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LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine announced Aug. 5 that the start of the 2020 prep football season is now scheduled for the second week of October, which would normally be the sixth week of the regular season. 

On a perfect afternoon during an imperfect time in our lives, the city of Kenner and the president/director of the world champion East Bank Little League held a special event on July 25 at Butch Duhe Playground.

LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine told the House Education Committee July 13 that the association never said it would cancel its sports seasons.

No one knows for sure what’s going to happen to high school sports. We can’t move on to Phase 3 of the recovery if the virus continues to spread to our young people.

Nine stadiums will open their gates to American Legion baseball for an eight- to 10-game season over a 19-day period, beginning June 20.

I recall a trip I made with former coach Don Wattigny in 2009 following a tour of his beloved high school, Holy Name of Mary.

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....