LSU Athletic Department Officials are so far not commenting on the condition of freshman signee tailback Derrius Guice who was seen leaving the football operations building in an ambulance Wednesday after collapsing according to sources. Coach Les Miles is expected to give an update today at SEC Media Days. Guice is 18 and was ranked as the No. 2 prep tailback in the nation out of Catholic High by Rivals.com.
Louisiana Tech announces a record for donations made to LTAC, which is the organization that helps fund the school’s athletic programs. The school says during the 2014-2015 fiscal year, 1.1 million dollars was donated to LTAC and the athletic department received another 1.5 million dollars in unrestricted donations. Senior Associate Athletic Director Marco Borne…:
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Tech football won a bowl game in December and the men’s basketball team just won its third straight regular season conference championship.
The Steve Gleason Act is heading to President Obama’s desk for his signature. The legislation is named after former Saints player Steve Gleason, who has A-L-S. The measure will make speech generating devices more accessible to people who battle this disease that impacts the brain’s ability to control muscle movement. US Representative Steve Scalise of Metairie…:
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Gleason pushed this legislation after he learned that Medicare funding for these type of devices was significantly scaled back.
The SEC Network announces plans to run a new Storied documentary on Bo Rein who suddenly died in a plane crash before he ever coached his first game at LSU. The Tigers hired Rein at the end of the 1979 season in hopes of revitalizing the program. Rein died in the plan crash in January 1980 on the way home from a recruiting trip. The title of the documentary is “The Bo You Don’t Know” and is slated to run in September.