LSU’s all-time leading rusher, Kevin Faulk, is once again on the College Football Hall of Fame Ballot. The 1999 graduate of LSU currently serves as the Tigers running backs coach. Faulk rushed for 4,557 yards and 46 touchdowns during his LSU career.
Louisiana Tech coaching legend Maxie Lambright is also on the 2021 College Football Hall of Fame Ballot. Lambright led the Bulldogs to three NCAA division two national titles, seven conference titles and he was the Southland Conference’s coach of the decade for the 1970s.
LSU football Coach Ed Orgeron said on a Baton Rouge radio station this morning that LSU pitcher Nick Storz is participating in the football team’s voluntary workout program. At six-foot-six, 282 pounds Strorz is getting a look at tight end.
Former LSU pitcher Cole Henry who was selected in the second round by the Washington Nationals says he will sign with the World Series champs.
Last week Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said he was 100-percent sure there would be a baseball season in 2020. But last night on ESPN, Manfred said he’s longer confident there will be a baseball season. Owners and players have failed to come to an agreement on a return to play proposal and talks broke down over the weekend. On social media, the players say they are disgusted with Major League Baseball leadership.
The WNBA will have a season and the professional women’s basketball league plans to begin a 22-game regular season in late July without fans in Florida. The WNBA will have its regular playoff format, which will end in October.
Ouachita Christian star Hunter Herring was a ULM baseball commitment, now he’s given a verbal pledge to the U-L Lafayette football program. He’s a six-foot-four, 205-pound quarterback for the Eagles and is coming off a season in which he threw for nearly 18-hundred yards and 27 touchdowns for O-C-S, who won the Division Four state championship last season.