The Pelicans won their first game of the season last night and they beat a good team too, knocking off Denver 122 to 107. Jahlil Okafor had a huge game with 26 points, Brandon Ingram added 25 points and Frank Jackson scored 21 points off the bench. The Pels shot 53-percent from the field.

In the NFL, the San Francisco 49ers remain the N-F-C’s lone unbeaten team as they held off Arizona last night 28-25. The Saints are one game back of San Fran for the top spot in the NFC. The two teams will meet December eighth in the Dome.

In college football, Baylor stays undefeated after a 17-14 win over West Virginia. But 20th ranked Appalachian State suffered its first loss as Georgia Southern defeated the Mountaineers for the second straight season as the Eagles flew into Boone, North Carolina and left with a 24-21 win.

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Here’s your college football schedule for Saturday, the Ragin Cajuns host Texas State, Arkansas State is at ULM. Northwestern State will be in Lake Charles to face McNeese. Southeastern Louisiana hosts Stephen F Austin, Nicholls is at U-I-W. Winless Texas Southern visits Grambling and Southern hosts Alabama A-and-M.

LSU and Louisiana Tech are both off.

But LSU and La Tech will play each other in an exhibition basketball game at 4:00 on Saturday in Ruston. Javonte Smart is the Tigers new point guard and Coach Will Wade expects the sophomore will do a good job, it just won’t be as pretty as it was with Tremont Waters running the offense
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