High school principals have voted for select and non-select playoffs in basketball, baseball and softball, just like what’s already in place for football. The vote took place today, the final day of the LHSAA convention. Many Principal Norman Booker says the split needed to be expanded, because private schools have an advantage in how they can enroll their students:
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The vote was 182-120 for the expanded split.

The statewide Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Campaign begins today and runs through Mardi Gras. Executive director of the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission, Lt. Col John Leblanc, says Fat Tuesday celebrations often involves alcohol, and they want to stress the alternatives to drunk driving:
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Increased patrols will be out during the campaign.

The LSU Board of Supervisors athletic committee approves changes to its statue rules that would allow a likeness of Pete Maravich to be errected on campus. Currently statues aren’t allowed of people who didn’t graduate from LSU. But Board member and Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle says it’s terrible that they actually have to debate this issue about the best basketball player ever play at LSU…:
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The policy would say instead of a degree, 100 credit hours would be required and Maravich would meet that. The matter still needs a full board approval.

A 12-year-old boy is under his arrest for his role in the death of an elderly nun. It’s reported that an incident occured in October where 87-year-old Sister Rosario O’Connell was helping the child with his homework, when he became enraged and slammd her into a wall which caused brain damage that could have killed her. O’Connell died this week.