The question put to Ed Orgeron was whether his LSU team can get to where it wants to be without a more effective running game.
STARKVILLE, Miss. — It was this kind of Saturday for LSU:
After losing 16-14 to Wisconsin in Green Bay to open the 2016 season, followed by wins over Jacksonville State and Mississippi State, LSU’s fourth game at Auburn became Les Miles' Waterloo.
Notes on a golf scorecard from Wednesday, the first gorgeous day of fall, which makes me want to be chipping and putting instead of typing …
Rivalries with Alabama, Florida and Texas A&M may loom larger on the LSU schedule in terms of fan interest, but the Tigers have played more games against Mississippi State than any other opponent. Saturday’s SEC opener (11 a.m., SEC Network) m…
Nearly one year ago, the skies turned ashen for LSU. Mississippi State rode into Tiger Stadium on Sept. 26 wielding the sword of self-styled pirate and unapologetically eccentric coach Mike Leach as his Air Raid offense rolled off the showroom floor.
On a Saturday when even the nation's most mighty looked vulnerable — well, except for Georgia, which went into soul-crushing mode against South Carolina — the LSU Tigers took home the prize for most improved.
The Central Michigan Chippewas, LSU’s opponent Saturday in Tiger Stadium, has no doubt prompted a few questions of “Who’s that?” from Tiger fans. It’s not the first time LSU has played a non-conference foe who flew under the radar coming into the …
For a school you probably know little about, Central Michigan boasts some famous former students.
The ripples on the pond of LSU’s bowl projections resulting from that big rock of a 38-27 loss to UCLA in the season opener keep spreading farther out. The nine projections we found this week have the Tigers (1-1 after a modest 34-7 win over McNee…
During his football-playing career, from Carencro High School to LSU to the New England Patriots, Kevin Faulk warmed the hearts of thousands, perhaps millions of fans.
Notes on a golf scorecard while wondering how many folks at Texas are rethinking this whole Southeastern Conference thing after Saturday’s smackdown at Arkansas …
LSU’s offense reminds me of that recent commercial where the guy shows his landlord a water stain on the ceiling.
1. WHAT WE LEARNED
When last we saw Tiger Stadium as Tiger Stadium, the real jet airplane engine loud, ground shaking, bourbon aftershave smelling Death Valley, a guy named Joe Burrow was running under the goalposts with the name “Burreaux” on the back of his jersey…
When the LSU men’s and women’s basketball teams open play in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in November, they will likely be shooting and running and dribbling on Dale Brown Court.
Like the Tigers themselves, LSU’s bowl hopes took a beating in the wake of Saturday’s 38-27 loss at UCLA. LSU is down but not out, though, with the nine bowl projections we found picking the Tigers to wind up somewhere in the postseason. Unlike so…
The world outside of the LSU football program is losing its mind in the wake of the Tigers’ 38-27 loss Saturday at UCLA.
LSU unveiled its 2022 gymnastics schedule Wednesday, one that includes a visit from 2020 Olympic all-around gold medal winner Suni Lee of Auburn and from perennial national power Utah.
LSU hosts McNeese State on Saturday to open its 98th home schedule in Tiger Stadium. The first game there was way back on Nov. 27, 1924, when the Tigers lost 13-0 to Tulane in a stadium that was one of the first structures completed on LSU’s new c…
At least five players, including both of LSU’s starting offensive tackles, have been ruled out of Saturday’s home opener in Tiger Stadium against McNeese State.
PASADENA, Calif. — Throughout the busy, bumpy months leading up to this LSU football season, the storylines were numerous. And urgent.
PASADENA, Calif. — As day melted into night and the San Gabriel Mountains rising behind the venerable old Rose Bowl disappeared from view, the picture left beneath the lights was hardly a pretty one for the LSU Tigers.
What we learned, what's trending and final thoughts from an ugly opener in the Rose Bowl.
LOS ANGELES — Down on Venice Beach, amid the surfers and the street people and the sand and the wafting marijuana smoke, a large contingent of folks seemed blissfully unaware of Saturday’s big LSU-UCLA game. Or very much else.
The LSU Tigers didn’t go bowling last season for the first time since 1999, choosing to try to diminish their NCAA investigation problems with a self-imposed one-year ban. The Tigers are back in the market for a postseason destination in 2021 thou…
“Welcome to Hollywood!
LSU’s 128th season opens Saturday with a significant first: the Tigers' first-ever game at the legendary Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, where they will take on the UCLA Bruins. It's a game sure to take its place alongside many other memorable …
It’s been a spotty preseason of practice for Derek Stingley Jr.
LSU's athletic facilities appeared to have escaped without significant damage as Hurricane Ida stormed through southeast Louisiana from Sunday afternoon through Monday morning.
Once again, the sound of football whistles and clattering shoulder pads has been replaced. Instead, we hear the sounds of generators and chainsaws.
Coming off a 5-5 record with a still young quarterback, new offensive and defensive coordinators and questions at running back, receiver, tight end, offensive line and linebacker, picking how the LSU Tigers will do in 2021 lifts guesswork to an art form.
Early in the great baseball movie “Eight Men Out,” after he has intentionally lost the first game of the 1919 World Series, Chicago White Sox ace Eddie Cicotte visits sportswriting legend Ring Lardner in his Cincinnati hotel room.
Tackling the Tigers' key issue, team leader, breakout player and a season prediction.
In honor of LSU’s trip to La La Land to take on UCLA next Saturday in the Rose Bowl, we decided to compile a list of the best college football movies of all time. Tell us which ones we got right or wrong on our website.
So much of the ink and screen time devoted to LSU football this season is fixated on whether the Tigers can recapture something of the offensive spark of 2019.
CARNOUSTIE, Scotland — Former LSU All-American Madelene Sagstrom recorded her best finish in a professional major Sunday, tying for second in the AIG Women’s Open at the Carnoustie Golf Links.
A Bengal Belles luncheon is like an old-time tent revival with a purple and gold LSU sports bent, a happening gilded with glitz and enthusiasm for which even coach Ed Orgeron and the football program’s gleaming 2019 CFP national championship troph…
As the parallel lines being drawn between this LSU football season and the 2019 campaign begin to converge on that point on the horizon that is the season opener at UCLA on Sept. 4, the more my mind is also drawn to where LSU was in August 2018.
David Toms said he’s a forward-looking, not-one-to-dwell-on-the-past kind of guy.
Notes on a golf scorecard as we ponder polls, rolls and coveted cards …
With the start of the fall semester just one week away, new LSU women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey continues to add players to her roster.
The LSU Tigers will start the season ranked No. 16 in The Associated Press poll, which was released Monday.
Of all the places he’s lived and played, Ali Gaye likes LSU and Tiger Stadium the best.
New LSU President William F. Tate IV is a competitive guy.
Bobby Bowden built a college football dynasty at Florida State, with over 300 career wins (377 in his career overall) and national championships in 1993 and 1999. From 1987-2000, his Seminoles finished in the top four of the final Associated Press…
There aren’t many players on LSU’s roster with whom Andre Anthony can compare notes.
Alan Faneca was always a goal-oriented person, even if he didn't know it.