Two of the biggest names in sports, Peyton Manning and Les Miles, are among the eleven that will be inducted tomorrow night into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches. Former LSU baseball coach and A-D Skip Bertman hired Miles after Nick Saban left for the Miami Dolphins…
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Miles won 77-percent of his games while at LSU, including a national championship in 2007. Manning led the Colts and Broncos to Super Bowl victories and goes down as one of the NFL’s All-time greats.

Also going into the Hall of Fame, Peabody basketball coach Charles Smith, former Southern Baseball Coach Roger Cador, former Louisiana Tech Q-B and Canadian Football League Hall of Famer Matt Dunigan and Max Fugler, an all-American on LSU’s 1958 national championship football team. He played center, linebacker and special teams.

Super Regional action in college baseball gets underway today. Here are the four series that start today, Louisville versus East Carolina, Vanderbilt hosts Duke, Oklahoma State is at Texas Tech and tonight Michigan will take on UCLA in Los Angeles.

LSU’s super regional series with Florida State begins tomorrow at 2 PM. The Tigers will announce later today, who will be the game one starter on the mound.

The state legislature did not come through for Louisiana residents who were looking to play online fantasy sports contests for cash prizes. Despite public approval in 47 parishes last November, lawmakers did not pass a tax structure for the activity to take place in Louisiana. Also, Louisiana will remain on the sidelines when it comes to legalized sports betting. That bill didn’t make it through the process before the legislature adjourned for 2019 last night.

Game 4 of the NBA Finals is tonight. The Warriors, who are down two games to one to the Raptors, say Kevin Durant will not play, but Klay Thompson will return from a hamstring injury.