LRN sportscast 16:45 August 26

The LSU football team scrimmaged under the lights of Tiger Stadium last night and Coach Les Miles gave us an update afterwards on the battle for starting quarterback between Anthony Jennings and Brandon Harris…
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Harris has been taking more of the snaps with the first team since the start of fall camp. Miles acknowledge that Harris’ work during the summer is paying off. Jennings was not part of summer workouts after he was arrested for an alleged break-in.

ULM Head Coach Todd Berry has named redshirt freshman Garrett Smith as the Warhawks starting quarterback. Smith beat out senior Brayle Brown. Smith has been listed as the Warhawks starting QB on the depth chart since the team’s first scrimmage of fall camp.

Former Saints and current Redskins linebacker Junior Galette went down at practice today with a reported torn achilles tendon. Washington head coach Jay Gruden confirmed Galette suffered an injury but didn’t go into details. But reports say Galette will miss the remainder of the year. The 27-year-old was released by the Saints before training camp because of several off-field incidents.

At Saints camp today, Head Coach Sean Payton was not there. Payton left the team for the day so that he bring his daughter, Meghan, to college. She’s attending Pepperdine University. Assistant coach Joe Vitt led the Saints in Payton’s absence. Payton is expected back on Thursday and the team has also scheduled a practice Friday night at Tulane’s Yulman Stadium. The Friday night workout is open to the public.

Louisiana Tech announced today that its homecoming game against North Texas on November seventh will be televised by Fox College Sports. The game will kick-off at 2:30. PM.