Former LSU quarterback Matt Flynn. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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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 ...
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I’m sure they’re coming up with logical excuses.
But don’t buy them.
Arkansas is up to something, plain and simple.
It didn’t warrant many large headlines Friday, but the Razorbacks announced that this season’s football game with LSU will
be played at the Fayettevil ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas will play its traditional season-ending game against LSU on its Fayetteville campus this year, citing the desire to play in a larger stadium and the need to avoid a three-game road trip.The Razorbacks had played LSU at Little Rock's War Memorial Stadium every ...
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It doesn’t annoy the other conferences quite the way the football six pack does, but the Southeastern Conference is also riding
a streak of three consecutive national championships in baseball.
Remarkably, LSU, which invented college baseball, is responsible for only one of them, the 2009 Co ...
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LSU’s batting order returns, as head coach Paul Mainieri said, “virtually intact.”
But when the Tigers open the season Friday night against Air Force, it will still be shock to most fans’ systems when Mikie
Mahtook isn’t in center field.
“He was one of the grea ...
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With one flick of the wrist on a leaning, in-the-lane floater just before the overtime buzzer, LSU point guard Anthony Hickey
…
Did what, exactly?
To put LSU’s exciting victory Tuesday night over Mississippi State in perspective, you really have to go back to last year.
Or the year ...
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LSU’s baseball team will have one of the youngest starting rotations in the Southeastern Conference this season.
Also, one of the most experienced.
That’s one of the rewards of ending last season with three freshmen as the weekend starting pitchers in the nation’s toughest
baseb ...
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Maybe it’s because there is little else to dicker with on an LSU team that is 10-0 for the first time in 53 years and, this
week, the nation’s unanimous No.1-ranked team across the board.
But the quarterback rotation again dominated head coach Les Miles’ weekly press luncheon Mo ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Big 12 appears to be resigned to losing Missouri.The league issued a statement Friday announcing unanimous approval to accept West Virginia effective July 1. The Mountaineers become the second program to join the Big 12 this month, following TCU.The Big 12 then listed its ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Southeastern Conference says an announcement that Missouri was joining the league was inadvertently posted on the league's Web site and that no agreement has been reached.The announcement dated Oct. 22 was on the site Thursday night, and was reported by outkicktheco ...
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Blame it on today’s hectic-paced, instant-info, social media-driven society. Or maybe simply write it off to too much idle time with a convenient open date before LSU and Alabama square off in the Greatest College Football Armageddon Ever Hyped by Man or Twitter.
Which begets way too much ove ...