FLASHBACK: Saturday and Sunday without Saints, Tigers or Wave? It’s not the first time

• October 14, 2020
• By Lenny Vangilder

How many, if any, times has the schedule had none of the three area teams scheduled to play over the course of the traditional 48-hour weekend?

Double Play, Offensive Response Sends Delgado to World Series

• May 18, 2014
• By Lenny Vangilder

A six-out sequence in the third and fourth innings turned Sunday’s South Central District championship game in the Dolphins’ favor.

1992 Olympic track trials made history, changed Tad Gormley, Sports Foundation

• June 30, 2012
• By Lenny Vangilder

It started with an innocent piece of mail to the mayor’s office.

Seawolves do what so many others couldn’t at ‘The Box’

• June 11, 2012
• By Lenny Vangilder

Take nothing away from the red-clad Seawolves from Long Island. They came into Baton Rouge and outplayed No. 7 national seed LSU this weekend, capped off by a 7-2 win in the third and deciding game of their super regional Sunday night.

New Orleans and March Madness: The Top 10 Games

• March 28, 2012
• By Lenny Vangilder

When your city has hosted the NCAA men’s basketball championship game four times previously, and those four games have been decided by a total of 11 points, you have a pretty good starting point on assembling a list of the greatest tournament games played in New Orleans.

A decade later, Tulane-LSU super regional still an amazing weekend

• June 10, 2011
• By Lenny Vangilder

It was ten years ago this month that Tulane and LSU faced off in a best-of-three super regional at Zephyr Field.

Louisiana goes 0-for-2011 in NCAA baseball

• May 30, 2011
• By Lenny Vangilder

You have to go all the way back to May 1976, when the Superdome was not even a year old and we were just learning about Jimmy Carter and disco.

Delgado’s potential Junior College World Series road comes at home

• May 12, 2011
• By Lenny Vangilder

 

The history of Delgado Community College’s baseball program has had its share of memorable moments. Few, if any, have occurred at its home ballpark.

Two men who paved one career path

• January 28, 2011
• By Lenny Vangilder

I often hear from others who marvel about the enjoyment that comes from working in, and writing about, sports. I’ve thought a lot in the past week about two of the people that helped lead me to that career path, generating emotions from one extreme to another.

End of an era: Superdome press box is moving

• January 22, 2010
• By Lenny Vangilder

Unless you’ve been in a cave, you know there’s a big football game Sunday evening. What you probably don’t know is that Sunday will mark the end of an era for an old friend of mine.