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He was 24. The cause of death is suspected to be suicide... Lacy’s death comes months after he was arrested for his alleged involvement in a crash that killed a 78-year-old man in December. A grand jury was scheduled to begin hearing the case on Monday... He was accused of speeding in a 2023 Dodge Charger and crossing the center line in a no-passing zone, causing other drivers to swerve, which led to the death of Herman Hall. Lacy then allegedly fled the scene. “The driver of the Dodge, later identified as 24-year-old Kyren Lacy of Thibodaux, recklessly passed multiple...

Judge Tarvald Smith ruled on Tuesday that LSU cannot interfere with tenured law professor Ken Levy’s employment, including suspension, over the incident. Levy was caught on a recording saying “F*** the governor,” in reference to Landry, and “I couldn’t believe that f***er won,” in reference to Trump.

Vice President Nick Saban?The long and winding road to the presidential election took another twist on Sunday, when President Joe Biden announced that he would not accept the Democratic Nomination for President, choosing instead to focus on the remainder of his term in office. President Biden immediately endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the nomination, ahead of the party’s convention in August. The move led to immediate speculation over whether Vice President Harris would indeed be the party’s nominee and if so, who her running mate would be. The early focus has been on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Arizona Senator...

Louisiana State University is the home of patriots. I know that might rub some people the wrong way, given the rivalries down there, but the pro-Hamas circus is getting on everyone’s nerves. This country is pro-Israel. Most Americans who aren’t Gen Z woke zombies are proud to be American. As the far left has seized campus land to establish what are arguably terror camps that are used to spout pro-Hamas propaganda, it’s threatened graduation ceremonies and daily life. They’re also not peaceful anymore; Columbia University students overran Hamilton Hall and took custodial staff hostage. People have had enough, and at...

The pro-Hamas agitators appear to have met their match in SEC country. As Jim Hoft reported on Thursday, hundreds of Ole Miss students gathered at the Pro-Hamas camp and began singing the National Anthem while also chanting “We want Trump!” Today, it was LSU’s turn to overturn the agitators. As WBRZ reported, protesters gathered on the campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge on Friday to air their grievances against Israel’s defensive actions against Hamas and to demand LSU disclose all of its financial ties to Israeli entities. But footage quickly emerged showing hordes of students hijacking the pro-Hamas...

Monday night’s women’s basketball game between Iowa and LSU was the most watched women’s basketball game ever.Monday night's rematch between @IowaWBB & @LSUwbkb scores as the MOST-WATCHED WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL GAME ON RECORD12.3M viewers Most-watched college basketball game EVER on ESPN platformsMore details to come…#NCAAWBB | #MarchMadness pic.twitter.com/55FU8C1NwD— ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) April 2, 2024How big of a night was it?At 12.3 million viewers, last night's Iowa-LSU game had more viewers than:• Any women's CBB game ever • The 2023 NBA Finals • The 2023 World Series • The 2023 Orange Bowl • The 2023 Big Ten Championship • The 2023...

But underneath the outcry is a certain segment of the world of women’s sports that believes female athletes should only be presented as Cleopatras on a golden chaise: yas queen journalism.

Is there a "sports race war" going on involving Iowa's Caitlin Clark, who just helped her team secure a Final Four berth against LSU on Monday evening? That's the word from Jemele Hill, who has never met an issue she can't somehow turn into a diatribe about "white supremacy."

Caitlin Clark, who is to basketball what Taylor Swift is to pop music and culture, albeit with far more talent, scored 42 points and added 12 assists while leading her Hawkeyes to a 94-87 victory over Angel Reese and the LSU Tigers.

Here’s some chaos for your entertainment pleasure, courtesy of the Sunshine State. The Florida State Seminoles and LSU Tigers squared off in a Sunday night prime time contest in Orlando, helping to kick off the new college football season in style. Those plans started out good, however, things completely collapsed for LSU at the end of the third quarter, eventually leading to them getting blown out in a 45-24 thrashing by the Noles. It was absolutely embarrassing for the Tigers. In fact, it was so embarrassing that LSU fans are hilariously already calling for the firing of head coach Brian...

A lecturer at LSU has been barred from teaching at the university after he left a profanity-laced voicemail to a Louisiana State Senator who voted in favor of a ban on gender-affirming healthcare for children. Professor Marcus Venable is alleged to have left the angry message on the cellphone of Republican State Senator Mike Fesi after he voted yes on House Bill 648. The bill called the 'Stop Harming Our Kids Act' - bans hormone treatments and puberty-blocking drugs, gender-affirming surgeries and other related care for anyone under the age of 18. Fesi justified his position based on the anecdotes...

