Alana Beard’s dynamic impact at every level makes her elite figure in state hoops history
Once offered a live goat in appreciation of her basketball prowess, Alana Beard was a generational athlete who won nearly every award imaginable for a women’s basketball player.
view moreTigers, Ragin’ Cajuns, Warhawks claim seven of top eight individual honors on All-Louisiana golf teams
Members on the 15-player team were nominated and selected by the state’s golf athletics communications directors.
view moreReluctantly backing away from basketball led LSU’s Walter Davis to the world stage
Looking back on the totality of his track and field career, it seems nearly impossible to think that it almost didn’t happen for two-time U.S. Olympian Walter Davis.
view moreLouisiana High School Coaches Association Coaches Clinic this week to spotlight variety of topics
A summer tradition returns to Baton Rouge this week when the LHSCA The Louisiana High School Coaches Association Coaches Clinic begins Monday
view moreFamily establishes Jack Brittain Jr. Memorial Scholarship
The family of N-Club Hall of Fame Distinguished Service Award winner Jack Brittain Jr. has established a scholarship in memory of the former Demon football player and Natchitoches legend.
view moreM.L. Woodruff didn’t plan on being a coach, but quickly became one of the game’s best
Many things about M.L. Woodruff’s life paint the picture of an old-school baseball coach. Still, nothing fueled a desire to coach within him. A major life change did.
view moreLSU’s Paul Byrd didn’t look or act the part of an ace pitcher, until he took the mound
It’s late summer 1988, and the latest crop of freshmen were stepping onto the LSU campus. A handful among them had elected to spend most of their next few years inside Alex Box Stadium.
view moreN-Club Hall of Famer Brittain leaves behind legacy of service, smiles
Football games. Volleyball and tennis matches. Athletic department fundraisers. Functions throughout the city of Natchitoches. Those were places Jack Brittain Jr. was likely to be found – and more likely to have left a lasting impact.
view moreRon Washington’s influence has been transformational for years in MLB
Now 71 and third base coach of the Atlanta Braves, Wash smiled and shook his head at the memory of the skinny kid from the Ninth Ward of New Orleans who left home to play baseball 53 years ago.
view moreIndomitable, influential Lori Lyons has made the most of a very modest opportunity
She is a 2023 recipient of the Louisiana Sports Writers Association’s Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism and will be inducted in the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
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