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12:05 a.m. - In a kind of shorthand for baseball stadium names, Jacobs Field in Cleveland became known as “The Jake.” Candlestick Park in San Francisco was often called “The Stick.”
“The Joe” is a common term for Sewell-Thomas Stadium at the University of Alabama.
Alex Box Stadium, named for the former LSU baseball and football player killed in World War II, is typically called “The Box” or “Alex Box.”
To a few people, those names resonate in ways others can never fully grasp.
12:05 a.m. - Back in 2005, Dennis Donnelly hunkered down with evacuated in-laws in his Donaldsonville house to ride out hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
He lost electricity, but Donnelly’s 35-year-old brick veneer house suffered no damage.
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So long, farewell
Saturday was Senior Day at Alex Box Stadium, but one-third of LSU’s batting order acted as if it were Sophomore Day.
Three second-year Tigers did a lot of damage in a 16-4 victory against Mississippi State that extended a number of streaks for LSU and increased its lead in the SEC Western Division.
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Politics for May 11, 2008
A bill to boost tuition for students at LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center breezed through the House Education Committee on Thursday.
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Making progress
Changes long in the works are beginning to take place on a vibrant stretch of Baton Rouge road less than a mile long.
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School system, ABR tense
The recent announcement that Advance Baton Rouge and LSU plan to open two new, small “autonomous” high schools by fall 2009 took top leaders of East Baton Rouge Parish’s school system by surprise and further stressed the already tense relations between the school system and Advance Baton Rouge.
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Mother's Day Memories
Here are some treasured mementos mothers (and children) shared with The Advocate. The memories are published in PDF form.
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Attorney wants settlement for Bibbins
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Facebook adds safeguards
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LSU says goodbye to Alex Box
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685 graduate from Southern
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Pride FD could get state money
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WBRZ weather forecast for May 9
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WBR Museum exhibit features needlework
The trouble with this quilt show is it generates inspiration. And from inspiration comes a messy sewing room — so messy that order may never return.
Romantic comedies are a tricky business. They can be too sweet or not funny enough. There can be no spark between the principal characters. And romantic comedies can easily be one-sided affairs, thus the derisive term, “chick flick.”
Speed Racer is more Toy Story than Days of Thunder. That could be a good thing, but in this case it isn’t. Based on the Japanese anime series created by Tatsuo Yoshida, the frantic, big-screen edition of Speed Racer is, to say the least, cartoonish.
When it comes to the prom, teenagers are teenagers. It's a night of formals and fun, of dancing and delight, of happiness and hope. On that special night, the students of the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired create wonderful memories just like teens everywhere.
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