Scott Rabalais: On Lane Kiffin, Sam Leavitt, LSU golfers and Brendan Sorsby’s exit BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist Updated Jun 24, 2026 Notes on a golf scorecard while pondering what I might shoot at Shinnecock Hills under this week’s U.S. Open conditions, wishfully thinking I could break 125 (averaging a triple bogey per hole) …
+2 Scott Rabalais: Numerous reasons why City Park golf course deserves to be preserved as is BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist Jun 15, 2026 Public golf in Baton Rouge is under siege.
+2 Scott Rabalais: As an LSU-less CWS begins, a look back at the Tigers’ top 10 wins in Omaha BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist Jun 12, 2026 The College World Series opens Friday, a seemingly diminished edition of college baseball’s version of the midsummer classic since the LSU Tigers aren’t there, at least from a local perspective.
SEC announces windows, networks, some kickoff times for final nine weeks of 2026 football season BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist Updated Jun 11, 2026 The Southeastern Conference on Wednesday evening released the kickoff windows and some kickoff times for the 2026 regular season from Sept. 26 to the end of the season.
LSU golfer from Iceland, 2025 U.S. Open contender Sam Burns heading to Shinnecock Hills BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Staff writer Updated Jun 9, 2026 In the previous 125 U.S. Open golf tournaments, there has never been a player from Iceland in the field.
Scott Rabalais: Radical ruling to make Brendan Sorsby eligible requires radical response BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist Jun 9, 2026 One thing was made abundantly clear Tuesday by Judge Ken Curry’s completely myopic decision Monday to grant a temporary injunction allowing Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby to play this season:
Mondo Duplantis’ pole vault winning streak ends at 40 … and in Stockholm, no less BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist Jun 7, 2026 For the first time in a long time, it wasn’t Mondo Duplantis’ day Sunday.
+3 Scott Rabalais: Love of running, and her late husband Bubba, keeps Pam Begnaud going BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist Jun 7, 2026 Love of running got Pam and her husband Wayne “Bubba” Begnaud competing in half marathons all across the United States.
Scott Rabalais: On NCAA baseball, Brendan Sorsby and killing time until football season BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist Updated Jun 8, 2026 Notes in my baseball scorebook because I certainly have no LSU NCAA Tournament games to put in there. …
Scott Rabalais: Federal legislation is the lesser of two evils facing college athletics BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist Updated Jun 24, 2026 Federal regulation or unchecked spending? Scott Rabalais weighs in on the debate over the Protect College Sports Act that aims to put guardrails on the modern era.
After an epic rally, LSU men’s golf can’t maintain momentum, finishes 12th in NCAAs BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist Updated Jun 2, 2026 The LSU men’s golf team turned on the afterburners Sunday to make the 54-hole cut at the NCAA Championships, with the Tiges putting themselves in position to make a remarkable run into the mat…
+5 Saints’ Kellen Moore, LSU’s Alan Faneca highlight nominees on college hall of fame ballot BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Staff writer Updated Jun 2, 2026 Is it finally Kellen Moore’s time to be enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame? Will LSU great Alan Faneca add a place in the hall in Atlanta to his enshrinement in the Pro Football Ha…
â€Tigers never quit’: Dan Hayes’ 64 keys huge rally as LSU men’s golf stays alive in NCAAs BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist May 31, 2026 Jake Amos didn’t want his LSU Tigers to give up hope, but he also had to be realistic.
SEC commissioner noncommital on LSU coach Lane Kiffin reprimand for Vanity Fair comments BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist Updated May 29, 2026 A report earlier this week said Kiffin might be sanctioned for comments he made in a recent Vanity Fair cover story about Ole Miss.
Scott Rabalais: â€Lane Kiffin Rule’ part of sweeping act aimed at curing college sports’ ills BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist May 27, 2026 The Protect College Sports Act includes a provision that would prohibit coaches from leaving their schools for another coaching position before the season ends.
SEC announces kickoff time, TV information for LSU’s Sept. 12 home game against La. Tech BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist May 27, 2026 MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — The Southeastern Conference revealed more kickoff times and TV assignments Wednesday for early season games.
Scott Rabalais: Lane Kiffin garners major attention amid a weighty SEC spring meeting BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist May 26, 2026 MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — An endless parade of coaches — 10 in all — filed in and out of a small, windowless auditorium Tuesday deep beneath the Sandestin Hilton, the ancestral home of the Southea…
Jon Sumrall says if not allowed to coach Tulane in CFP, he would have turned Florida down BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist Updated May 26, 2026 MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — Jon Sumrall looks back on December while trying to coach Tulane in the College Football Playoff after taking the Florida job this way:
Scott Rabalais: What went wrong for LSU baseball in 2026, and how quickly can it be fixed? BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist Updated May 23, 2026 In a normal season, Memorial Day weekend would find a buzz of anticipation surrounding the LSU baseball team as the Tigers wait to learn of their seeding and destination for the NCAA Tournament.
Scott Rabalais: Ed Orgeron being back at LSU is another only at LSU kind of comeback BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist May 21, 2026 At some point you’ve probably caught a show on a band reunion tour. You know, when the musicians set aside their squabbling and contractual grievances to play together again. They may still no…
Scott Rabalais: You just knew LSU’s Will Wade would get torched for something eventually BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist May 21, 2026 Not to endorse one of those prediction market websites (because they’re just dressed-up gambling sites), but someone missed a chance to make a bundle on the following proposition:
Scott Rabalais: As LSU begins SEC tourney, it would be best to just let this season end BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist Updated May 18, 2026 So, at the end of a cursed and bitterly disappointing baseball season, it has come down to this for LSU, if the reigning College World Series champion even wants a shot at retaining the title:
Scott Rabalais: Amazing catch highlights regional for LSU on way to a super regional BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist May 17, 2026 LSU right fielder Alix Franklin raced back toward the wall, futilely it seemed, trying to chase down a long fly off the bat of Virginia Tech’s Addison Foster.
LSU men’s golf team heads west, looking for change of fortune in NCAA regionals BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist Updated May 17, 2026 The LSU men’s golf team is hoping a change of direction will mean a reversal of fortune from a year ago as the Tigers head to NCAA regional play.
Scott Rabalais: Pressure to survive, advance nothing new for LSU and coach Beth Torina BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist May 15, 2026 There was drama in Sunday’s NCAA softball tournament selection show for LSU.
Scott Rabalais: Lane Kiffin turns up heat between LSU, Ole Miss with Vanity Fair comments BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist May 13, 2026 Back in December when LSU hired Lane Kiffin, I wrote that the “Lane Kiffin Experience may be like nothing ever before.”
LSU women’s golf team aiming to extend NCAA championship streak in Waco regional BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Staff writer May 10, 2026 If there was an NCAA bubble now that the field has been set, the LSU women’s golf team would be right on it.
Scott Rabalais: Kailin Chio’s snub highlights gymnastics’ frequently flawed subjectivity BY SCOTT RABALAIS | Sports columnist Updated May 9, 2026 Kailin Chio was so good this season, fans at LSU home meets started booing judges when the sophomore sensation “only” got a 9.95 or a 9.975 score instead of a perfect 10.