The NFL has awarded Super Bowl 53 to Atlanta over New Orleans, as the Georgia city received more votes from the league’s owners than the Crescent City. It’s a second consecutive defeat for New Orleans, who also placed a bid to host the Super Bowl in 2018, but lost to Minneapolis. In both cases, New Orleans lost out to cities, who were building new stadiums.

Tonight, LSU faces Tennessee in the SEC Tournament. The Tigers have won 11 of their last 12 games and they’ve put themselves in a position to possibly be a Top 8 National seed and host up until the College World Series. Coach Paul Mainieri says his team is worthy of Top 8 national seed consideration….
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If LSU loseses tonight, they are elimianted from the SEC Tourney, a win, then it’s double-elimination until Saturday of the tournment.

Louisiana Tech and Rice will meet tomorrow in the Conference USA Baseball Tournament. It will be the fourth meeting in the last six days between the two teams as Tech just swept a three-game series from the Owls. The Bulldogs have won 10 of their last 12, since losing a tough heart breaking extra inning game to Texas San Antonio. Shortstop Chandler Hall says the team learned a tough lesson from that loss…
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Louisiana Tech is seeking its first NCAA Tournament berth since 1987.

In other conference baseball action….Tulane faces Central Florida in the first round of the American Athletic Conference tonight. Tomorrow morning, McNeese battles Northwestern State in the Southland Tourney at 9 AM. At noon, it’s UNO versus Southeastern Louisiana.

UL Lafayette is the top seed in the Sun Belt and the Cajuns will play Arkansas State.