LSU’s Joe Burrow has been named Associated Press College Football Player of the Year. Burrow received 50 of 53 first-place votes. He is in Atlanta today along with wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase for the Home Depot College Football Awards. Chase is up for the Biletnikoff Award, which goes to the nation’s top receiver. Burrow can win the Davey O’ Brien National Quarterback Award and the Maxwell Award, which goes to the top player in college football.

Former Saints wide receiver Joe Horn is among a group of NFL retired players involved in an alleged scheme to defraud an NFL health care benefit program. Prosecutors say these former players submitted false claims to the plan and received money for expensive medical equipment never purchased. Horn could be charged with fraud.

Saints Quarterback Drew Brees will appear in an episode of the C-B-S TV Show Undercover Boss. Walk-on’s founder and co-owner Brandon Landry along with Brees will be on the season premiere show on January 8th. Brees is in disguise, with long hair and a beard and goes by the name of “Chris.” Chris will be a busser and dishwasher.

Offensive Tackle Terron Armstead has named the club’s 2019 Walter Payton Payton Man of the Year Award.

The Prep Classic begins tomorrow at the Superdome as six championship football games will be held. It starts at noon with Ouachita Christian facing Catholic Pointe Coupee. At 3:30 Many meets Ferriday and at 7 PM, Jennings battles undefeated St. James for the 3-A title.

If you are a big duck hunter then you’ll need to check out tonight’s documentary on L-P-B called In the Blind. Producer Emma Lou Reid of New Orleans says the show traces the evolution of duck hunting from a do or die way of life to a highly popular, and highly regulated sport.
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The program airs at 7 PM and 11:30 tonight and will re-air 6:30 Sunday.