The Pelicans seek their fifth straight win tonight when they face the Lakers in Los Angeles. Zion Williamson and Jonas Valanciunas are both listed as questionable with injuries. Valanciunas who has a right calf contusion has not missed a game this season.

Tomorrow the LSU men’s basketball team hosts 16th ranked Alabama. Tigers Coach Matt McMahon says Jalen Cook is quesitonable with a hamstring injury and Hunter Dean is also questionable because of an illness.

In other action tomorrow, ULM hosts Eastern Michigan in the Sun Belt-MAC challenge. Southeastern is at Northwestern State. McNeese hosts Texas A-and-M Corpus Christi in front of a sold out crowd. Grambling battles Alabama State in Ruston and Southern hosts Alabama A-and-M at 5:30.

The LSU baseball team is a week away from the start of a new college baseball season. Shreveport’s Hayden Travinski is back for a fifth season. Coach Jay Johnson says Travinski will provide some much needed protection in the line-up for Tommy White….
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White has been named to the Golden Spikes Award preseason watch list along with right-handed pitcher Luke Holman.

The Saints will reportedly named Andrew Janocko as the team’s new quarterbacks coach. Janocko spent the last two seasons with the Bears. After the Super Bowl, New Orleans is expected to name 49ers passing game coordinator Klint Kubiak as the team’s new offensive coordinator.