LSU believes it has set the standard with its renovated football operations building that includes a new training room, players lounge, cafeteria and locker room. Equipment manager Greg Stringfellow says each player’s locker features a pod as a chair that folds out into a bed, allowing a player to take a nap
Cut 3 (11) “…resting.”
Stringfellow says no other college football program in the country has a locker room where you can actually lay down and get some rest. He says to have that and a first-class nutrition center should help maximize a player’s efficiency
Cut 5 (11) “…perform.”
The renovations cost 23-million dollars and were paid for by private donations through the Tiger Athletic Foundation.

LSU announces it will retire the jersey of men’s basketball all-American Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. The jersey will be retired during a game in the upcoming season. The Gulfport, Mississippi, native was named a first-team All-American in 1989 and 1990 and he’s the only freshman in college basketball history to average over 30 points per game.

Former major leaguer Lee Smith is now in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. The Bienville Parish native came from the small town of Castor, which has about four-hundred people in it. He finished with 478 saves. Two of his best seasons were in the early 1990s with the Cardinals, where he saved 47 and 43 games in back-to-back seasons.

At Sun Belt Media Day in New Orleans, Ragin Cajuns coach Billy Napier announced that starting center Cole Prudhomme underwent surgery after tearing his A-C-L late in spring practice. Napier says they’ll make a determination in September on whether Prudhomme will play this season or red shirt. Third-year sophomore Shane Vallot is a top candidate to replace Prudhomme.