11:40 LRN Sportscast

The seventh ranked LSU baseball team won its fifth straight last night beating Louisiana Tech 12 to 3. Jared Jones and Ethan Frey homered for the Tigers. Freshman right-hander William Schmidt started and allowed one earned run in 2.2 innings. It was one of Schmidt’s better outings on the season…

Cut 29 (10) “…get to the kill pitch”

LSU is on its way to Oklahoma as they’ll begin a series tomorrow night against the Sooners.

Louisiana Tech is at U-L Lafayette. The Cajuns outscored Northwestern State nine to seven. Southeastern Louisiana defeated South Alabama eight to six.

LSU men’s basketball has added another scorer out the transfer portal as six-foot-six guard Rashad King has committed to the Tigers. King averaged 18.5 points at Northeastern this season.

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Derek Carr is set to return for his third season as the Saints starting Q-B but that hasn’t stopped first-year head coach Kellen Moore from doing his homework on the quarterbacks in the upcoming draft. Moore traveled to see Miami’s Cam Ward and Ole Miss’ Jaxson Dart perform at their pro days. Moore on what he looks for when he’s evaluating a quarterback…

Cut 16 (15) “…you can”

The NFL owners have approved new rule changes, touchbacks on kickoffs will now come out to the 35-yard-line, the overtime of the regular season will be the same as the postseason, each team will be guaranteed at least one possession, and a vote on a proposal to ban the Tush Push was tabled. Also the Saints plan on holding training camp at its facility in Metairie.