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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.

Raise your hand if you had a blast during the first week of February 2010 in Miami? Thought so.

For LSU, the Georgia Bulldogs have always been a litmus test. Earlier this season, LSU coach Ed Orgeron was asked when the Tigers became quarterback Joe Burrow’s team? “The Georgia game,” said Orgeron.

As the first summer without professional baseball in New Orleans since 1992 approaches, here’s more than a hint of optimism: Minor league baseball could return, as early as 2021.