What does LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri want most for Christmas?
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Devin White could have made up his mind to leave LSU already.
Monday, December 10, 2018
For a mere exhibition, LSU’s Gymnastics 101 Showcase on Monday night had plenty of what you want to see in a sporting event.
Sunday, December 09, 2018
TAMPA, Fla. — The New Orleans Saints looked like they had lost their way.
McKenna Kelley wore the glittery LSU uniforms last season. Screamed encouragement for her teammates. Even took part in the theatrical pre-meet introductions.
Friday, December 07, 2018
If you are going into the Fiesta Bowl thinking LSU is just going to roll over UCF because the Tigers are more battle-tested from the Southeastern Conference, think again.
Tuesday, December 04, 2018
Devin White will stay — at least for now.
Sunday, December 02, 2018
By the time it became official Sunday, when LSU’s name flashed up on ESPN across from Central Florida in a Fiesta Bowl matchup on New Year’s Day, it almost seemed anticlimactic. A matter of course.
The Advocate’s Scott Rabalais is a member of the 2018 Associated Press college football poll voting panel. Here is his ballot after Week 14:
Saturday, December 01, 2018
ATLANTA — Alabama, the team being debated as college football’s greatest ever, was actually in trouble. Again.
ATLANTA — Is LSU about to make its first-ever trip to a New Year's Six bowl?
Saturday, December 01, 2018
ATLANTA — From rout to rally, Alabama pulled off the biggest comeback in Southeastern Conference Championship Game history Saturday against Georgia.
Friday, November 30, 2018
Rabalais: Even if Georgia loses to Bama, the Bulldogs make a case to be in the CFP ... and for chaos
ATLANTA — As the college football season reaches its crescendo weekend, the college football-loving world cries out:
ATLANTA — In the years when LSU has not been in the Southeastern Conference Championship Game, the game often factors into where the Tigers will go bowling.
Friday, November 30, 2018
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Rabalais: Once again, the Cowboys are there to douse a long Saints win streak with a sobering defeat
ARLINGTON, Texas — Back in 2009, when the New Orleans Saints' epic season-opening 13-game winning streak finally fizzled out, it was the Dallas Cowboys who were there to douse the flame.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
The College Football Playoff committee’s infatuation with LSU did not end with the Tigers’ 74-72 seven-overtime loss to Texas A&M.
Southeastern Conference coordinator of football officials Steve Shaw said despite the huge number of plays and controversial calls Saturday in LSU’s 74-72 seven-overtime loss at Texas A&M, the crew calling the game in College Station, Texas, b…
Rabalais: If you wondered whether LSU's Ed Orgeron was still steaming over the Texas A&M game, he is
Ed Orgeron is still mad as hell about how his LSU Tigers lost Saturday at Texas A&M in seven overtimes, and he does not give a Christmas fig who knows it.
This is a transcript of LSU football coach Ed Orgeron’s appearance on the “Off the Bench” show Tuesday morning on WNXX-FM 104.5 with Jordy Culotta and T-Bob Hebert talking about the Tigers’ 74-72 seven overtime loss Saturday at Texas A&M:
Monday, November 26, 2018
The LSU Tigers were at times Saturday night one play, even one second, from locking up a 10-2 season and a New Year’s Six bowl bid with a victory at Texas A&M.
Sunday, November 25, 2018
As the scores piled high to the heavens Saturday night between LSU and Texas A&M, something was in the process of being born that LSU has not had in football since Tulane ceased being a formidable Southeastern Conference foe in the 1940s:
146 points ... 197 plays ... 10 touchdown passes ... 0 interceptions ... 4 hours, 53 minutes — a look at all the craziest numbers.
Saturday, November 24, 2018
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The world no longer makes sense.
After going on the road for a surprising 58-45 victory at Florida State last Sunday, the LSU women’s basketball team is back home in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center aiming to build on their momentum with a three-game homestand.
Friday, November 23, 2018
1. Head them off with the pass
Recruiting writers will tell you that blue-chip prospects rarely choose which school to attend based on the result of one game.
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Maybe it was the short week. Maybe it was a turkey-induced Thanksgiving day hangover. Certainly it was a brave and desperate effort by an Atlanta Falcons team that saw its season tumbling toward oblivion.
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
LSU and Texas A&M have been playing annually since the Aggies joined the SEC in 2012, but the Tigers and Aggies have been tangling for much than that. The series began way back in 1899, with LSU holding a 33-20-3 lead, including seven straight…
Tua Tagovailoa
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
The stakes for the LSU Tigers in Saturday’s regular-season finale at Texas A&M rightly appear enormous:
One week to remaining in the regular season and the consensus remains for LSU to be in the Peach Bowl.
Two former LSU All-Americans, a former New Orleans Saints linebacker and a Louisiana native have moved their helmets one step closer to Canton.
Justin Jefferson, LSU’s leading receiver, was missing from practice Tuesday afternoon during the portion of the Tigers’ workouts open to the media.
Monday, November 19, 2018
When Ed Orgeron was preparing to take the LSU Tigers to Texas A&M this time two years ago, he had no idea if they would still be his Tigers when they got back.
Sunday, November 18, 2018
This is what the New Orleans Saints reduced the reigning Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles to during their 48-7 win Sunday:
The Advocate’s Scott Rabalais is a member of the 2018 Associated Press college football poll voting panel. Here is his ballot after Week 12:
Saturday, November 17, 2018
If you subjected LSU coach Ed Orgeron to some sort of truth serum before Saturday night’s exhibition game with Rice, you probably could have gotten him to reveal a checklist that looked something like this:
The Cat in the Hat is apparently back.
Friday, November 16, 2018
In soccer they call them “friendlies” — games between countries that have no impact on the standings.
1. Cleared for takeoff
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Rarely if ever have LSU’s postseason prospects been as scattered as they are with two weeks to go in the regular season.
The Tigers and Owls have met more frequently in the NCAA baseball tournament than in football the past couple of decades. Saturday’s game marks their first meeting in football since 1995, though long-time LSU fans will recall the Tigers used to fa…
Tua Tagovailoa
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Summary: The spread for LSU’s bowl projections has narrowed more than at any point this season, though not necessarily in a bad way. Not unless you want to see the Tigers in the Sugar Bowl, that is. Of 16 national bowl projections polled by The Ad…
Monday, November 12, 2018
Never have I covered an LSU football season where sliding was such an issue.
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Scott Rabalais' AP Top 25 for Nov. 11: Chaos takes a holiday, and the rankings reflect little change
The Advocate’s Scott Rabalais is a member of the 2018 Associated Press college football poll voting panel. Here is his ballot after Week 11: