11:40 LRN Sportscast January 17

There could be some Saints fans starting to get nervous about Sunday’s NFC Championship game against the Rams. Last week, New Orleans fell behind 14-0 before coming back to beat Philadelphia 20-14. Quarterback Drew Brees says a win like that gives them confidence they can pull out a victory when the tough gets going…
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Saints Wide receiver Keith Kirkwood and tight end Ben Watson missed practice yesterday. Kirkwood has a calf injury and Watson was under the weather. The Rams had zero players on their injury report.

Attorney General Jeff Landry says beware of ticket scams if you are trying to buy tickets for Sunday’s NFC Championship game. Landry says make sure the ticket seller belongs to the National Association of Ticket Brokers or has a guarantee policy. And he says if you have tickets…
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He says scalpers can steal the bar codes and create a counterfeit ticket.

If you stayed up to watch last night’s Pelicans game, you saw a record for the number of three pointers made in an NBA game. 43 of them went through the hoop in a Golden State victory. Stephen Curry hit nine 3-pointers and finished with 41 points in 147-140 victory for the defending champs.

Great crowd in Lake Charles last night to watch McNeese defeat Nicholls 86-75. There were 27-hundred fans inside the new Health and Human Performance Complex. McNeese improved to 2-3 in the Southland, Nicholls fell to 3-2.

Tonight, Louisiana Tech is at Old Dominion. The Bulldogs are looking for their first conference road win and they are only giving up 61 points a game in league contests. That leads Conference USA. Tip time is 6 PM.