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Football 2011 special section
LSU’s evolution into the No. 1 team in the country and a participant in the BCS National Championship Game has been a democratic one. It doesn’t matter what class you’re in or whether you’re officially a starter or not. If …
Continue Reading →It's time to stop talking about who you think is going to win. It's gametime in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Continue reading →
Les Miles has been called, by his own admission, a Mad Hatter and a grass chewer. In 2011, LSU’s football coach will try to take on another nickname: Flame keeper. With clocklike and geographic precision, there are expectations that LSU will make a long run at a short trip down Interstate 10 to New … Continue reading →
METAIRIE -When the 2009 New Orleans Saints won Super Bowl XLIV, finally ending the franchise’s 42-year drought, there were lots of reasons to believe their window of opportunity was open for more to come. The pieces were definitely in place to make another run last season with the core of their championship team returning intact - … Continue reading →
A few months after Southern University wrapped up its worst football season in school history, Stump Mitchell agreed to make a big change. It was a change in scheme. Color scheme, that is. As if to prove that everything old can be new again, Mitchell signed off on an order for new uniforms … Continue reading →
Sean Osbourne never worried about getting a concussion. But the former Dutchtown High football player knew something was wrong after one play during his redshirt freshman year at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. “We were playing Kansas State,” Osbourne said. “We looked at it on film and it didn’t seem like much. My head … Continue reading →
LAFAYETTE - Ask first-year University of Louisiana at Lafayette coach Mark Hudspeth to explain why the program he inherited hasn’t enjoyed much success in three decades, and he admits there is no quick answer. “I haven’t quite figured that out as to why (ULL) hasn’t gotten over the hump,” says Hudspeth, who was hired in December after … Continue reading →
The 2011 recruiting class in Louisiana was one for the ages, a recruiting pool with the kind of deep end that comes around about only once a decade. A quick check of the calendar confirms that for the 2012 class not that much time has passed - and as expected, the depth of talent isn’t that deep. Continue reading →