Today is the first full day of Summer and State Climatologist Barry Keim says based on how it feels outside, it’s arrived right on time…
cut 2 (28) “…I’m Eric Gill”

Sad news involving former Nicholls State baseball standout Darryl Hamilton. The Baton Rouge native was found dead in suburban Houston in an apparent murder-suicide. Authorities believe a 44-year-old woman shot Hamilton numerous times, before turning the gun on herself. Hamilton played 13 seasons in the big leagues. He was 50-years-old.

IBM reportedly cancelled a ribbon cutting ceremony that was scheduled for today at the company’s new National Service Center in downtown Baton Rouge, as a result of Governor Bobby Jindal’s religious freedom executive order. In April, an IBM exectuve sent Jindal a letter expressing their objection to a religious freedom bill that Jindal supported in the legislative session.

The next Voice of the Tigers is Georgia Southern’s play-by-play man Chris Blair. Jim Hawthorne will retire following the 2015-16 men’s basketball season. Blair says when he applied for Hawthorne’s job, he never imagined he would be the one selected…:
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Blair will begin calling games at LSU starting with the 2016 LSU baseball season and his title will be Director of Radio Broadcasting.