LSU and the Saints both have tough games on the road this weekend. Jeff Palermo has a preview…
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As the Renaissance Festival continues in Hammond this weekend, Andrew Greenstein tells you of one performance that you definitely should never try at home.
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Enjoy the mild weather this weekend; we’re going to be in for a rude awakening Monday morning. When we wake up Monday morning, temperatures will be in the upper 30s in the northern parishes and in the 40s closer to the coast. And Chanelle Stigger, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service out of Lake Charles, says temperatures will stay cool all day long.
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And if you think Monday morning will be cold, Stigger says it’s going to be even colder Tuesday morning, with the possibility of temperatures dipping below freezing in some areas.
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If you think that weather is unusual for Louisiana, especially for this time of year, Stigger says you’re absolutely right.
But if you can survive those two mornings, temperatures will begin their climb back to normal during the day Tuesday, returning to the 70s by the middle of the week.
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The 1-and-8 Saints are back on the road this Sunday to face an improving Carolina Panthers team that just beat the Packers in Green Bay. Rookie Tyler Shough will start again at quarterback for the Saints and defensive end Cameron Jordan says the Black and Gold’s defense has to set the tone
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Kick off on Sunday is at noon.
LSU looks to upset fourth ranked Alabama on Saturday night. Cornerback Mansoor Delane (MAHN-soor duh-LANE) is eager to face one of the best passing offenses in the country…
LSU is a 10.5 point underdog to Alabama on Saturday night. Tiger Rag Executive Editor Todd Horne has this prediction…
Kick off is at 6:30.
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This may be a lost season for the LSU football team, but it’s a memorable one for a certain freshman on the marching band. After retiring as an accountant, 66-year-old Kent Broussard pursued – and fulfilled – his lifelong dream of playing in the LSU marching band. Broussard appeared on the Kelly Clarkson Show this week and said he was nearly a half-century out of practice when he hatched his plan to join the LSU marching band.
So now that he had his Sousaphone and was practicing, he had to apply for admission like anyone else, most of whom are high school seniors. And when he made it through the tedious admissions process, he had to submit a YouTube video just to be invited to preseason camp.
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Broussard says all 12 freshman Sousaphone players, including himself, made the team – and after the rest of the Sousaphonists and drummers celebrated with him, it was time to tell his family.
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Broussard and the rest of the Golden Band from Tigerland will be in Tuscaloosa as the Tigers take on the Crimson Tide Saturday night.
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The Louisiana Renaissance Festival continues this weekend in Hammond; and this weekend, fairgoers are in for a very special – and death-defying – performance from Cy the Sword Swallower. Cyrus Penn says he got the inspiration to take up sword swallowing when he needed something to do with his life upon graduating from college with a theater arts degree.
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Penn says it should go without saying that his performance is something that no one should even think of trying at home!
Penn says every swallow of the sword has to be done with the utmost of precision – one false move could be the difference between life and death.
The fair is open Saturdays and Sundays from 9:45 until five through December 7th.