By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor LSU president Wade Rousse has bestowed new meaning upon the term “Top 40.” This is not about high selling music records. Rousse, a financial expert who worked at the […]
By PIPER HUTCHINSON, Louisiana Illuminator/Tiger Rag LSU has fired chief financial officer Tommy Smith and Todd Manuel, who was its vice president in charge of handling sex-based discrimination complaints amid what campus leaders say are […]
By TODD HORNE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR There is a moment in every public‐ finance story when the words themselves betray a shift in power. At first, the jargon is reassuring—economic development, public‐private partnership, infrastructure, catalytic investment, […]
Tiger Rag News Services The lawsuit challenging the Louisiana State University Economic Development District is not simply about whether LSU should build a new arena. Attorney William Most says it is about something older, simpler […]
By TODD HORNE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR Wade Rousse is not wrong about the arena. This is where the conversation should begin. As LSU’s president, Rousse has made a clear point: the Pete Maravich Assembly Center is […]
By TODD HORNE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR The lawsuit over LSU’s proposed new arena is easy to misunderstand if you start with the arena itself. A $400–$500 million venue would reshape LSU basketball, gymnastics, the attraction of […]
By PIPER HUTCHINSON, Louisiana Illuminator Special To The Tiger Rag The LSU economic development district that is at the center of a lawsuit has begun receiving sales tax revenue, but it is unclear if that […]
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor Last Monday, LSU introduced a new basketball coach in Will Wade in unprecedented fashion in modern college athletics history. Because LSU had just rightfully fired Wade four years ago […]
By ANDRE CHAMPAGNE, Tiger Rag Staff Reporter Will Wade was formally introduced as LSU’s new men’s basketball head coach Monday during a press conference at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, in front of hundreds of […]
Tiger Rag News Services A new era of LSU men’s basketball begins today, as Will Wade returns to Baton Rouge to lead the program back to national prominence. In his first stint with the Tigers, […]
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