LSU legend Skip Bertman passed away early this morning at the age of 88. Bertman led LSU Baseball to five College World Series titles and 11 trips to Omaha and hired four national championship-winning coaches as Athletic Director. Former LSU pitcher Ben McDonald says Bertman transformed LSU into the greatest baseball program in the country.
Cut 3 (10) “…game of baseball.”
Bertman was a master tactician, marketer and motivator. He revolutionized LSU athletics fundraising and changed every part of LSU baseball for the better. Most importantly, he cared deeply about his players. Tiger Rag Editor and author of Bertman’s biography Glenn Guilbeau says ex-LSU outfielder Rich Cordani confirmed just that.
Cut 6 (10) “…were his sons.”
The Ochsner Transplant Institute has performed ten thousand transplants since 1970. Institute Director Dr. Ari Cohen says the program has grown exponentially in recent years, striving to stay on the cutting edge with robotic-assisted kidney transplants and pediatric heart and living-donor lung transplants. He says there are still over 100-thousand people across the country and two-thousand Louisianians waiting for a life-saving transplant.
Like many restaurant owners, the co-founder and CEO of Lafayette-based Salad Station, Scott Henderson, is reassuring diners that all the produce they serve is cyclospora-free. He says despite heightened communication with customers, sales have been down since the outbreak started, and he’s afraid of another consequence.