LSU will welcome Southern University to Tiger Stadium in 2022 and Grambling will play the Bayou Bengals in front of 100-thousand fans in 2023. It will be the first time LSU has faced either school in football.

The games mean Southern and Grambling will receive big paychecks to play LSU in football. LSU executive deputy athletics director Verge Ausberry says if they are playing an F-C-S school, they’d like it to be an in-state foe, especially Southern and Grambling who have great traditions
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And in other news involving the SWAC, Florida A-and-M is reportedly looking at leaving the MEAC to join the SWAC.

Saints and Pelicans Owner Gayle Benson announces the formation of a Social Justice Leadership Coalition. Players from the two professional franchises will be on the task force. Saints linebacker Demario Davis, along with Pelicans guards Lonzo Ball and J-J Redick will be on it, but Benson says anyone can join. She says we have a lot of work to create meaningful change.

Just over a year ago Louisiana Tech’s baseball stadium was destroyed by an E-F three tornado. But next year, Tech will host the Conference USA Baseball championship tournament at a rebuilt J-C Love Field at Patterson Park next year. It will mark the first Conference USA championship that La Tech has hosted since it joined the league in 2013.

In other Conference USA news, the Stadium’s Brett McMurphy reports the field for the Conference USA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments next year will be dropped from 12 to eight teams.