Following Sunday’s disappointing loss to the Bengals, second-year safety Kenny Vaccaro talked about how the team is struggling without the veteran leadership once supplied by the now departed Malcolm Jenkins, Roman Harper and Jonathan Vilma. Coach Sean Payton says he had no problem with what Vaccaro said…
cut 17 (19) “….to him”
The Saints next game is Monday against Baltimore.

Last night former LSU Tiger Zach Mettenberger threw for 263 yards, two touchdowns and an interception, but it wasn’t enough as Pittsburgh rallied to beat Tennessee 27-24.

In the NBA…The Pelicans blew a 16-point third quarter lead and lost to Portland 102-93.

The Louisiana Tech men’s basketball team gave up 48 points in the 2nd half last night and lost to Temple 85-72. The Owls did a lot of their damage from the free thow line where they were 34 of 49. Raheem Appleby had 26 points to lead Tech and the only other double-digit scorer for the Bulldogs was Erik McCree, who had 14 points.

Elsewhere last night…Northwestern State beat Lyon College 75-64. Nicholls State lost its season opener at North Texas, falling by the score of 71-57. ULM walloped Champion Baptist 106-39 and the Ragin Cajuns fell to Tulsa 64 to 53. Shawn Long had 15 points and four rebounds for U-L-L. He now has 700 rebounds in his college career.

And there are reports that U-L Lafayette defensive backs coach Tim Rebowe will be named the new head football coach at Nicholls State. Rebowe spent time with the Nicholls program in the late 1990s and filled several different roles.