"Unfortunately, the date suggested is not feasible given the student-athlete calendar and time of year." The Georgia Bulldogs once again will not be coming to the White House to celebrate a national championship. The team announced Tuesday that they are declining President Joe Biden’s invitation to attend “College Athlete Day” scheduled for June 12. An athletic department spokesman told Dawg Nation, “The University of Georgia first received on May 3 an invitation for the Bulldog football team to visit the White House on June 12. ​​Unfortunately, the date suggested is not feasible given the student-athlete calendar and time of year....

The Lady Tigers apparently weren’t interested in a pep talk from First Lady Jill Biden before the NCAA championship game on Sunday. LSU star forward Angel Reese — who called the First Lady’s invitation for Iowa to visit the White House a “joke” — said the team declined to meet with her prior to defeating the Hawkeyes 102-85 in Dallas. “Apparently she was supposed to come to our locker room before the game but we said ‘no,'” Reese said on I Am Athlete’s “Paper Route” show on Tuesday, adding that the team did not directly speak with the First Lady....

LSU forward Angel Reese appeared to be burnt up about the suggestion first lady Jill Biden made about the possibility of inviting Iowa to the White House for its run to the national championship. Usually, the White House celebration is reserved for the winners of championships, and even as a spokesperson for the first lady said Biden meant no respect toward the LSU team, Reese will not accept an apology. "I'm not gonna lie to you, I don't accept the apology because of, you said what you said. ... I said what I said. And like, you can't go back...

Technical foul on the first lady! A spokeswoman for Jill Biden walked back her public invitation Tuesday for the University of Iowa women’s basketball team to visit the White House following their NCAA championship loss to LSU — after Tigers star Angel Reese called the feel-good move a “joke.” “I know we’ll have the champions come to the White House; we always do,” Jill Biden, 71, told an audience in Denver Monday, one day after watching LSU beat Iowa 102-85 for the title in Dallas. “So, we hope LSU will come, but, you know, I’m going to tell Joe I...

Kaivon Washington, 18, was arrested a day after he posted $150,000 bond and was released from jail Thursday on a third-degree rape charge in the Brooks case. Washington was 16 at the time of the alleged 2020 assault, and the victim was 12, but his identity was released because he was arrested at the age of 18. Washington is being held in the Livingston Parish Detention Center.

A coroner confirmed that Madi Brooks died from 'multiple traumatic injuries' when she was hit by a car after allegedly being raped. Two Good Samaritans reportedly stopped to perform CPR on the 19-year-old sophomore LSU student after the collision on January 15. East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner's Office says that they were guided by first responders on the phone in the pouring rain after Madi was hit by the ride-share car. Before the incidents, she was reportedly raped by a 17-year-old boy, who has not been identified, and Kaivon Washingon, 18. Both have been arrested and charged with third-degree rape,...

Alabama tied the game 24-24 on a field goal with 21 seconds remaining in the game. LSU defeats Alabama in OT 32-31 Bama got the ball first in OT and scored a TD and kicked the extra point. LSU got the ball and the QB ran 25 yards for a TD, and then went for the 2 point win, and got it.

Louisiana State University physicists have leveraged quantum information theory techniques to reveal a mechanism for amplifying, or "stimulating," the production of entanglement in the Hawking effect in a controlled manner. Furthermore, these scientists propose a protocol for testing this idea in the laboratory using artificially produced event horizons. These results have been recently published in Physical Review Letters, "Quantum aspects of stimulated Hawking radiation in an analog white-black hole pair," where Ivan Agullo, Anthony J. Brady and Dimitrios Kranas present these ideas and apply them to optical systems containing the analog of a pair white-black hole. Stephen Hawking added more...

It would only require one or two results this weekend – none of them farfetched – for Notre Dame to reach the College Football Playoff for the third time in four seasons, including each of the past two. Maybe Georgia blows out Alabama. Maybe Baylor or Iowa beat Oklahoma State or Michigan. Maybe Cincinnati stumbles. That’s it. That’s all it would take. If it happens, Notre Dame will compete once again in the playoff … only this time without its head coach. It is the latest example of a sport gone mad – with money, with realignment, with championship aspirations,...