The man who single-handedly transformed LSU baseball into a national powerhouse has died. Skip Bertman passed away early Friday morning at the age of 88. Former LSU pitcher Ben McDonald says he didn’t appreciate Bertman’s greatness as an 18-year-old, but he does now.
Bertman’s reign as LSU baseball coach began in 1986 and lasted 18 seasons. He holds the highest winning percentage in SEC history and was a six-time national coach of the year. Tiger Rag Editor and the author of Bertman’s biography, Glenn Guilbeau, says it’s been 25 years since Bertman coached a game, but he’s still revered by college baseball fans.
This could be the hottest weekend of the summer. LSU Health Climatologist Barry Keim says an area of high pressure in the Gulf of Mexico will drive up temperatures and humidity levels.
And when you add those high temperatures and those humidity levels, those are going to yield some outrageous heat indexes which are going to linger for days with no relief in sight.
Louisiana’s new N-I-L and athlete agents website is live. Attorney General Liz Murrill says it’s the most significant regulation included in Act 895. That’s the new law that extended existing athlete agent oversight to N-I-L agents and gave student-athletes the power to sue agents for damages, attorney fees and other compensation.
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Murrill says lawmakers collaborated with the LHSAA and its member schools in crafting the new law.