2.126 inches. Duplantis cleared the height of his second attempt at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea meet […]
Former prominent LSU athletic figures Glenn Dorsey, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and Pat Henry are among the eight Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2021 inductees. A 40-member Louisiana Sports Writers Association committee selected the inductees. […]
LSU second-year cross country coach Houston Franks realizes conducting a season in a COVID-19 world means the best teams may be ones that remain coronavirus-free. “It’s going to be a strange year,” said Franks, whose […]
Welcome to the 15th category of our Tiger Rag High Five, the best all-time women sports head coach. A 15-member media panel with a collective 582 years of sports journalism experience picked LSU’s five best […]
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