LSU women’s basketball has a new assistant coach in a familiar face, as Hall of Famer Seimone Augustus is returning as an assistant coach. Mel Bridges has more.
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Target says it’s cutting prices on five-thousand items in its store. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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LSU women’s basketball announces Hall of Famer Seimone Augustus is joining the staff as an assistant coach. According to Patrick Wright, voice of the Lady Tigers, though Augustus is replacing Johnny Derrick due to his retirement, she is set to fill a much different role.
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Besides coming in with an impressive resume, both at LSU and in the WNBA, Wright says Augustus also has a hometown advantage.
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As a player at LSU, Augustus led the team to their first three Final Four appearances and was the first woman in school history to have her jersey retired. After 16 years in the WNBA and three Olympics appearances, Wright says Augustus is the perfect candidate for the role.
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This is Augustus’ second assistant coaching job after one season with the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA.
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The fate of a Constitutional Convention this fall is in the hands of the Senate as it awaits a hearing in Governmental Affairs after clearing the lower chamber. La Politics-dot-com publisher Jeremy Alford says there are many questions over Governor Jeff Landry’s appointment of delegates and how they could sway constitutional changes.
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Alford says there’s already been opposition from Senate leadership over the governor’s appointment of 27 delegates to the convention.
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Alford believes the debate over delegates will be significant if the bill advances to the Senate floor.
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The bill passed in the House on a 75 to 27 vote.
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Target announces its lowering prices on about five-thousand items in its store. UNO Business Professor Mark Rosa says Target is hoping the lower prices will result in more customers who end up buying more items….
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Target says they’ve already cut prices to 15-hundred items and plan to slash prices on hundreds household basic items like food, drinks, diapers and pet foods, which Rosa says this is the logical way to go.
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Earlier this year, Target reported its first annual decline in sales in seven years due to factors like inflation and a seedy economic outlook. However, Rosa says Target is proving they won’t just watch profits dip again.
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Target says the lower prices will start over summer on both national and in-house brands.
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The Ragin Cajuns softball season ended on Sunday with a four to three loss to the Baylor Bears. A disappointing end for a team that won 45 games this season. Brooke Ellestad couldn’t hold back the tears in the postgame press conference
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Southeastern Louisiana was also eliminated yesterday with a 12 to 2 loss to Alabama. But LSU is moving on to the Super Regionals after blanking Southern Illinois nine to nothing in five innings. Coach Beth Torina’s team will play at Stanford in a best out of three series starting on Friday
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