The college baseball season is at the halfway point. The Fighting Tigers have an RPI of 81 and they’ll host Nicholls tonight. 21st ranked LSU is 18-and-11 on the season and Coach Paul Mainieri says they need to take midweek games seriously….
cut 18 (14) “…weekend series”
The Colonels bring a 9-and-18 record to the Box tonight. But they are playing much better after losing 10 of their first 11 games.

Louisiana Tech is ranked 22nd in the Division One poll. The Bulldogs were scheduled to play Grambling State tonight, but that game has been postponed because of the weather forecast tonight. Tech will be in action again tomorrow at home against Little Rock.

A senate committee has approved a bill that would legalize sports gambling in Louisiana. The measure would allow gamblers to make sports bets at existing gaming facilities, including restaurants and bars that have video poker machines. The legislation could be sent to Senate Finance, because of the costs associated with regulating it.