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Baseball may lose more than just fans if they do not play

With the latest play for power in Major League Baseball, America’s game is once again getting a giant black eye.

In the midst of chaos comes hope

The year started on a high with LSU winning the College Football Playoff National Championship in New Orleans. Then, a month or so later, the wheels fell off the proverbial wagon. A global pandemic hit and washed up on America’s shores.

The Match showed what sports would be without fans

For those of you who, like me, were itching to see what sports would be like without fans, the Champions for Charity golf match between Tiger Woods/Peyton Manning and Phil Mickelson/Tom Brady gave a good glimpse of that. (All right NASCAR fans, I hear you!!!

The Marks Post: A nanny state of affairs

In times of crisis like this, leaders step up to the plate to be a beacon of hope and to guide people through the troubling times. Governor John Bel Edwards, however, is not one of these leaders.

Good to be back, regardless of the state of sports

It’s good to be back!!! For those of you that were unaware, I have been on hiatus from the sports desk for the past month. The blame for that hiatus, COVID-19. No, I did not contract the virus, thank God!!!

The Marks Post: A typical day in Dogpatch

How’s your quarantine going? I thought this was a good time to share with you know how I was dealing with it. The only major difference from normal times is there is no daily Mass. So, instead, I still go sit in Sacred Heart and spend some time with our Lord.

The Marks Post: ‘Lazarus, come out’

Even though Masses have been cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak, I’ve still been keeping up with the daily readings. As I was reading them last week, I’ve noticed they seem very appropriate for the times we live in. They give us comfort in these trying times.

The Marks Post: Nailing racism to Calvary’s Cross

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 reads: There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens. A time to give birth, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build.

The Marks Post: Baseball at the Box

With two outs and a runner on base in the bottom of the 9th inning, Warren Morris blasts a home run over the right field wall to win the 1996 College World Series for LSU over Miami.

The Marks Post: When in Rome

Remember that scene from Major League where Bob Uecker is fist bumping the air back and forth while in the press box? Well, that’s how I was feeling on the inside Monday night while in the auxiliary press box of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.