What have the last seven or eight months brought us? A quick check list:
LSU quarterback Myles Brennan still has not participated in practice this week, coach Ed Orgeron said Thursday, adding the focus has shifted away from preparing him to play Saturday at Auburn and instead aiming for LSU’s next game Nov. 14 against …
Editor’s note: This is the sixth in a series of excerpts from The Advocate’s upcoming book, “LSU BY THE NUMBERS,” celebrating the best player (and other greats) to wear each number in Tigers football history. This week: No. 36, Cole Tracy.
Well shut my mouth and mix me a mint julep; ESPN is bringing "College GameDay" to the Masters tournament in November … y’all.
The question was about coverage busts in his pass defense. The coach probably wished he had a better answer.
A pale, gray sky clamped over Tiger Stadium in the hour before kickoff Saturday night.
“Fighters fight. Quitters quit.”
Rare have been the meetings between LSU and South Carolina in football. Saturday’s game marks just the 22nd clash between the Tigers and Gamecocks since their first back in 1930. LSU has dominated the series, leading 18-2-1 including a 12-1 mark i…
Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of excerpts from The Advocate’s upcoming book, “LSU BY THE NUMBERS,” celebrating the best player (and other greats) to wear each number in Tigers football history. This week: No. 82, Wendell Davis.
It’s as though the football gods said to LSU in 2019: “You got perfection and the best season we ever saw. But yea, verily, there will be a price to pay on the back end.”
That Waterford crystal football they used to lift off the BCS national championship trophy was a better analogy for what it means to be a championship program than anyone probably realized at the time.
A week off from playing with the postponement of LSU’s game against Florida on Saturday looks in the moment like a gift for the Tigers’ defense after the way they flailed through two of the first three games against Mississippi State and Missouri.
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from The Advocate’s upcoming book, “LSU BY THE NUMBERS,” celebrating the best player (and other greats) to wear each number in Tigers football history. This week: No. 72, Glenn Dorsey.
Once again, our sports news cycle has switched into up-tempo mode.
LSU fans may not like the fact that their Tigers have to play Florida every season as their cross-divisional Southeastern Conference opponent. But truth be known, the Tigers and Gators have met every year since 1971, long before the SEC had divisi…
When Ed Orgeron got the LSU job full time at the end of the 2016 season, he received a less than top-tier salary to free up more cash for a big-money staff and an eventual expansion of the program’s cadre of non-coaching analysts.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — If your power got knocked out by Hurricane Delta and you’re sitting in a hot, dark house somewhere, perhaps be thankful for one small favor:
What we learned, what's trending and final thoughts from LSU's disastrous loss at Missouri on Saturday.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Disappointed not to be able to see the LSU-Missouri game in person Saturday?
It was another road game in another world, and a storm of a different kind was swirling.
Apparently it is a monumental, earth-moving, split-the-atom kind of effort to finally get the LSU football Tigers to play on the road against the Missouri football Tigers.
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of excerpts from The Advocate’s upcoming book, “LSU BY THE NUMBERS,” celebrating the best player (and other greats) to wear each number in Tigers football history. This week: No. 48, Brad Davis.
The decision to move Saturday’s LSU-Missouri game from Tiger Stadium to Columbia, Missouri, because of the threat of Hurricane Delta is the latest in a rare but growing list of LSU games impacted by great storms. Here are five memorable ones:
This is a sports column. I am a sports columnist. I am also a human being who is willing to assume an acceptable amount of risk during the pandemic world that we are currently living in while also accepting we are all entering into a social contra…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In the shadow ball that is college football in 2020, played before cardboard cutouts and after untold dollars worth of coronavirus testing, the team the LSU Tigers want to be started to materialize Saturday night.
Southeastern Conference Power Ranking
The Advocate's staff gazes into the crystal ball to predict Saturday's game with Vanderbilt in Nashville:
When LSU went to play at Vanderbilt just over a year ago, just another world ago, it was a game about further establishing the Tigers as a national championship contender with a level of play, a standard, that allowed that team to reach that ultim…
Editor’s note: This is the second of a series of excerpts from The Advocate’s upcoming book, “LSU BY THE NUMBERS,” celebrating the best player (and other greats) to wear each number in Tigers football history. This week: No. 11, Bradie James.
This after party was not the one the LSU Tigers wanted to attend.
Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of excerpts from The Advocate’s upcoming book, “LSU BY THE NUMBERS,” celebrating the best player (and other greats) to wear each number in Tigers football history. This week: No. 85, Billy "Red" Hendrix.
This is what Ed Orgeron wanted out of his LSU defense.
A raise and extension for LSU gymnastics coach Jay Clark is back on the agenda Tuesday before the LSU Board of Supervisors.
Time and time again this crazy, bizarro world of an offseason, Ed Orgeron growled “Next man up!” and “We don’t blink!” as the questions about his 2020 LSU Tigers mounted.
Score by quarters
If you’ve always wanted more Southeastern Conference games, your wish has been granted, though not under the circumstances anyone could have imagined.
LSU kicks off the 2020 football season on Saturday against Mississippi State.
To finally reach the moon, astronaut Alan Shepard had to overcome a debilitating inner ear problem that grounded him for years and a string of potentially mission-ending computer glitches as Apollo 14’s lunar lander Antares groped down toward its …
LSU football fans have earned an unparalleled reputation for their intensity, both good and not so good. I remember a Tiger player named Thomas Dunson, who played defensive coordinator Lou Tepper’s infamous “drop linebacker” position in the late 1…
Rivalries with Alabama, Florida and Texas A&M may loom larger on the LSU schedule, but the Tigers have played more games against Mississippi State than any one else. Saturday’s season opener (2:30 p.m., CBS) marks the 114th meeting between the…
Perhaps you’ve seen that now viral video of a shirtless Ed Orgeron jogging at the beach this summer. Or perhaps the photoshopped image of a shirtless, jogging Coach O with the rest of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road.
Ed Orgeron was dropping hints Monday during his first weekly video news conference. Hints about the LSU Tigers’ offense and what it may look like in this strange and new season his team embarks upon Saturday one-quarter-filled Tiger Stadium.
An amended contract for LSU gymnastics coach Jay Clark is on the agenda when the LSU Board of Supervisors meets Monday by video teleconference.
Your daily guide to watching the U.S. Open on TV and online:
The LSU men’s and women’s golf teams have released their fall tournament schedules, highlighted by a dual event in Arkansas in October that will be televised on the Golf Channel.
Remember a couple years back what a big deal it was when Ed Orgeron let slip at a springtime luncheon which LSU player was going to wear No. 18 that season?
Behind the purple and gold mask he has to wear at practice, Ed Orgeron the LSU football coach has to be wishing he had some of the 14 former Tigers selected in the NFL draft back for this 2020 season.
Funeral services will be held Monday for Anne Dietzel, wife of late LSU football coach and athletic director Paul Dietzel.