Shreveport is getting a new pickleball park; but as Andrew Greenstein reports, this won’t be just any pickleball park.
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Australian based Woodside Energy will be a major employer for southwest Louisiana for decades to come. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Wednesday marks another 20th anniversary of a hurricane that devastated Louisiana. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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A new pickleball park is coming in southeastern Caddo Parish. Stacey Brown, the executive director of Visit Shreveport-Bossier, says pickleball is very popular in the area, and the new park is designed to attract pickleball tournaments.
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Brown says even before construction starts, organizations are already making travel plans to Shreveport to hold pickleball tournaments.
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Brown says the pickleball park will be designed to be able to host large-scale tournaments.
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The project is not without controversy – several residents spoke out against it, and three of the nine commissioners voted against it. But Brown says with the tourism dollars that will come with this pickleball park, it will pay for itself.
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Australian-based Woodside Energy says it wants to be an outstanding community partner as it builds a 17-point-five billion dollar liquefied natural gas facility in Calcasieu Parish near Sulphur. Chief Operating Officer Daniel Kalms says Louisiana L-N-G will be a huge contributor to U-S L-N-G exports, which will strengthen global energy security and generate billions of dollars in local and national revenues…
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Construction is already underway. The project calls for the construction of three LNG trains with the first one scheduled to be completed in 2029. Kalms says they already have nine-hundred people working at the site and the construction workforce will grow to 44-hundred. He says they are also working with local contractors…
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Woodside Energy made its final investment decision last April. It’s their first L-N-G plant in America and it will Louisiana’s fifth operating L-N-G facility. Demand for U-S natural from Europe and Asia has grown since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Kalms says they expect global demand for LNG to grow and southwest Louisiana is the place to produce it…
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Wednesday marks the 20th anniversary of another devastating hurricane – Hurricane Rita. The storm reached the maximum intensity of Category Five before weakening to Category Three when it made landfall in Johnson’s Bayou, near the Texas border, on September 24th, 2005. J.C. Falcon was an air personality on KTDY-FM in Lafayette at the time – he says two of his brothers had major water damage in their homes.
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Falcon says the one thing that made him realize how bad of a storm Rita was, was what he saw eight miles in from Vermilion Bay.
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Falcon says while many people, including his brothers, were determined to stay in the area because that’s their home, others ended up moving out permanently. As such, some areas have never recovered.
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The outcome of the game was never in doubt – as expected, LSU crushed Southeastern Louisiana, 56-10, at Tiger Stadium Saturday night. LSU made it look easy – they scored touchdowns on eight straight possessions. Along the way, LSU went for it on fourth down three times and converted on all of them. After the game, Head Coach Brian Kelly said that’s something they wanted to work on, with the meat of the SEC schedule looming.
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Of course, the biggest storyline going into the game was the health of quarterback Garrett Nussmeier, who had been battling a torso injury suffered during preseason camp. Nussmeier, who went 25 for 31 for 273 yards and three touchdowns, was very evasive when asked about his injury after the game.
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But Kelly said for all intents and purposes, Nussmeier is 100-percent healthy.
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LSU turned in another stellar defensive performance, giving up only 204 yards in total offense and one touchdown on a 14-yard pass in the third quarter. LSU has given up four touchdowns all season long – one in each game. Linebacker Whit Weeks says watch out – the defense still hasn’t played to its full potential yet.
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LSU’s next game is next Saturday afternoon on the road at Ole Miss. Kickoff is at 2:30; and unless you’re planning on schlepping to Oxford, you can watch the game on ABC.
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The Saints first road trip was a disaster as New Orleans fell behind 21-0 in the first quarter and went on to lose 44-13 to Seattle. The Seahawks scored on all of their drives through the first three quarters and Seattle also scored a touchdown on a punt return and a blocked punt set up another score. Coach Kellen Moore says they never game themselves a chance…
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New Orleans is 0-3 for the first time since 2016 and they are at Buffalo on Sunday.
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Louisiana Tech is 3-and-1 for the first time since 2019 after beating rival Southern Miss 30-20. Bulldogs tight end Eli Finley had a career high 155 yards receiving, and Kolbe Fields returned an interception for a touchdown. Coach Sonny Cumbie discussed both players, beginning with Finley…
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Tech will visit UTEP on Saturday night.
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ULM improved to 2-and-1 on the season with a road win at UTEP 31-25. The Warhawks led 31-7 in the third quarter and needed two interceptions in the fourth quarter to secure the victory. Coach Bryant Vincent frustrated his guys let the Miners back in the game…
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The Warhawks rushed for 250 yards and held UTEP 33 yards on the ground. Braylon McReynolds rushed for 107 yards and a touchdown. Vincent says it’s a good sign for the direction of the program to get a road win like this one…
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ULM hosts Arkansas State this Saturday for homecoming in the Sun Belt opener.