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Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth, teems with microscopic life. Tiny organisms dwell on the ice and live inside glaciers, and now, researchers confirm, a rich microbial ecosystem persists underneath the thick ice sheet, where no sunlight has been felt for millions of years. Nearly 4,000 species of microbes inhabit Lake Whillans, which lies beneath 2,625 feet (800 meters) of ice in West Antarctica, researchers report today (Aug. 20) in the journal Nature. These are the first organisms ever retrieved from a subglacial Antarctic lake. "We found not just that things are alive, but that there's an active ecosystem," said...

Alabama's 2013 recruiting class was wrapped up earlier this month, but for Nick Saban it's never too early to start the process of lining up recruits for Alabama's 2017 class. The Crimson Tide hosted a junior day over the weekend, and one of the players who showed up was Dylan Moses out of Baton Rouge, La. Though Moses is not a junior in high school. He's not even in high school yet, but that didn't stop the eighth-grader from picking up a scholarship offer. [Snip] What makes this all a bit crazier is that Alabama isn't even Dylan's first...

A group of Louisiana State University football fans whose admiration for the Tigers is second only to their love for Jesus is outraged after the school digitally erased the tiny crosses they painted on their bare upper chests at a recent football game. LSU officials sent ... The Painted Posse, Christian students who paint... LSU school colors and small crosses ... email about the LSU game... . image to prevent other students from being offended by the weekly Geaux-Mail newsletter. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/10/22/holy-photoshop-lsu-erased-christian-football-fans-crosses/#ixzz2A3glWrWy

There isn’t anything much to report as yet – only that at LSU’s web site there’s an alert bar saying “A bomb threat has been reported on the LSU Campus. Please evacuate as calmy and quickly as possible. Check lsu.edu for updates. LSUEOC”

A bomb threat has been reported on the #LSU campus. Please evacuate the campus as calmly and quickly as possible.

LSU has dismissed Heisman Trophy finalist Tyrann Mathieu from its football program for violating school and team rules. "We extended ourselves personally and professionally to him," LSU coach Les Miles said at a news conference Friday. "He has really improved and has a chance to take some steps as a person.

A college football fan inflicted a horrifying sexual assault on a rival supporter after he passed out in a fast food restaurant following the game. A video taken on a camera phone showed a group of students from Alabama University surround the Louisiana State University student who is slumped over a table passed out, at a Krystal restaurant in New Orleans on January 9.

Link only as per posting guidelines: USA Today Gist of article: Ratings for title game down 8 percent from last year; barely (by 0.3 percent) above all time low; all BCS games down 12 percent from last year

Most of Southern Louisiana is currently covered by rain showers that are headed eastward to New Orleans. The concern should be that by the end of the game tonight severe weather may be over the Superdome. With all the probable drinking and celebrating, this may make for a bad combination. It will not be Chamber of Commerce weather for this event. This weather was on the Texas border this morning, and has been moving Eastward all day...

I know I now, everyone knows that already. But come on, a team that already lost to LCU, at home, gets in over a 1-loss conference champ. It's a farce. And why does the "Big" East get an automatic BCS bowl bid? Are they any better than the MWC? Bah. I hope Alabama wins to make a further mockery of the whole thing.

There is a problem with the Bowl Championship Series, but it’s not the one you probably think. College football doesn’t need a playoff. A traditional playoff system – an eight-team or even four-team bracket – brings nothing in the way of advantages over the current system and probably would make things considerably worse. Don’t tell me the traditional architecture for playoffs is the only – or even most – accurate way to determine a champion. The St. Louis Cardinals just won the World Series under that system despite having fewer wins in the regular season than any other team that...

BATON ROUGE - LSU senior quarterback Jordan Jefferson and other Tigers football players were implicated in a fight outside a Baton Rouge bar near campus early Friday morning, Baton Rouge Police said.Public information officer Sgt. Don Stone said police don't know if Jefferson was a suspect or a victim in the incident, which took place about 2 a.m. Friday at Shady's, 623 E. Boyd, south of campus. The investigation was continuing late Friday evening.Stone said 15 to 20 LSU football players were involved, according to witnesses, but were gone by the time police arrived. Jefferson was recognized but no other...

In the past week, we have witnessed Sarah Palin make the following moves, totally unanticipated by her detractors as well as those of us who are her ardent supporters: She announced the June rollout of a movie reintroducing her from the vantage point of her Alaska Record by a superb filmmaker, Stephen K. Bannon, who has already chronicled Ronald Reagan's single-minded crusade against the Soviet Union in the stunning documentary, "In the Face of Evil; Reagan's War in Word and Deed". She has announced a bus tour that will take her cross country, beginning on the eve of Memorial Day...

A planned American flag burning at LSU ended before it started Wednesday when about 1,000 LSU students and other protestors forced police to intervene. LSU graduate student Benjamin Haas had originally planned to burn an American flag at noon on the Parade Ground to promote his First Amendment rights and to support an LSU student who was arrested last week for stealing and burning a flag. But, when Haas finally arrived to a chaotic scene, he was surrounded by a large crowd yelling obscenities and chanting, “U-S-A” and “Go to hell hippie, go to hell.” Water balloons and bottles were...

HUNDREDS of protesters stopped a far left student from torching the US flag today at LSU. Hundreds showed up to protest the burning of the flag. Here, one guy shows his love of the flag in many forms. (WAFB) The counter protesters were not too happy with the young leftist. Thank you to Brandon for the pic. Hundreds turned out to confront the leftist freak. Hundreds of patriots chucked water balloons and water bottles at a far left student today at LSU before he could torch the US flag. WAFB reported: Several hundred people gathered on the LSU campus today...

HUNDREDS of protesters stopped a far left student from torching the US flag today at LSU. (My apologies to those who don't like to click-thru to another site, but the article has some great pics and video) AND, I'm not affiliated with the site in any way whatsoever.

Benjamin Haas, communication studies graduate student, will burn an American flag tomorrow at noon on the Parade Ground as part of a peaceful protest, according to Cody Wells, Student Government president. Wells said Haas is exercising his First Amendment right to burn the flag. The burning comes nearly a week after Isaac Eslava was taken into custody after cutting down and burning the American flag flying over the War Memorial and stealing the University flag. ___ Sadly, a student has filed a peaceful protest with the university to burn an American flag at noon tomorrow. Please join our Student Body...

An LSU student is now in police custody wanted for damages to the LSU War Memorial and other crimes, according to a spokesman with the school. Isaac Eslava, 23, turned himself into LSU Police Thursday afternoon with the assistance of his attorney. Eslava was arrested for criminal damage to property, arson, theft, resisting an officer and possession of drug paraphernalia.

BATON ROUGE, LA (AP) - The LSU Police Department said it is looking for a 23-year-old student accused of burning the American flag and stealing the LSU flag that fly at the LSU War Memorial. An arrest warrant names Isaac Eslava, who holds both US and Colombian citizenship, as a suspect in the case. [Picture of suspect Isaac Eslava

Conservatives have long told anecdotes about the outrageous behavior of some liberal university professors, but now there is video to prove it. After getting a tip from a Louisiana State University student, a web-based organization called Campus Reform sent a cameraman into Professor Bradley E. Schaefer's freshman Astronomy 1101 class. The course description says the class is about "fundamental principles of the solar system," but on this particular day the topic was U.S. policy on global warming. Students were asked to sit in sections according to what they think the U.S. should do about global warming, with choices including do...