TO DISCUSS THIS COLUMN, EMAIL JIM ENGSTER AT … [email protected] By JIM ENGSTER, President, Tiger Rag Lane Kiffin reigns as the most polarizing college football wizard since Nick Saban called it a career after 17 […]
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor Apparently, the “Ruston Rifle” was just that. Bert Jones, who became LSU’s first All-American quarterback in 1972, was from Ruston and given the rifle nickname when playing for Ruston […]
There was a time in college football when one loss spelled doom for any power vying for a national championship. Most of the winners were undefeated for generations, and LSU remains the lone titlist to […]
By JIM ENGSTER, PRESIDENT It was the nonagenarian crooner Willie Nelson who said, “Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play.” The quote from […]
The 2026 football season is the 50th for this writer since enrolling at LSU in 1977. The first home game for me was a 77-0 rout of Rice on Sept. 24, 1977. It is the […]
Sometimes, winds of change blow in unexpected directions. Predicting the next football coach at LSU is as unsure as annual forecasts from the National Hurricane Center. Recent coaching storms reveal the Ole War Skule has […]
The Ole War Skule has produced a candidate for best athlete of the first quarter of the Twenty-First Century. Armand Duplantis has reigned as the top pole vaulter of all time for five years and […]
LSU officials are embracing the prospect of a $400 million arena to replace the PMAC. Athletic Director Scott Woodward says the facility will open in 2029 despite ample concerns about the selection process. It has […]
The first-hand experience of this observer of LSU sports began in my freshman year of 1977. LSU football was still king despite a six-year drought against Bear Bryant and Alabama. The most exciting back since […]
When William Fleming Tate IV was hired as LSU President, it was predicted in this space he would adapt street fighting skills honed as a lad on the streets of south Chicago to shake things […]
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