The Super Bowl is bringing people from around the world to New Orleans and the state is using this opportunity to show Louisiana’s rise as a global business leader. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Flag football will be an Olympic Sport in 2028 and may soon be a sanctioned Louisiana high school girl’s sport. Colleen Crain explains…
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One Louisiana high school coach will be watching the Super Bowl with great interest. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The state is using the Super Bowl as an opportunity to pitch Louisiana as a great place to do business. The Louisiana Now Pavilion opens today, next to the Super Bowl Media Center in New Orleans. State Economic Development Secretary Susan Bourgeois says Louisiana Now showcases the state’s economic strengths, culture and business potential…
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The Pavilion will host business executives, athletes, dignitaries and artists from around the world. Bourgeois says Louisiana Now will provide visitors with compelling stories about Louisiana’s economic strength and that includes Meta building a ten-billion-dollar A-I data center in Richland Parish…
Bourgeois says Louisiana Now will have interactive exhibits…
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A new report from Bankrate found that 45% of Americans applied for a loan or financial product in the past year, and 48% of those seeking a loan were rejected, with 14% experiencing multiple denials. Bankrate analyst Sarah Foster says Americans with lower credit scores were more likely to be denied for a loan or financial product…
Foster says lower-income households, Gen Z, millennials, and parents with young children are most affected.
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Foster says one of the best course of actions to take is request a free credit report to look back at your credit score and look at specific factors that would impact your rating as well as…
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The LHSAA and the Saints are working towards sanctioning girls flag football as a high school sport. Louisiana High School Coaches Association Director Eric Held says the interest is there…
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At least 80 schools needed to express interest per LHSAA bylaws in order for a formal vote to take place to finalize the approval of girls flag football as a sanctioned sport. Held says the association’s executive committee is expected to finalize approval at its April meeting.
Held says before an actual high school girls flag football season can take place, a pilot league needs takes to place first. But he says they have a head start as the Saints organization launched a ten-team girls flag football league for ten high schools in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes…
Flag football will officially be included in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games program.
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Many people in the Tangipahoa Parish town of Amite are rooting for local hero DeVonta Smith and the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl. Zephaniah Powell coached Smith at Amite (ay-MEET) High School. Coach Powell says the Eagles leading receiver keeps making plays despite his six-foot, 170-pound frame…
Powell says Smith has earned everything he’s got, including the Heisman Trophy he won at Alabama in 2020.
Smith was on the Eagles team that fell to the Chiefs two years ago. Powell says Smith and his teammates now have an opportunity to exact revenge and win a title of their own.
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In case you’re wondering – Powell will not be hitting his former star receiver up for Super Bowl tickets.
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Eagles Offensive Coordinator Kellen Moore flew out to New Orleans with the rest of the team over the weekend for Sunday’s Super Bowl. He might not need his return flight. That’s because the 36-year-old is widely considered to be the frontrunner to be the new head coach of the Saints. The Saints have interviewed Moore once and will meet with him after the Super Bowl. Moore said despite the Super Bowl being on the Saints’ home field this year, he’s not thinking about the Saints this week.
That said, Moore said becoming a head coach in the NFL would be the opportunity of a lifetime.
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Moore spent six seasons as a backup quarterback – three with the Lions and three with the Cowboys. Following one season as the Cowboys’ quarterbacks coach, he has spent the last six seasons as an offensive coordinator – four with the Cowboys and one each with the Chargers and Eagles.
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Saints fans may be wondering why their team couldn’t get a player like linebacker Zack Baun. Well, actually, they did have him for four seasons, during which he primarily played on special teams. Baun joined the Eagles this off-season and proceeded to make the Pro Bowl and is a finalist for Defensive Player of the Year after registering 151 tackles, five forced fumbles and one fumble recovery. Baun says many players helped him be the dominant force that he was this season.
Baun says it’s surreal to be playing on the biggest stage in American sports – on the same field where he played his first four seasons at that.