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Kerry Joseph, former quarterback at McNeese State University, will enter the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame during next year’s induction ceremony. (Photo courtesy of LSHOF)

Kerry Joseph, former quarterback at McNeese State University, will enter the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame during next year’s induction ceremony. (Photo courtesy of LSHOF)

McNeese QB legend selected for induction into LSHOF

News Staff
Monday, October 9, 2023
By: MATTHEW BONNETTE Senior Associate AD for Athletic Communications McNeese State University LAKE CHARLES – Kerry Joseph, a McNeese quarterback legend and arguably the greatest play-caller to take snaps in the history of the Cowboy football program, has been selected as part of the Class of 2024...
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Breaking News

Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame announces 2024 induction class

News Staff
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
NATCHITOCHES – NFL record-setting passer and Super Bowl XLIV MVP Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints joins LSU women’s basketball great and eight-time WNBA All-Star Seimone Augustus along with mixed martial arts icon Daniel Cormier of Lafayette in a star-studded nine-member group of 2024...
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A writer’s pipedream of another 2007 in CFB

News Staff
Monday, September 18, 2023
We’re two weeks into the 2023 college football season and one thing seems obvious. As of now, it looks like one of those years where the landscape of the sport will do everything it can to turn itself on its head.
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McNeese on rise in Goff’s second season

News Staff
Monday, August 28, 2023
By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor When McNeese head coach Gary Goff took the job in December 2021, no one surrounding the program was expecting a meteoric rise following the aftermath of Hurricane Laura. And it wasn’t. McNeese struggled most of last season and finished with a 4-7 overall record.
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Loaded LSU sees bar raised in Kelly’s second year

News Staff
Monday, August 28, 2023
By: RHETT MANUEL Sports Editor LSU head coach Brian Kelly will do everything he can to tell you otherwise. But, make no mistake about it, there are sky-high expectations for Kelly’s Tigers as he enters his second season at the helm of the Bayou Bengals.
Former Ole Miss and New York Giant quarterback Eli Manning addresses the media during a press conference on the day before being inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches. (Photo by Chris Reich/ LSHOF)

Former Ole Miss and New York Giant quarterback Eli Manning addresses the media during a press conference on the day before being inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches. (Photo by Chris Reich/ LSHOF)

“Manning” the ship

News Staff
Thursday, August 3, 2023
By: TONY MARKS Editor NATCHITOCHES - In 1993, Isidore Newman School played in the state baseball championship game against Sacred Heart. Playing shortstop for Newman was Peyton Manning who committed an error which caused the Trojans to score the game winning run.
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Suspension of LSUE men’s hoops could hurt long-term

News Staff
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Talk about a bummer … In an era where scholarship opportunities are even more difficult to come by for high school student-athletes, it recently got harder for male basketball athletes in the state of Louisiana.
This picture of Devin Fontenot (28) cheering on the LSU Tigers from the dugout during a game against Southern Miss in the 2022 Hattiesburg Regional earned Ville Platte Gazette editor Tony Marks an honorable mention award for College-Pro Photography in the Louisiana Sports Writers Association Annual Contest. (LSN photo by Tony Marks)

This picture of Devin Fontenot (28) cheering on the LSU Tigers from the dugout during a game against Southern Miss in the 2022 Hattiesburg Regional earned Ville Platte Gazette editor Tony Marks an honorable mention award for College-Pro Photography in the Louisiana Sports Writers Association Annual Contest. (LSN photo by Tony Marks)

Partsch, Marks take home LSWA Award honors

News Staff
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Staff Report The Kinder Courier News took home Class II sweepstakes honors while Louisiana State Newspapers reporters Raymond Partsch III and Tony Marks took home multiple honors at the Louisiana Sports Writers Association’s Award Luncheon held Sunday in Natchitoches.
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Kelly’s LSU, for better or worse, has had the bar upped in 2023

News Staff
Monday, July 24, 2023
Well, it’s that time of the year again. With SEC Media Days behind us, let the hype train begin and let football season wash over us once more. Yes, I know it’s still 105 degrees outside at 7 p.m. and you have to figure out how you’re going to cut your grass in this nonsense.
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