11:40/16:45 LRN Sportscast

LSU baseball begins a three game series at Alabama tonight. The Tigers are fighting for their playoff lives and they face a Crimson Tide team this weekend that is beatable. On3.com baseball analyst Jonathan Wagner on LSU’s postseason chances…
Cut 18 (18) “… it’s possible.”
Game 1 of the series is tonight at 6 PM.

Former LSU basketball star Glen “Big Baby” Davis has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for his role in a health care fraud scheme. Twenty-two people, 18 of them former NBA players, have been sentenced in the case, for filing false medical claims with the NBA Players’ Health and Benefit Welfare Plan. Davis led the Tigers to Final Four in 2006.

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The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs will host the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers this weekend which could decide the regular season Conference USA title. Regardless of this weekend’s outcome, LA Tech Head Coach Lane Burroughs says he’s proud of the season his team has put together, especially after they bounce back from getting swept by Arizona.
Cut 16 (15) “….up for.”
D-1 Baseball has Louisiana Tech in the NCAA Tournament based on a projection they released this week.

D-1 Baseball has the Ragin Cajuns as a two-seed in the NCAA Tournament. U-L Lafayette will look to stay in first place in the Sun Belt as they visit Georgia Southern.

High School baseball season has two days left, Tonight in Sulphur…top seeded South Beauregard will play second seeded Sterlington for the Division 3 non-select title.