Sports

New direction

MAMOU -- The last five years have not been kind to the Mamou Demon football team. During that span, the Demons are 3-47 and have not sniffed the playoffs. However, 2018 brings with it new hope and new leadership.

No more three’s

PINE PRAIRIE -- According to School House Rocks, three is a magic number. Over the last five years, it seems as if the Pine Prairie football program has taken that phrase to heart. Since 2013, the Panthers have won three games each and every gridiron campaign.

Confidence first

VILLE PLATTE -- Confidence is a funny thing. If you have it, things just seem to fall into place. If you lack it, troubles seem to follow and stack upon one another like the bricks in a wall.

Vermilion colored glasses

Much like at other places around the state, the Ragin’ Cajuns of UL-Lafayette are engulfed in a quarterback battle.

A savage hill to climb

The 2018 New Orleans Saints have penciled in a return trip to Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium for Super Bowl LIII, but, to get there, the team will have to get through a schedule that features the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.

Rounding up a title

As he enters his senior year as quarterback of McNeese State University, senior James Tabary was listed as one of 36 athletes on the 2018 College Football Performance Awards Watch List for the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision.

Trolling along

Like any good shrimp boat captain down the bayou in his native Larose, second year head coach at LSU Ed Orgeron knows what it is like to troll through uncertain waters.

Changing schemes

VILLE PLATTE – They say that one man does not make a team. Although that sentiment may be true, losing a key piece to a puzzle that has been in the making for the last four years can truly put a kink in completing the job at hand.

Lessons carried on

MAMOU – The more lessons we learn throughout our lifetime, the better off we are. Even more so, if we can take those lessons and apply them to situations we find ourselves in at the moment gives us a chance to create teachable moments.

Evangeline Parish football teams get ready for jamboree

It is that time of the year again where football coaches around the state begin to find out who on their team is ready to play and who is not quite up to getting on the field just yet. It is also the time where schemes are evaluated and staffs tweak their playbooks for the regular season opener.