Today begins SEC Media Days as LSU is one of three schools that will go before the hundreds of reporters that will jam the Hyatt Regency Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover, Alabama. Coach Ed Orgeron will be asked about his offense and you can expect a response like this…
cut 30 (14) “…this team”
Alabama is once again the preseason favorite to win the SEC West. Braden Gall covers college football for Athlon Sports and ESPN-U Radio and says LSU matches up better than it has with the Crimson Tide and he says Auburn is another team to watch in the always difficult SEC West…
cut 9 (10) “…who knows”

The Pelicans run in the summer league ended last night with an 88-86 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies in Las Vegas. Trevon Bluiett had 16 points, Nickeil Alexander-Walker and Marcos Louzada Silva each had 14 points. For the game, the Pels shot just 37-percent from the floor.

Memphis will go on to play Minnesota in the Summer League Championship game. The Timberwolves cut down the Nets 85-77 as former LSU Tiger Naz Reid had 20 points, six rebounds and three blocked shots.

Longtime Lincoln Parish sports reporter O-K Buddy Davis passed away over the weekend at the age of 72. La Tech athletics director Tommy McClelland says Buddy Davis put Louisiana Tech athletics on the map with his stories that he began writing over five decades ago. Davis also covered Eddie Robinson’s legendary football teams at Grambling State and received criticism for it, because he was a white man reporting on a historically black school.