Alabama head football coach Nick Saban tested negative for COVID-19 on Thursday, after testing positive on Wednesday, according to the director of sports medicine at the University of Alabama. The initial positive result came from an outside lab used to supplement SEC testing. According to the SEC if Saban receives three negative tests, each 24 hours apart, the initial test would be considered a false positive and he would be allowed to return to the team.
LSU Student Body President Stone Cox has sent a letter to University Interim President Thomas Galligan suggesting that all students participate in mandatory monthly Covid-19 testing to move the school into phase 3. Cox says that moving into phase 3 would be a big step in the right direction.
Campaign finance reports indicate U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy has raised as much money in the last quarter as his main Democratic challenger, Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins. But overall, Cassidy’s war chest is much larger. UL-Lafayette Poli-Sci Professor Pierson Cross says numbers indicate Perkins is appealing to both state and national democrats.
Friday was the first day of early voting and a long, socially distanced line wrapped around the Secretary of State’s office. This voter says she’s a frequent early voter and has never seen this many people in line before. She says when she first saw the line she turned around but decided to come back…
LA Tech takes on Marshall at 4:45 Saturday. Both teams are undefeated.