Former Tigers head coach Ed Orgeron is returning as an assistant coach at LSU. Joe Gallinaro has the story.
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Hurricane season starts a week from Monday. What kind of season can we expect this year? Andrew Greenstein has some insight.
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After a four-year absence, United Airlines returns to Alexandria today. England Airpark Executive Director Ralph Hennessy says United is offering non-stop service to and from Houston.
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United had stopped service to Alexandria in 2022 due to an industry-wide pilot shortage coming out of the COVID pandemic. Hennessy says the resumption of twice-daily service to and from Bush Intercontinental Airport will be very convenient for business travelers.
Hennessy says the best part about flying out of a regional airport like AEX is you won’t have to arrive two hours before departure.
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The first flight from IAH arrives at around three this afternoon. It will be greeted with fanfare, including a water cannon salute.
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Ed Orgeron is back coaching at LSU again! Head coach Lane Kiffin has added the former Tigers head coach to his staff as the special assistant to recruiting and defense. WWL Radio Sports Talk show host and longtime friend of Orgeron, Mike Detillier, says Coach O has been wanting to return to LSU for several months.
The 64-year-old from LaRose was the head coach at LSU from 2016 to 2021 and put together one of the greatest college football teams ever in 2019, when the Tigers went 15-0 and won the national championship. But two years later, he was fired and has been out of coaching ever since. Detillier says Orgeron got the itch to coach again last fall.
Orgeron has been known as one of the best defensive line coaches in college football, and Detillier says Kiffin knows outstanding D-line play is critical to winning championships.
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This is will be the fourth time that Kiffin and Orgeron have been on the same staff together — twice at USC and once at Tennessee 2009. Orgeron’s base salary is 100-thousand dollars, and it runs through January 2027.
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A very disappointing 2026 LSU baseball season ended last night with a 3-1 loss to Auburn in the SEC Tournament. The Tigers were ranked in the top two nationally before the season, but they finish with just 10 wins in the SEC and out of the NCAA Tournament. Head Coach Jay Johnson says to say that it was a tough season is putting it very mildly.
Johnson says the loss is really hard on the 12 seniors on the team.
Johnson hopes the program grows from this difficult season.
When you include the two SEC Tournament games, the Tigers’ league record was 10-22. Overall, LSU finished with a record of 30-and-28 — one of the worst follow-up seasons ever to a national championship season. Two teams suffered losing seasons the season after winning it all, and both are from the SEC — Mississippi State in 2022 and Ole Miss in 2023.
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The National Weather Service is expecting a below-average hurricane season this year, with between eight and 14 named storms, including three to six hurricanes. NOAA Administrator Neil Jacobs says a certain weather pattern is the key factor behind this forecast.
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National Weather Service Director Ken Graham says history has proven that a below-average season prediction does not reduce the risk of a devastating storm ravaging the coast.
Jacobs says now is the time to start preparing for hurricane season, which starts a week from Monday.
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Last year, there were 13 named storms, including five hurricanes. No named storm made landfall in the United States.