The Southeastern Conference is threatening to boot LSU out of the league for attempting to roster players who were on NFL rosters last month. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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A routine trip to the grocery store for two elderly women in Acadia Parish turns into a harrowing experience. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Bill Cassidy has less than four months remaining in the U.S. Senate, and he’s using that time to push his plan to ensure Social Security remains solvent. He outlined his plan in an appearance on NewsNation.
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Cassidy said all risk would be borne by the investment fund, and that would pay 65-percent of the unfunded accrued liability of Social Security.
Cassidy tells NewsNation the first step in solving the issue is actually being allowed to put the proposals before Congress.
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In an appearance on NewsNation, Cassidy accused his colleagues in the Senate of sitting on this issue and not taking it seriously.
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Many are mourning the death of longtime sports radio host Mike Detillier, who passed away on Sunday at 65 from a brief bout with pancreatic cancer. His longtime radio partner on WWL Radio, former Saints quarterback Bobby Hebert, says Detillier was well respected for his football opinion and more importantly he was very kind…
Detillier’s spent 40-plus years of his life as a pro and college football analyst on WWL. His M-and-D draft report was staple for any football fan as it was 200 pages, filled with in-depth profiles of the players. Hebert says you better pack a lunch if you were going to talk football with Detillier…
Hebert and Detillier hosted the popular second guess show on WWL radio on Monday nights during the football season for two decades. Hebert says he can’t believe Mike D is gone…
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The SEC has amended its federal lawsuit against LSU, seeking the authority to expel the school from the conference. SEC CEOs are scheduled to meet Thursday to decide whether to terminate LSU as a member institution. Tiger Rag Editor Glenn Guilbeau says he thinks cooler heads will prevail before Thursday.
Guilbeau pointed out that LSU never actually broke the SEC’s rule and other schools are still in the conference after actual violations.
The federal lawsuit was filed last week in northern Alabama, alleging that LSU’s recruitment of Dae’Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris, who both signed NFL contracts this summer, violated the SEC’s First Amendment right to govern itself. The players did win a preliminary injunction to return without penalties, but LSU did not list them on its roster for the Clemson game, per the SEC’s rule. LSU Athletic Director Verge Ausberry told Guaranty Media in an interview before the injunction ruling that the program has no intention of breaking SEC rules.
Attorney General Liz Murrill and LSU’s entire board of supervisors were added as defendants in the lawsuit alongside Ausberry, president Wade Rousse and football coach Lane Kiffin. Murrill filed an amicus brief supporting the athletes’ return in the preliminary injunction hearing last week but says she has no idea what claim they could be making against her or her office.
Guilbeau says numerous programs have violated SEC bylaws over the years and not been expelled. He says last year Alabama basketball welcomed back center Charles Bediako for five games after he played 83 games in the G League.
Bediako was allowed to play in a ruling by an Alabama judge who then reversed the ruling. The SEC’s punishments for schools who roster ex-pros were not yet in place.
A two-thirds vote is required to remove LSU from the conference.
The SEC says today’s filing is necessary to defend that right and preserve the Conference’s ability to govern competition among its members.