The annual NFL Scouting Combine started Tuesday, with several prominent LSU prospects looking to impress as the draft nears. Butkus Award Finalist Damone Clark should draw plenty of interest. After collecting 114 tackles in his first three seasons in Baton Rouge, Clark had 135 last season for the Tigers, including 5.5 sacks, and earned Second-team All-America honors from multiple outlets. His nose for the football and his sideline to sideline ability has pushed his name up draft boards says NFL analyst Mike Detillier.
Cut 17 (11) “…in this league.”
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Major League Baseball announced on Tuesday that it was canceling the opening two series of the 2022 season after the players union unanimously rejected what was called the owners’ final offer. Nine straight days of negotiations failed to produce a new collective bargaining agreement. Instead, baseball will extend the ninth work stoppage in the sport’s history, and the fourth to cause the cancellation of games. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said there are no plans at this time to make up those games and players will not be paid.
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Louisiana Tech closes out the home portion of its schedule tonight when they host Old Dominion at the Thomas Assembly Center. The Bulldogs are 11-and-5 in Conference USA, third place in the West. The Monarchs are 7-and-9 in league play, but Tech Coach Eric Konkol says Old Dominion is playing its best basketball of the season…
Cut 19 (18) “…taken it”
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The LSU men’s basketball team has another important test tonight as they go on the road to face 14th-ranked Arkansas. The Tigers still have an outside shot at the fifth seed in the SEC tournament. Nicholls and UNO continue their fight for the top seed in the Southland…the Colonels visit Texas A&M Corpus-Christi and the Privateers host Houston Baptist.
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At the Smoothie King Center tonight, the New Orleans Pelicans will be gunning for their third consecutive win as they host the Sacramento Kings. The Pels are 10th in the Western Conference Standings and just two games behind the Lakers for ninth.