The number one ranked LSU baseball team plays its final non-conference game of the season tonight as they visit the UNO Privateers. On paper this looks like a big mismatch as the Tigers are 43-and-8 overall, while the Privateers are 14-and-36. But LSU Coach Paul Mainieri knows UNO will be fired up to play this game…

cut 16 (11) “for their season”

LSU has four more regular season games left then the SEC Tournament, before the NCAA Tournament field is released.

In other college baseball action, Nicholls State puts their eight-game winning streak on the line when they host UL-Lafayette tonight. Northwestern State takes on Louisiana Tech and Tulane takes on Southern Miss in a makeup game from April 14.

The New Orleans Saints have announced they’ve signed six of their 2015 draft picks and that includes Quarterback Garrett Grayson and linebacker Hau’oli Kikaha.

Of course, the big story out of the NFL is that the league has suspended Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for the first four games of the upcoming season. The franchise has also been fined one-million dollars and loses its 2016 first round draft pick as a result of an investigation that looked into the Patriots purposely deflating footballs to lower amounts that the league has specified. Brady’s agent says the quarterback plans to appeal the suspension. By the way, the Saints will play New England in week two of the preseason.

There are reports that Ruston athletic director and former football coach Billy Laird suffered a stroke over the weekend. According to K-T-V-E’s Brady Renard, doctors are still performing tests. Laird was the head football coach Ruston, before stepping down a couple of years ago. He was a quarterback at Louisiana Tech prior Terry Bradshaw in the 1960s.