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Super Bowl: Bucket-List Worthy

Rick Sarro February 16, 2017 Comments Off on Super Bowl: Bucket-List Worthy

Our home-state New Orleans Saints don’t have to earn a privileged appearance in the Super Bowl before you consider going to what is, with all due respect to the Daytona 500, the biggest single-day

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Saints-less In The Playoffs

Rick Sarro February 2, 2017 Comments Off on Saints-less In The Playoffs

O Saints, where art thou? It’s another NFL post-season, and the Who Dat nation is quiet. The only Black and Gold in the playoffs is from up North. The Steelers are headed to New

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Supply And Demand

Rick Sarro January 19, 2017 Comments Off on Supply And Demand

Orlando, Fla. — The television broadcast control booth for the Cure Bowl where Arkansas State is about to kick off against Central Florida. The game producer calls for camera one to position a wide

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As The Dynasty Turns

Rick Sarro January 5, 2017 Comments Off on As The Dynasty Turns

Timing is everything. The world moves in cycles. What comes around goes around. Those are everyday clichés that hold a high level of truth in life and especially in the sandbox of sports. With

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A Challenging Season

Rick Sarro December 15, 2016 Comments Off on A Challenging Season

Lance Guidry said it best. “A 6-5 season is not good enough at McNeese.  Just having a winning season is not our goal.” But 6-5 is where the Cowboys ended up after their season-ending

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MCNEESE FOOTBALL ATTENDANCE

Rick Sarro December 1, 2016 Comments Off on MCNEESE FOOTBALL ATTENDANCE

THE MSU GATE GAME BY RICK SARRO It seems like they just kicked off the 2016 McNeese football season, and now it will come to a close in a few short days. Ten games

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Dream Job

Rick Sarro November 18, 2016 Comments Off on Dream Job

He was born and raised in little LaRose, La. He played and coached football across the bayou state; coached with and against the Tigers. So of course head coach of LSU is his dream

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Out Of The Hunt

Rick Sarro November 4, 2016 Comments Off on Out Of The Hunt

You’ve heard it before. A person’s character is best measured not by how they have fallen but by how well they pick themselves up and respond to adversity. That character test will be most

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Quick End For The Mad Hatter

Rick Sarro October 21, 2016 Comments Off on Quick End For The Mad Hatter

Just maybe those blades of grass inside Tiger Stadium have a special flavor. I wouldn’t have thought that until Les Miles plucked a few and gave them a chew. The hat always seemed too

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Just Play The Damn Game

Rick Sarro October 7, 2016 Comments Off on Just Play The Damn Game

Life isn’t as simple as it once was. That goes for college football, too. From 1951 through 1986, McNeese and what was then USL squared off on the football field for 36 straight years,

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