The public health emergency we are facing means we’ll have to live without sports for awhile. Last night, the NBA made the decision to suspend its season. The NHL is doing the same and Major League Baseball is suspending spring-training games and delaying the start of the regular season by at least two weeks.

The SEC has canceled all games between now and March 30th. That includes the SEC Tournament in Nashville. The LSU baseball team was set to leave for Oxford to begin SEC play versus Ole Miss. But as soon as they got on the bus, they got off and were told there will be no games until at least March 31st. Coach Paul Mainieri understands why they need to halt play, but he’s still sad for his players, because they’ll never be able to relive this part of their life…
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Due to the coronavirus, the NFL has canceled its upcoming league meetings in Palm Beach, Florida from March 29th to April 1st. So any proposed rule changes will now be placed on the NFL spring meetings agenda on May 19th to the 20th.

The Southland and Conference USA have suspended their spring sporting events. Northwestern State, Nicholls and Louisiana Tech were all scheduled to play in tournament basketball games today, but those tournament games have been called off.

High school basketball games are being played in Lake Charles as the boys state basketball tournament continues at the Burton Coliseum. Earlier today, in Class One-A, top seeded North Central defeated Tensas 58-48. They will play the winner of tonights’ game between Grand Lake and Lincoln Prepatory School.

Last night, Alexandria and Bonnabel advanced to tomorrow night’s Class Five-A Championship game. The Trojans beat Hahnville 70-54 and the Bruins defeated Walker 65-60.

Also tomorrow, the Class C title game between district rivals Pleasant Hill and Hicks. And in Two-A, Rayville will face Port Allen in a rematch of last year’s title game won by Rayville.