Former LSU quarterback Matt Flynn. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Matt Flynn is about to be somebody’s NFL starting quarterback.
He had to wait four years, but that’s OK. He’s done it before. He’s used to it. Flynn is all about patience. He was also in his fifth year at LSU before he got a legitimate chance and he promptly quarterbacke ...
BY ALEX HICKEY / AMERICAN PRESS
Only the future and the unpredictable nature of tournament play will determine whether tonight’s game between McNeese State and Texas-Arlington will be a preview of the Southland Conference championship. However, one thing is certain. The two best teams in the league at this point in time a ...
BY SCOOTER HOBBS / AMERICAN PRESS
McNeese’s baseball team continues its season-opening road trip today, two hours from home, when the Cowboys travel to face LSU. But several McNeese players could see a familiar face in Baton Rouge. Jarred Foster, a dual-sport star at Barbe High School, is making early contributions for the ...
BY WARREN ARCENEAUX / AMERICAN PRESS
SULPHUR — The postseason drought is over for the Sulphur Lady Tors, who beat Terrebonne 54-33 in a Class 5A bi-district game Monday night, its first playoff win since 2002. No. 12 Sulphur (24-7) advances to play at No. 5 Ouachita in the regional round. Ouachita advanced with a 50-36 win over ...
BY RACHEL WHITTAKER / AMERICAN PRESS
Rain pushed the match back two days, but it was worth the wait for St. Louis. The Saints ousted Alexandria 3-0 Monday afternoon in a Division II semifinal game at McNeese State, putting themselves in position to battle for their third straight championship. Top-seeded St. Louis (28-1-4) will play ...
BY JIM GAZZOLO / AMERICAN PRESS
If ever a team needed a fresh start, the Houston Astros are it. Unfortunately for them and their fans, it won’t happen fast enough. The Astros enter spring training like everybody else, with fresh hope. Well, not like everybody else. There is no realistic hope of a championship run. A .500 ...
BY RACHEL WHITTAKER / AMERICAN PRESS
Sulphur has more than just six starters returning to its softball team this season. The Lady Tors are welcoming back their head coach, Julie Mancuso. Mancuso sat out last season to recover from back surgery, and she said watching the team from another viewpoint took some getting used to. She at ...
BY JIM GAZZOLO / AMERICAN PRESS
Let’s get this right. Last week the University of Louisiana-Lafayette signed a deal to play Lamar in the season opener for football next fall. Friday McNeese State did the same to play at Middle Tennessee State. Strange. That means both schools were looking for season openers at the same t ...
SOILEAU — The sounds of Cajun and Zydeco music echoed through the countryside Monday as hundreds of revelers roamed the back
roads of rural All ...
An Iowa businessman wants the chairman of the Lake Charles Planning and Zoning Commission to step down after a controversial
vote involving a planned ...
A weekend of Carnival revelry will come to an end today with several Fat Tuesday parades and chicken runs in the area.
Two parades will make their wa ...
Today’s college and university students have
had opportunities throughout their educational journeys to learn about black history in a way th ...
Matt Flynn is about to be somebody’s NFL starting quarterback.
He had to wait four years, but that’s OK. He’s done it before. He& ...
Only the future and the unpredictable nature of tournament play will determine whether tonight’s game between McNeese State
and Texas-Arlington ...
McNeese’s baseball team continues its season-opening road trip today, two hours from home, when the Cowboys travel to face
LSU. But several Mc ...
SULPHUR — The postseason drought is over for the Sulphur Lady Tors, who beat Terrebonne 54-33 in a Class 5A bi-district game
Monday night, its ...
The Children’s Theatre Company attended the 2012 Louisiana Thespian Festival on Jan. 27-28 on the campus of Northwestern State
University in Na ...“The Hell of ’63,” a 2009 Dutch film, will be presented free by Calcasieu Cinema International at 7 p.m. Feb. 24 in the Central
Sch ...
The McNeese State University Cowboy Marching
Band is one of five university marching bands selected for video performance at the 2012 College Band ...
“Grace and Glorie,” a play that opens at the Lake Charles Little Theater at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24, is a great vehicle for the
two actresses, ...
