One of the most decorated defensive backs in McNeese State history, Malcolm Bronson officially started his professional career on Wednesday by signing a free-agent contract with the Kansas City Chiefs. (American Press Archives)
By Alex Hickey / American Press
After a frustrating season that was followed by an agonizing wait, Malcolm Bronson’s football career is finally moving forward.
One of the most decorated defensive backs in McNeese State history, Bronson officially started his professional career on
Wednesday by signing a free-agent contract ...
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Cody Glenn pitched seven scoreless innings as LSU beat Alabama 3-0 in the second round of the Southeastern
Conference tournament on Wednesday.
Glenn (7-2) scattered five hits, walked none and struck out two. Nick Rumbelow and Chris Cotton each worked a scoreless inning
o ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sun Belt Conference Commissioner Karl Benson says plans to become a 12-team league are on hold.
Benson, speaking after Wednesday's conclusion of conference meetings in Destin, Fla., says the conference is comfortable with
having an 11-team setup by 2014. He says member ins ...
BATON ROUGE (AP) — LSU and Arkansas will play on what has become its traditional Friday slot in 2013 as the two teams will square off in Tiger Stadium on Nov. 29.The Southeastern Conference announced Wednesday the kickoff for the Tigers and the Razorbacks is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. and the gam ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Star linebacker Brian Urlacher says he's retiring after spending 13 seasons with the Chicago Bears.The eight-time Pro Bowler announced his retirement through social media accounts Wednesday. In a statement, he says "after spending a lot of time this spring thinking about my NFL ...
By Joe Joslin / American Press
Winds continue to plague anglers on Big Lake and the Gulf as the norm has been winds stronger than 20 mph almost every day.
I talked to Capt. Kirk Stansel of Hackberry Rod and Gun about whether they have been able to fish at all as winds Tuesday were near 30 mph. Stansel replied, “We’re ...
By Joe Joslin / American Press
Hello, anglers and outdoor lovers.
This past week was pleasant but windy at times, but did not force us to have any weather-related cancellations.
The McDonald’s Big Splash Tournament did crowd the lake big time on us Friday, but we left the lake last Friday afternoon
and resumed early this ...
Special to the American Press
HOOVER, Ala. — Second-ranked LSU will open play in the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament against Alabama.
The seventh-seeded Crimson Tide (33-24) beat Auburn 6-3 Tuesday in the opening round.
The game will be televised by Cox Sports Television.
LSU will start sophomore left-hander ...
By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
It is hard to tell what is going on with the Swashbucklers, both on the field and off.
A year ago, when the new owners took over, there was life in the old indoor pro team that calls Lake Charles its home.
Excitement in the front office led to changes all over the place. Gone were some of the old ...
By Alex Hickey / American Press
History has not been kind to the top seed at the Southland Conference baseball tournament.
Only twice in the last decade has the
regular-season champion replicated that feat in the tourney, an item
that certainly
gives No. 8 McNeese State (23-29, 10-17) hope as it heads into
today’s 4 p.m ...
BOSTON (AP) — The 50th Super Bowl will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area and the NFL championship will go to Houston the following year.Team owners voted Tuesday for the 49ers' new stadium as host of the 2016 game. That facility in Santa Clara, Calif., is due to open for the 2014 season.Sa ...
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When the season was on the line, Bryce Kingsley came up big.
The freshman right-hander from Barbe
pitched McNeese State into the Southland Conference tournament with an
outstanding performance
against Southeastern Louisiana last Friday.
He allowed just one hit as the Cowboys won when they neede ...
By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
For the second time in three years, tiny Eunice is atop its part of the softball world.
The Lady Bengals claimed their second Division II national junior college championship over the weekend, and they gained sweet
revenge in doing so.
A year ago it was Phoenix College that kept LSU-Eunice from w ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Even as Sean Payton tried to make the best of his one-season bounty banishment from the NFL by spending
time with his children, getting in shape and playing golf, he often compared his punishment to prison time.
He missed his work that much, his players say, adding that hi ...
Vanderbilt and LSU are the favorites to win this week's Southeastern Conference tournament after mowing through regular-season
play with uncommon ease.
The real intrigue, however, is the new single-elimination format in the opening round of the tournament.
Instead of the usual double-elimination ...
By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
Go big or go home.
Actually, the Swashbucklers went big on their return home.
Louisiana gave the ball to beefy back Tenise Eulese with the game, and likely its season, on the line.
At 6-foot and 320 pounds, and with the number 92 on his jersey, Eulese looks nothing like your typical running back.
...
BOSTON (AP) — Where the Super Bowl will celebrate a half-century of existence will be decided this week by NFL owners.
They have two choices for the 50th anniversary game in 2016: the San Francisco Bay Area and South Florida.
The 49ers' new stadium is being built and is
scheduled to open fo ...
By Scooter Hobbs / American Press
Hmmm.
Just a little too convenient, don’t you think?
Conspiracists are checking into it but, even if indeed it turns out to be creative bookkeeping, it appears that no NCAA rules
will have been sidestepped.
LSU didn’t have much to play for when the series began. When the Tigers won t ...
By Scooter Hobbs / American Press
BATON ROUGE — Not quite ready for prime time.
But pretty close.
LSU emptied its bench at Ole Miss in the regular-season finale Saturday, and the mixed bag of replacements put on quite a
show before the Rebels won 11-9.
“That might have been the funnest game I’ve ever been ...
By Alex Hickey / American Press
The back door is still a door.
McNeese State’s season will continue
despite Saturday’s 6-4 loss to Southeastern Louisiana thanks to rival
Lamar, which defeated
Nicholls State 6-5 to assure that the Cowboys will be the eighth
and final seed in next week’s Southland Conference t ...
By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
There is something about a frying pad and fire that has the Swashbucklers hoping not to get burned.
After spending the last three weekends on long road trips, the Bucs are back home, their yearly Contraband exile from the
Lake Charles Civic Center over.
Since leaving town, the Bucs (3-4) have pla ...
By Scooter Hobbs / American Press
BATON ROUGE — This time Raph Rhymes got to take his time while touching them all.
A night after huffing and puffing for an inside-the-park home run, the LSU senior took a more conventional route Friday when
he launched a two-run shot into the left-field bleachers in the bottom of the ei ...
By Alex Hickey / American Press
For the second time in three years, McNeese State’s postseason fate will hinge upon the final day of the regular season.
Thanks to freshman pitcher Bryce Kingsley, the Cowboys have at least regained control of their own destiny.
Kingsley threw a 122-pitch complete game to lead McNeese to a 3 ...
HOUSTON (AP) — Reid Ryan has been introduced as the new president of the Houston Astros.Ryan, the eldest son of Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan, was the CEO of Ryan-Sanders Baseball, which owns the Triple-A Round Rock Express and Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks.The 41-year-old Reid Ryan helped c ...
By Scooter Hobbs / American Press
Well, here we are, tragically, less than four months before the start of the next football season, and yet the NFL has still
not figured out what to do with Tim Tebow.
Let this be another lesson for what happens when you procrastinate.
This should have been taken care of months ago, but now the T ...
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