Skip Bertman Takes Over Tiger Rag Radio Tonight With His Players Todd Walker, Ryan Theriot, Doug Thompson, Others

TIGER RAG NEWS SERVICES

Discussion of the late, great Skip Bertman will take up all nine innings of Tuesday night’s statewide Tiger Rag Radio show from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. – 107.3 FM in Baton Rouge, 106.7 FM The Ticket in New Orleans and 103.7 The Game in Lafayette, among other stations.

Or you can listen to the show online by clicking here.

Other stations around Louisiana carrying the show will be:

KFNV 107.1 FM in Ferriday … Tape delay at 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday

KLCJ 104.1 FM in Lake Charles … Live

WAKH 105.7 FM in McComb, Mississippi … Live.

KASO 1240 AM in Minden … Live

KRLQ 94.1 FM in Ruston … Tape delay at 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday

WSLA 1560 AM in Slidell … Live.

WGSO 990 AM in New Orleans … Tape delay at 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. on Saturday

KBZE 105.9 FM in Morgan City … 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday

Bertman passed away at 1:12 a.m. Friday morning at Baton Rouge General Hospital after battling heart issues. He was 88. Bertman, his wife Sandy and four daughters Jan, Jodi, Lisa and Lori moved to Baton Rouge from Miami in the summer of 1983 when Bertman was 45 into a home in Riverbend near LSU that Bertman remained in for the rest of his life.

Skip Bertman Celebration Of Life Ceremony Will Be At The Pete Maravich Assembly Center On Tuesday, August 25

After winning the 1982 national championship as associate head coach/pitching coach of the Miami Hurricanes from 1976-83, Bertman won five national championships with the Tigers in 1991, ’93, ’96, ’97 and 2000 before retiring and becoming LSU athletic director after the 2001 season. He guided LSU to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, as coach 11 times – in his third season in 1986 and then in 1987, ’89, ’90, ’91, ’93, ’94, ’96, ’97, ’98 and 2000.

Skip Bertman was so much more than a college baseball coach. He built it, and they never left. Column:https://t.co/AvNwuH4XuO

— Glenn Guilbeau (@SportBeatTweet) August 17, 2026

Joining Tiger Rag Radio host Jeff Palermo of the Louisiana Radio Network will be Tiger Rag executive editor Todd Horne, Tiger Rag/LRN reporter and radio producer Kace Kieschnick and Tiger Rag editor/columnist Glenn Guilbeau, who wrote the biography of Bertman – “Everything Matters In Baseball: The Skip Bertman Story.”

Former LSU shortstop Ryan Theriot, who scored the winning run in Bertman’s last national championship game in 2000, will join the radio show at 6:15 p.m., followed at 6:30 p.m. by Doug Thompson, who was the winning pitcher in the 1997 national championship game. Then LSU second baseman great Todd Walker, the MVP of the 1993 College World Series for the national champion Tigers, will come on at 7 p.m.

🆕 Etheridge: Bertman leaves a legacy greater than titles@LSUBaseball legend Skip Bertman won at unprecented rate. But there is more than just wins and losses for this coach’s legacy https://t.co/Li1iJev9lQ

— D1Baseball (@d1baseball) August 14, 2026

D1 Baseball writer Mark Etheridge will join the show at 7:30 p.m. Etheridge wrote an excellent column on Bertman last Friday.

"When Skip became athletic director, the trajectory of women's athletics and gymnastics at LSU took a very positive turn." @LSUgym great DD Breaux on the late Skip Bertman as the #LSU AD.

Watch complete visit – https://t.co/B8qBcDGMTV @LSUbaseball pic.twitter.com/Ys1SME0bjQ

— Jacques Doucet (@JacquesDoucet) August 17, 2026

A special guest will be former LSU gymnastics coaching legend D-D Breaux, who has often praised Bertman for opening previously shut doors to women’s athletics at LSU as athletic director from 2001-09.