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The number of Louisiana prep championship playoffs is unwieldy causing them to be scheduled at odd times with very few in the stands.

Legendary St. Charles Catholic football coach Frank Monica is retiring, but he has left lasting memories with his success and his colorful ways of expressing himself.

With Drew Brees seemingly headed for retirement, this could be the best chance for a Super Bowl title for the Saints in the near future.

In a radio interview last week, Tulane director of athletics Troy Dannen said the Green Wave no longer had Conference USA talent, but American Athletic Conference talent.

When the NFL made the announcement, it was met with a collective yawn by many.

​​​​​​​If you have had open heart surgery, please welcome me to the club.

​​​​​​​A colleague and I were headed to a pair of high school football workouts last Friday when I had a recollection of a place that seemed so far away.

As he drove down Canal Street, Jesuit High School’s director of athletics Dave Moreau did everything he could to catch every red light.

If you are a Saints fan, you should be really excited about the NFL draft.

Today, the enemy is the coronavirus. Back then, it was polio and smallpox.

I never thought I would feel that way again. It was 1962.

There are late bloomers and then there is Baylor guard Jared Butler.

Since the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scheme was exposed, I have heard a lot of justifications.

Still gloating over that 49ers’ loss to the Chiefs in the Super Bowl?....

It is somehow being portrayed as a negative, but it is anything but. LSU passing game coordinator Joe Brady left to be the new offensive coordinator for the NFL’s Carolina Panthers. Defensive.....

I have never met Daryl Morey, but I am a huge fan. Morey, the general manager of the NBA’s Houston Rockets, had the temerity to tweet out support for the protesters in Hong Kong.

On a Sunday night in New Orleans in January, Bourbon Street looked like the Sunday night before Mardi Gras. The LSU band played, as thousands of Tiger fans were singing and dancing. There was lots of purple and gold interspersed with some Clemson orange.

After a 26-20 overtime playoff loss to Minnesota, the reaction on social media was what you would have expected. The gamut ran from “The referees ripped us off, again” to “It is time for the Saints to move on without Drew Brees.”

On the night Joe Burrow won the Heisman Trophy, there was not a dry eye at the Heisman ceremony or in the state of Louisiana. ​ A quarterback who has completed almost 80% of his passes was on target, again and again. ​He thanked his offensive line by name. ​He thanked head coach Ed Orgeron for “giving me the keys.” ​ He said the Burrow family could never repay Orgeron for the faith he had in Joe. ​ And, he mentioned growing up in southeast Ohio, a place where poverty is still common and opportunity is often lacking. ​Burrow told those in Ohio, that if he could make it, so could they.

Moments after a 37-10 rout of Georgia, the confetti, purple and gold, of course, fell in droves from the roof of Mercedes-Benz Stadium. LSU had defeated yet another college football powerhouse.