LSU football coach Ed Orgeron will be in West Monroe tonight at the Walk On’s Restaurant for the Tiger Athletic Foundation’s Coaches Caravan Tour. Coach O was in Shreveport last night and said his team will need to block out the noise like they did last year. Orgeron says last year it was negative noise, this year it will be positive noise, because the expectations are higher coming off a 10-win season…
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Oregeron says the plan right now is for Michael Divinity to play inside linebacker, after he tied for the team lead in sacks with five while playing outside linebacker. LSU is looking for experience at inside linebacker, because of the loss of Devin White.

On the baseball diamond tonight, LSU hosts Louisiana Tech at Alex Box Stadium. The Tigers are 30-18 and Tiger Rag Editor James Moran says LSU is a bubble team to host an NCAA Regional….
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The Tigers have won 12 straight over La Tech, while the Bulldogs have lost seven of their last eight overall. First pitch is at 6:30.

Also tonight, Southeastern hosts South Alabama, Nicholls is at Tulane, while Southern visits UNO in a game that will be televised by CST at 6:30.

The LSU men’s basketball program is planning to visit Spain in August. The NCAA allows schools to take one foreign trip every four years and LSU’s last out of country trip was in 2015 in Australia.