ESPN’s Pete Thamel reports the Sun Belt has invited Louisiana Tech into the Sun Belt. The Bulldogs will likely leave Conference USA after this athletic season and the departure from CUSA would cost Tech a reported five million dollars. This would be La Tech’s second stint in the Sun Belt. They were in that league from 1991 to 2001 before departing for the WAC.

A highly contagious and deadly disease that was believed to have been eliminated in the U.S. a quarter century ago is back with a vengeance. Colleen Crain reports.

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For the first time, the number of active registered Republican voters in Louisiana exceeds the number of active registered Democratic voters. John Couvillon (KOO-vee-ahn) with JMC Analytics and Polling, says when examining the total number of registered voters, Democrats still outnumber Republicans in the state. However, when you remove those who haven’t voted in the last two federal elections, that changes things.

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There are 958-thousand Republican active voters to 920-thousand active Democratic voters.

SEC Media Days are underway. Host of the Locked on SEC Podcast, Chris Gordy, says New Orleans native and Texas starting quarterback Arch Manning will be a big story this week in Atlanta…

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Manning speaks with reporters tomorrow.