The Pelicans want to keep their fairytale season alive tonight as they face playoff elimination against the Warriors in Oakland. It’s been a rough series for the Pels, who are down 3 to 1 with their only win coming at home. Anthony Davis, whose averaging 30 points and 13 rebounds in the playoffs, says they know what it’ll take to steal a game at home from a team that hasn’t lost a playoff game at Oracle Arena in their last 14 contests.

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And the Saints are losing running back Mark Ingram for the first four games of the season after he tested positive for PEDs. That means he’ll miss crucial divisional competitions against Tampa and Atlanta, and return to action in time for the game against Washington. Ingram combined with Alvin Kamara for over 3,000 yards last season.

Jerry Stovall’s number 21 will be retired by LSU this season. “Mr. Everything” is a college football hall of fame player who played both sides of the ball, and even punted during his time with the Tigers in the early 60s, and was the no.2 draft pick in the 1963 NFL draft.

After playing nine seasons in the league, Stovall returned to LSU, first as assistant, and then as head coach after Charlie McClendon’s plane disappeared over the Atlantic. Starting in 1980, he had two winning seasons and two losing seasons, winning SEC coach of the year for his 8-3-1 1982 season.

Stovall was fired by the school in 1983 after a disastrous 4-7 season where he went 0 and 6 in the SEC. Stovall would serve as athletic director for Louisiana Tech from 1990 to 1994. He now serves as the President and CEO of the Baton Rouge Area Sports Foundation.

Stovall joins Billy cannon, number 20, and Tommy Casanova, number 37, as the only other Tigers football players to have their numbers retired.