The world’s best skateboarders, BMX and Moto X athletes are in New Orleans this weekend for the first ever X Games Championship event. Joe Gallinaro talked with Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation President Jay Cicero.

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Also this weekend, it’s the Great American Seafood Cook-off. Thirteen chefs from around the country will try to cook up the best seafood dish in the land on Saturday at the Morial Convention Center…

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That’s Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser. He says Kris Allen from Lafayette will represent Louisiana.

The SEC preseason media poll has been released and the LSU Tigers are predicted to finish in fifth place. Georgia is picked to win the SEC for a third consecutive season. Texas is picked to finish second, followed by Ole Miss, Texas A-and-M and LSU. Linebacker Whit Weeks says one of reasons he came back was to restore the tradition of LSU’s defense…

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Louisiana Works has received a federal grant that will be used to train inmates who are closed to finishing their prison sentence so they can get a job in manufacturing, construction and shipbuilding…

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Louisiana Works Secretary Susie Schowen says the grant is for more than five million dollars.