McNeese State leading scorer Patrick Richard. (PANKAJ KHADKA / 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 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 ...
BY ALEX HICKEY / AMERICAN PRESS
It may be Mardi Gras weekend, but Rudy Turner and Kevin Hardy were more in the mood to throw a block party on Saturday afternoon at Burton Coliseum. Turner had four blocked shots and Hardy had a monstrous rejection that gave McNeese State a burst of energy on its way to pulling away for a 74-61 w ...
BY ALEX HICKEY / AMERICAN PRESS
And now for something completely different. McNeese State will host Southeast Missouri State of the Ohio Valley Conference at 3 p.m. today in its first-ever appearance in ESPN’s BracketBusters event, providing the Cowboys a nonconference opponent in the middle of the conference schedule. &l ...
BY ALEX HICKEY / AMERICAN PRESS
After some changes and delays, the 2012 McNeese State football schedule is finally here — again. And this time it should stick. The Cowboys will open the season on Sept. 1 at Sun Belt Conference member Middle Tennessee State. The game replaces the game at Texas A&M, which was canceled ...
BY ALEX HICKEY / AMERICAN PRESS
On Wednesday night, CNBC sports business reporter Darren Rovell tweeted the following message to his 182,156 followers: “It’s time to give up D-I basketball, McNeese State, when your crowd looks like this.” Rovell — you can follow him at @darrenrovell if you’re famili ...
BY ALEX HICKEY / AMERICAN PRESS
The weather conditions have been overcast in McNeese State’s final week of workouts before the start of baseball season, and the forecast for 2012 is similarly murky. Gone are star hitters Jace Peterson and Lee Orr, now playing in the San Diego Padres organization. Gone is closer Jordan LeGr ...
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, ...
