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Sunday, November 23, 2008
SPORTS BLOG
SEPTEMBER 4, 2007
Sports Blog: Jockeying for position
Virginia Tech and LSU both have reputations for stout defenses while employing offenses with question marks. Both teams matched those reputations in their openers.
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AUGUST 29, 2007
Sports Blog: No big game-eve talk
LSU head football coach Les Miles kicked off the SEC's inaugural edition of weekly coaches' teleconferences for 2007, and there wasn't any bulletin-board material. His Mississippi State counterpart, Sylvester Croom, also kept his comments close to the vest one day before Tigers and Bulldogs open the season in Starkville, Miss.
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FEBRUARY 27, 2007
Sports Blog: What interests you about LSU spring practice?
LSU and Tulane renew their baseball rivalry tonight. Glen Davis and John Brady were at odds Monday about Davis' status for Wednesday's game at Auburn. Yet, the most read sports story on our site today (by a 5-to-1 margin over the No. 2 story) is the first day of LSU spring football practice.
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FEBRUARY 22, 2007
Sports Blog: SI.com profiles LSU assistant Porter
Sports Illustrated's Web site ran a story Monday that profiles LSU running backs coach Larry Porter, who won the Rivals.com National Recruiter of the Year award.
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FEBRUARY 20, 2007
Sports Blog: Memories of once-great rivalry
The LSU-Kentucky game tonight is just another game on the SEC men's basketball schedule, just one of the gazillion hoops games ESPN will show this season. The Tigers' 2007 slide has rendered its annual date with the Wildcats virtually meaningless this season. Divisional play, coupled with the LSU program's up-and-down track since 1993, has sapped the juice out of a once-great rivalry. And that's a shame.
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FEBRUARY 16, 2007
Sports Blog: 3 Tigers cited in SI.com mock draft
Don Banks, who covers the NFL for SI.com, speculates three LSU players will be taken in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft. Banks has JaMarcus Russell going No. 1 to Oakland, LaRon Landry at No. 18 to Cincinnati and Dwayne Bowe at No. 19 to Tennessee.
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FEBRUARY 15, 2007
Sports Blog: Failure in close games seals LSU's fate
“We just can’t seem to make the big plays at the end of games to win,” LSU coach John Brady said after the Tigers' last-second, 71-70 loss at Ole Miss on Wednesday.
This quote sums up the Tigers' struggles perfectly. LSU is 1-5 this season in games where the difference in the final score is one offensive possession (three points or less).
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FEBRUARY 12, 2007
Sports Blog: Houston blogger questions Dorsey's return
The major college football recruiting rush is over. The Pro Bowl is in the books (more on that in a minute). So now the National Football League draft buzz will start to build.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2007
Blog: SEC stays strong in signing-day rankings
As expected, the SEC cleaned up in the signing-day rankings of five recruiting services. Five SEC schools were in all five services' top 10 rankings.
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FEBRUARY 7, 2007
National Signing Day blog
Joseph Barksdale (6-foot-6, 315-pound defensive lineman) is the first signee listed on LSU's official Web site, posted around 8:15 a.m.
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FEBRUARY 6, 2007
LSU, other SEC heavyweights duking it out in recruiting
The SEC is the current hotbed for college football recruiting with six conference schools making their marks among the nation's elite.
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