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College Sports Just Needs to Stop Letting Former Pros Back In
LSU's decision to sign former professional athletes RJ Luis and Dae’Quan Wright highlights why college sports needs clearer eligibility rules....
Jayden Daniels Needs to Focus on Commanders, Not LSU’s No. 5 Jersey
Jayden Daniels is reportedly taking legal action against LSU over his former No. 5 jersey, but the quarterback has bigger things to worry about....
Sam Leavitt Faces Massive Expectations at LSU
LSU landed Sam Leavitt as Lane Kiffin’s biggest offseason addition, but questions remain about his health, talent and massive expectations....
Five Programs Set to Make Major Strides in the 2026 College Football Season
LSU leads a list of college football programs positioned for major improvement in 2026, alongside Auburn, UCLA, Wisconsin and Boise State....
Inside Lane Kiffin’s Chaotic Exit: Ole Miss Fallout and LSU’s Bold Hire
From postponed team meetings to staff pressure, Lane Kiffin’s move to LSU turned ugly fast. Ole Miss now heads into its first CFP without its head coach....
How Brian Kelly’s Former Notre Dame Assistants Helped End His LSU Tenure
Clark Lea’s Vanderbilt and Mike Elko’s Texas A&M delivered crushing losses that pushed LSU to fire Brian Kelly amid a $52.4 million buyout....
LSU’s Playoff Hopes Rest on Fixing Run Game Despite Top-3 Ranking
LSU’s defense looks championship-ready, but Brian Kelly’s Tigers must fix their run game and offensive struggles to stay in the College Football Playoff race....
The natives are getting restless at Ohio State and LSU
There’s natural staff turnover — primarily assistants getting poached for better opportunities elsewhere — and then there’s what Ohio State and LSU are purportedly doing. Each head coach is under pressure to make changes after showings not up to program standards, and if history is an indication of ...
Stop hating on the NCAA for being spineless
Criticizing the NCAA is the lowest of low-hanging fruit. You can essentially pick the apples up off the ground, and have a roiling take. The latest punishments, or lack thereof, handed down to LSU football and men’s basketball last week were predictably lax and anything but a hindrance for schools t...
U mad? The women's game will glory in your outrage
This NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship game had everything; insane outside shooting, a pink-sequined pantsuit, trash-talk that got personal, a record-setting final score, nanny-state officiating, an Iowan breaking the tournament all-time scoring record, and Billie Jean King....
Should Brian Kelly have to give $1 million back to LSU over a clerical mistake?
Louisiana State University (LSU) reset the college football coaching market in 2021 when they signed former Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly to a 10-year, $95 million contract. Kelly responded by winning 10 games in his first season in Baton Rouge highlighted by a home win over Alabama and an appea...
The top 6 teams have a nerve-wracking path to the CFP — minus Georgia
There are many reasons to be envious of fans with teams in contention for the College Football Playoff, but the most relevant to this weekend is the mental and physical energy expended to get to the end of the regular season tightrope will be enough to work off those Turkey Day calories. While the r...
LSU put up quite the deterrent to make sure the Tennessee goal post saga wouldn’t happen in Baton Rouge
Since Nick Saban turned Alabama into an assembly line of NFL talent, defeating his program has become a championship in and of itself. A victory that results in SEC programs forking over large sums of money for being in violation of the conference rule that prohibits student sections from rushing th...
We were foolish to think any SEC game could steal the show from Alabama-LSU
While Saturday’s Georgia-Tennessee game was the biggest contest in the history of that matchup and the de facto headliner for Week 10, it was the SEC rivalry that has defined the conference for most of this century that once again stole the limelight. In his first time helming LSU against Alabama, c...
College football Week 8: It’s hard to stop chasing the dragon after last week
Expecting the college football gods to give us a second helping of last week’s madness is asking a lot. Four undefeated Top-10 schools fell, and three different crowds rushed the field, with the Vols starting a GoFundMe-type deal for their goalposts that were dumped into the Tennessee River....
Beat writer claps back at Brian Kelly
All is well in Baton Rouge. First-year LSU head coach Brian Kelly became the first Tigers’ leader to lose his inaugural game at the helm since Gerry DiNardo in 1995, who helped LSU to momentary failure against then-No. 3 Texas A&M. Kelly’s troops lost to an inconsistent Florida State team in their h...
Can we please get an LS-U <em>30 for 30</em> already?
It’s hard to quantify what makes a thing charismatic. I recently went to New Orleans for the first time, and before I arrived, I was a little skeptical because often when people can’t shut up about how great something is, the expectation is set so high that anything but perfection is going to be a l...
The entire LSU basketball team is gone
Sanctions are coming, Will Wade is gone, and the Tigers aren’t sticking around to find out what it looks like. LSU basketball might not be receiving the death penalty from the NCAA for their former coach’s infractions, but the team itself has sent the program into a virtual death spiral....