Terry Burrows announced his resignation as McNeese State's head baseball coach on Friday. (Michelle Higginbotham / American Press)
By Alex Hickey / American Press
Terry Burrows’ professional playing career took him to Japan, a country where the concept of death over dishonor is still engrained in the culture.
Whether consciously or not, that mindset played out for Burrows in a figurative sense as he pulled the plug on his coaching career, officially st ...
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Tyler Moore and Ty Ross had run-scoring hits with two outs in the ninth to lead LSU to a 3-2 victory over
Alabama Friday in a Southeastern Conference tournament elimination game.
The Tigers (50-9) face Arkansas in the semifinals on Saturday.
They got three straight two-o ...
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — NCAA investigators are planning to interview Miami football player Dyron Dye next week to see if there are discrepancies between what he told them previously and what he wrote in an affidavit in support of a former Hurricanes assistant coach, a person with knowledge o ...
By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
Players old and new found the news of the Swashbucklers’ demise sad.
As current players regrouped Thursday for practice, just hours after hearing the team had folded, they were upset at being
blind-sided but said they know they still have a job to do.
“It was like a big slap in the fa ...
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Arkansas scored the go-ahead run on a squeeze bunt by Tyler Spoon in the eighth inning and tacked on two
more insurance runs in the ninth to beat LSU 4-1 at the Southeastern Conference tournament on Thursday.
Arkansas right-hander Ryne Stanek (9-2) earned the win, giving ...
By Alex Hickey / American Press
The final game of McNeese State’s baseball season ended up being the final game of Terry Burrows’ career as the Cowboys coach.
Burrows stepped down following a 10-3 elimination-round loss to Lamar in the Southland Conference tournament that wrapped
up a 23-31 season. He finished with o ...
By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
It was just two years ago that hopes were sky high.
The Swashbucklers were under new management and there was fresh energy in the franchise.
There were high hopes for the future.
Not even two full seasons later, all seems lost.
On Thursday, when the Swashbucklers closed their doors, the promises ...
Special to the American Press
SUGAR LAND, Texas — Things fizzled fast for McNeese State after a promising start to what ended up being the season’s final
game.
Lamar piled on 10 unanswered runs after the Cowboys led off with three in the top of the first inning for a 10-3 elimination-game victory
at the Southland ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana anglers will get 15 more days to catch red snapper this season than they thought.
Federal regulators had said the season would be
nine to 28 days, depending on the state. But a week before opening, NOAA
Fisheries
announced that the recreational red snapper seas ...
METAIRIE (AP) — New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis says the club has waived defensive end Greg Romeus, a 2011 draft choice who never played because of injuries.The 6-foot-5, 267-pound Romeus took part in offseason practices this week before the club announced the decision to waiv ...
By Jim Gazzolo / American Press
The Louisiana Swashbucklers have walked the plank.
After nine seasons the area’s professional indoor football team called it quits Thursday morning, citing a lack of ticket
sales as the cause for the franchise’s demise.
Saturday’s home finale against Alabama has been postponed. ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Mike Slive sprawls in a comfy arm chair, propping his feet on a coffee table between one massive tome
on Winston Churchill and an even thicker "Encyclopedia of Southern Culture."
He's relaxed and feeling awfully good about the state of the Southeastern Conference.
It ...
Special to the American Press
SUGAR LAND, Texas — Kevin Miller’s three-run home run highlighted a four-run eighth inning and propelled Sam Houston State
to an 8-3 over McNeese State Wednesday in the opening round of the Southland Conference baseball tournament.
“I’m not usually one to get under the
bal ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Longtime Alabama sports talk show host Paul Finebaum is joining ESPN and the SEC Network.ESPN announced Thursday that Finebaum will host a daily radio show from Charlotte, N.C., starting in August. He will also make appearances on other platforms for the network.The SEC ...
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski just couldn't pass on "the ultimate honor" of representing his country again as the U.S. men's national team coach.Krzyzewski is returning as coach through 2016, extending a run that included leading the Americans to two straight Olympic golds whi ...
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 ...
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