A New Orleans court watchdog group is speaking out against a proposed constitutional amendment that would give the State Senate the power to remove elected judges and district attorneys at the recommendation of the governor. Jesse Manley, the interim executive director of Court Watch NOLA, says the people who put them in their offices are more than capable of doing the deed.
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For now, Louisiana Tech’s football team has quite the 2026 schedule – 20 games over 13 weeks, including two days in November in which they have two road games simultaneously. This, after both Conference USA and the Sun Belt included the Bulldogs in their schedules. Dave Schultz, the host of the Locked On Sun Belt podcast, says Tech has been trying to negotiate an exit from C-USA, but the conference is having none of it.
Three Louisiana teams – two women’s teams and one men’s team – are going dancing in their respective NCAA tournaments. On the women’s side, the LSU Lady Tigers host Jacksonville Friday at 5 p-m. If the Lady Tigers beat the Dolphins, Coach Kim Mulkey’s squad will then host the winner of Texas Tech-Villanova.
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LSU’s Baton Rouge siblings, the Southern Jaguars, take on Samford in the First Four play-in round in Columbia, South Carolina, Thursday evening at six.
On the men’s side, McNeese is Louisiana’s sole representative, and the South Region’s 12th seed takes on fifth-seeded Vanderbilt Thursday at 2:15 in Oklahoma City. Cowboys head coach Bill Armstrong says the team is going to enjoy the ride.