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One Of LSU’s Greatest Games Was A Loss – To USC In Tiger Stadium
BATON ROUGE — If any Team of Troy should have cowardly tried to get out of a game with LSU as the current USC has for two years, it should have been the 1979 Trojans […]
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JIM ENGSTER: Kelly Winning Game of Perception
A Facebook friend recently posted his list of LSU’s best football coaches since 1955. Nick Saban headed the list presented by Paul Hood followed by Brian Kelly, Paul Dietzel, Bill Arnsparger, Les Miles, Charles McClendon […]
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Jim Engster: Another Tiger joins Charlie Mac
The life of Charles Youmans McClendon started 100 years ago this fall. On Oct. 17, 1923, McClendon was born in Lewisville, Arkansas. The South Arkansas town in Lafayette County reported a population of 915 in […]
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Engster: Can LSU be fat cats in the NIL world?
In the infancy of athletes reaping an overdue harvest from brandishing their name, image and likeness, recruiting has blossomed into a full scale bidding war in public view. In the Golden Age of NCAA scrutiny, […]
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Jim Engster: A footnote in LSU football lore quietly slips away
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 […]