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It seems like just a year ago that I was interviewing Firmin Simms about his plans to rekindle interest in the Biddy Basketball program he fathered as a supervisor in the New Orleans Recreation Department many years ago.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed life as we have known it and has altered the landscape of sports at every level.

Baseball in New Orleans may return as early as June 1. As Louisiana awaits the approval of Gov. John Bel Edwards to lift the stay-at-home order aimed at combating the COVID-19 pandemic...

When one has spent the better part of the last month living in solitude, reflection comes painfully easy.

If the coronavirus pandemic that has stricken the U.S. this spring is sounding the death knell for American Legion baseball, Sid Parfait isn’t aware of it.

The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus has drastically changed the Louisiana High School Athletic Association’s (LHSAA) plans to acknowledge its centennial year.

St. Augustine has named Nicholas Foster Sr., a former assistant at Edna Karr, as its new head football coach...

As the days pass and the coronavirus continues to run its deadly course through the state and its cities, the prospect of a successful spring sports season...

The next few months may become known as the “Spring of Silence” in the world of sports and entertainment as the coronavirus pandemic runs its course around the globe. 

It has been nine years since St. Augustine last won a state basketball championship.

Let’s take a sentimental journey back in time to an era long forgotten and rarely revisited by those rare individuals who remember.

The state wrestling tournament may be moving its act from Bossier to Baton Rouge, but its presence there will have made a lasting impression on both north and south Louisiana fans of that sport.

The second decade of the new millennium produced a galaxy of stars on the high school basketball courts....

It is now obvious (if it wasn’t before) that the Louisiana High School Athletic Association’s principals, particularly from north Louisiana....

At the annual meeting of the Louisiana High School Athletic Association in Baton Rouge today, high school principals failed to pass any proposal that would .....

Imagine, if you will, a Louisiana High School Athletic Association without the sport of football. If that were to happen, its annual meetings, like the one that taking place on Jan. 31, would be less contentious and polarizing....

By Ron Brocato, Clarion Herald Administrators of elementary and high schools in the Archdiocese of New Orleans are incensed by a series of rule changes proposed by the Louisiana High School Athletic....

The day young Craig Cowand wandered into the De La Salle gymnasium and announced to its head basketball coach Jimmy Dykes, “I want to be your team’s manager,” changed the lives of the coach, his basketball players and young Cowand.

Since being deposed of his position as executive director of the Louisiana High School Athletic Association six years ago, Kenny Henderson.......

As a head baseball coach, Nick Monica, was among the best in the Catholic League. As a defensive coordinator for Jay Roth’s Archbishop Rummel football squad from 2015-18, he had an uncanny ability to position his players where they would be most effective to foil opposing offenses. And as a head football coach, who oversaw the offense while still calling the shots on defense as a first-year head coach, Monica led the Raiders to the 2019 Division I state football championship.