The NCAA Baseball Tournament gets underway today. The Fighting Tigers host Lehigh at three o’ clock. Last time out, LSU was held to one run in a loss to Florida in the SEC Tournament. Shortstop Alex Bregman expects the bats will come back to life today…
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Tonight at seven o’ clock in Baton Rouge, it’s Tulane versus UNC Wilmington.

UL Lafayette faces Rice this afternoon in the Houston Regional. One of the Cajuns top hitters is Kyle Clement. The junior from Jeanerette says they are excited to take on one of the best baseball programs in the nation…
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Fans who can’t make it to Houston, can watch the game on the videoboard at Tigue Moore Field.

In a federal courtroom in New Orleans, former NFL player and a member of the Saints Super Bowl team Darren Sharper plead guility to drugging and raping women. His sentencing is set for August 20th. Legal analysts say it’s possible he’ll get a nine year sentence that will run concurrently with the sentence that’s he’s already agreed upon in three other states.

And an Orleans Parish Civil District Court Judge has decided to keep the public out of the court proceedings that will determine if Saints and Pelicans owner Tom Benson is competent to make important business decisions regarding his professional sports franchises. Several media outlets argued that the public should have access, since Benson’s teams receive hundreds of millions of dollars in state money.

The LSU softball team faces Florida tonight at six PM in a winner’s bracket game of the Women’s College World Series.

And Louisiana Tech football has received a verbal commitment from Parkway quarterback Keondre Wudtee.