This weekend is the Major League Baseball draft, and two former LSU stars will hear their names called on Saturday. Center fielder Derek Curiel is expected to be a Top 15 pick, while right fielder Jake Brown could go as early as the second-round. Brown says he has fully recovered from the broken hamate bone in his wrist that he suffered in April…
Cut 17 (15) “…feeling great”
Brown will spend draft day with family and friends in his hometown of Sulphur.
LSU’s biggest donors have been invited to the governor’s mansion in early August to hear a presentation about an alternative revenue generating opportunity for athletics. Tiger Athletic Foundation President Matt Borman says this alternative revenue source could change the future of college sports.
The Lafayette D-A’s Office is investigating reports of a UL Lafayette football recruiter who misused a university credit card to pay for over five-thousand-dollars worth of unallowed alcohol and food costs. The recruiter allegedly submitted false documents to get paid for the costs. A state auditor says there were other incidents totaling over 75-thousand dollars.
Louisiana fishermen, charter captains and conservation organizations are disappointed Governor Landry vetoed a bill that would have designated the Atlantic tarpon as a saltwater game fish. Landry called the legislation a solution in search of a problem. But Rick Owens with the Louisiana Wildlife Federation says the legislation would have placed tarpon within the same general management framework as other recreational species, including red drum, speckled trout, and black bass.