The Pelicans hope to take a four-game winning streak into the All Star Break as they host Oklahoma City tonight. The Thunder have won seven straight on the road. Pels All-Star Brandon Ingram is questionable with an ankle sprain that has kept him from playing the last two games.

The Astros opened spring training today by apologizing for stealing signs during their 2017 World Series championship season. A couple of players read prepared statements, including former LSU Tiger Alex Bregman…
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Jose Altuve also spoke, but the players did not take any questions.

The Union Parish School Board is investigating an incident took place last month between Union Parish head football coach Joe Spatafor and Ruston head football coach Jerrod Baugh. Spatafora allegedly threatened and made some racially insensitive statements towards Baugh during a heated argument at a Baton Rouge bar after the first day of the LHSAA convention.

Louisiana Tech will try to snap a two-game losing streak tonight when they host F-I-U. The Panthers have won three in a row and Bulldogs Coach Eric Konkol says F-I-U is playing well under second-year head coach Jeremy Ballard…
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The tip-off is at 6:30.

At six o’ clock in Troy, the Trojans host struggling ULM. The Warhawks have lost ten straight and also ten straight on the road.

The Ragin Cajuns are at South Alabama tonight. U-L Lafayette is tied with Troy for 10th place in the Sun Belt.

The Caddo Parish Sheriff’s office has charged a Lafayette man with theft for overcharging a buyer for tickets to last month’s College Football National Championship game. Deputies say a victim from Shreveport thought he bought a pair of tickets in section 104 from Michael Dean Simmons at cost of 36-hundred dollars. But it turns out the seats were actually in the nose bleed and Simmons finally turned himself in yesterday.