The LSU Tigers begin SEC baseball play tonight against Ole Miss as the number one ranked team in the country according to Baseball America. Coach Paul Mainieri says his team earned that number one ranking, by playing solid baseball…

Cut 16 (16) “excites me”

Jared Poche will be tonight’s starting pitcher.

The Saints have traded veteran offensive guard Ben Grubbs to Kansas City for a fifth round draft pick. Saints radio color analyst Hokie Gajan likes the trade and believes Tim Lelito, who started a couple of games at center last season, will be able to move to guard and replace Grubbs…

cut 18 (11) “to the Saints’

The Saints have also signed veteran cornerback Brandon Browner, who won a Super Bowl with the Patriots last season.

The Class Five-A Boys’ basketball championship is tonight in Lake Charles. It’s a rematch of last year’s title tilt as Natchitoches Central faces Scotlandville. Natchitoches Central won last year and this is the sixth straight year Scotlandville has reached the title game.

At 6PM, Midland looks to repeat as Class B champs as they face Anacoco, who is seeking its first boys title.

And the Class C championship game has New Living Word taking on Atlanta. New Living Word is the defending champ.

In the semi-finals of the Conference USA tournament, Louisiana Tech will face UAB at 5:30 today.

Northwestern State will face top seed Stephen F. Austin in the semi-finals of the Southland Conference tournament in New Orleans at 5PM.

In quarterfinal action at the Sun Belt tournament, UL-Lafayette faces Texas State and ULM takes on South Alabama at 7:30.

And LSU begins play in the SEC tournament this afternoon. The number four seed Tigers face Auburn in quarterfinal action beginning at 2PM. That game can be seen on the SEC Network.